The bandage was taken off his eyes and, by the faint light of the burning spirit, Pierre, as in a dream, saw several men standing before him, wearing aprons like the Rhetor’s and holding swords in their hands pointed at his breast.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

We represent also all multiplications of light, which we carry to great distance, and make so sharp as to discern small points and lines.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Petitions were read, and proclamations, patents, and all manner of wordy, repetitious, and wearisome papers relating to the public business; and at last Tom sighed pathetically and murmured to himself, “In what have I offended, that the good God should take me away from the fields and the free air and the sunshine, to shut me up here and make me a king and afflict me so?” Then his poor muddled head nodded a while and presently drooped to his shoulder; and the business of the empire came to a standstill for want of that august factor, the ratifying power.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

On re-entering the shed Prince Andrew lay down on a rug, but he could not sleep.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Sea Slang constitutes the principal charm of a sailor’s “yarn,” and our soldiers and officers have each their peculiar nicknames and terms for things and subjects proper and improper.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

This seems to be the reason why the old order of things makes so poor a figure when confronted with the new, why churches can never reform, why most political changes are made blindly and convulsively.
— from The Republic by Plato

She practiced an easy tolerance.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

They were brought from Rome, the scene of their sufferings, and buried in these secret catacombs by the small church of, perhaps, the immediate converts of St. Paul and the apostles.
— from Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Nathaniel Parker Willis

But on the one hand if this is important it will already have been touched in the adduction of evidence, and on the other hand such points are {164} generally banal and indifferent to the real issue in the case.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

There are those of the two west towers of Durham, western spires at Canterbury, Peterborough, and Ely, all three at Lincoln, and four smaller pinnacles at Norwich.
— from Leadwork, Old and Ornamental and for the most part English by W. R. (William Richard) Lethaby

The year will soon pass away.
— from Highroads of Geography Introductory Book: Round the World with Father by Anonymous

He kept some room in his pocket, however, for some plums; and told the boys that they might carry theirs in their handkerchiefs, or in their caps, if they would take care to have finished before they came within sight of the usher.
— from The Crofton Boys by Harriet Martineau

The First and Second Prizes are awarded between Fredk.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Who of those have 236 not been haunted by the said phantom, at some time or other, if perchance in order to relax the dreary and monotonous hours of a sick chamber, they dared to meet on the road to enjoy a little cheerful conversation?
— from The Military Sketch-Book, Vol. 2 of 2 Reminiscences of seventeen years in the service abroad and at home by William Maginn

The nasals are only slightly pointed anteriorly, and posteriorly they bear short, blunt palatine processes and medial processes in contact with the lateral corners of the ethmoid.
— from Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William Edward Duellman

"I'll try," said Patty, "as far as she'll let me.
— from The Nicest Girl in the School: A Story of School Life by Angela Brazil