Mr. Rigg's frog-face was something alien and unaccountable, but notwithstanding this shock to the order of things, there were still the Waules and the rural stock of the Powderells in their pews side by side; brother Samuel's cheek had the same purple round as ever, and the three generations of decent cottagers came as of old with a sense of duty to their betters generally—the smaller children regarding Mr. Casaubon, who wore the black gown and mounted to the highest box, as probably the chief of all betters, and the one most awful if offended.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Hastiado hasta lo sumo, Pepe Rey abandonó estos debates y se dirigió a la sala de periódicos, donde hojeó varias revistas sin encontrar deleite en la lectura; y poco después, pasando de sala en sala, fué a parar sin saber cómo a la del juego.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

What was called Artemis, and Artemisium, was in some places reversed, and expressed by Kir subjoined: hence Themiscir, and Themiscura in Pontus.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

It is not, therefore, to be wondered at that Mr. Jenkinson, in ushering into the House of Commons a bill for regulating the temporary intercourse between the two countries, should preface its introduction by a declaration that similar provisions in former bills had been found to answer every purpose to the commerce of Great Britain, and that it would be prudent to persist in the plan until it should appear whether the American government was likely or not to acquire greater consistency.(1) Several States have endeavored, by separate prohibitions, restrictions, and exclusions, to influence the conduct of that kingdom in this particular, but the want of concert, arising from the want of a general authority and from clashing and dissimilar views in the State, has hitherto frustrated every experiment of the kind, and will continue to do so as long as the same obstacles to a uniformity of measures continue to exist.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

[275] the same qualities as necessary to deacons which St. Paul requires and enumerates in his Epistle to Timothy.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1 by George Thomas Stokes

When I had done dinner, as there remained a little of the salad on the dish, I happened to fix my eyes on some of the {100} smallest particles remaining and examining them in a strong light I thought I realized what had been done and I concluded myself to be a dead man.
— from Italian Prisons St. Angelo; the Piombi; the Vicaria; Prisons of the Roman Inquisition by Arthur Griffiths

Russian, of course, as she is Russian, then French, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Roumanian and English.
— from Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers, Comprising Interviews with Caruso, Farrar, Maurel, Lehmann, and Others by Harriette Brower

At about the twelfth century and after, there was a very large production and sale of books under such headings as chronicles, satires, sermons, works of science and medicine, treatises on style, prose romances and epics in verse.
— from Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by F. Somner (Frederick Somner) Merryweather

From accredited sources of information we glean that the partisans of chain mail passed through this stirring period relying almost entirely if not wholly upon its efficacy; the believers in cuir-bouilli clothed themselves in fanciful garments of that material reinforced by a substratum of banded or other mail; while the advocates of plate essayed various departures of a more or less cumbrous character, which must have proved abortive by reason of their weight and crudity, although containing, as many did, the germs of improvements which, when elaborated, made the armour of later periods so effective.
— from British and Foreign Arms & Armour by Charles Henry Ashdown

Of course there is no such person, really, as Edmund Gray.'
— from The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Walter Besant

It will be seen that she did some work in physics under Professor de la Rive; but she principally rested and enjoyed herself during the stay at Geneva.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3) by George Eliot

Slipping in a fresh sheet he started slowly, pausing, rapt, after each few works.
— from Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Charles Goff Thomson