Having spread the quilt and folded my night-dress, I went to the window-seat to put in order some picture-books and doll’s house furniture scattered there; an abrupt command from Georgiana to let her playthings alone (for the tiny chairs and mirrors, the fairy plates and cups, were her property) stopped my proceedings; and then, for lack of other occupation, I fell to breathing on the frost-flowers with which the window was fretted, and thus clearing a space in the glass through which I might look out on the grounds, where all was still and petrified under the influence of a hard frost.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Thus, in the following sentence b is subordinate to A , and c to Ab : ( c. ) quālis esset nātūra montis , ( b. )
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Parasitism forms the line inside of which our subject begins; for if one can imagine that the parasite, instead of feeding on the animal from whom he draws his subsistence, is content to live on the remains of the other's meals, one will find himself in the presence, not yet of an actual society, but of half the conditions of a society; that is to say, a relation between two beings such that, all antagonism ceasing, one of the two is useful to the other.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It seems, he lived some time as a clerk to a timber-merchant, whose daughter Martin having privately married, was discarded, and his wife turned out of doors.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

For, as the man is ridiculous who says we ought to learn to row but not to steer, so he who allows all other arts to be learnt, but not virtue, seems to act altogether contrary to the Scythians.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Ay, sir, there are a crew of wretched souls That stay his cure.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The Glacier Park Saddle Horse Co. provides excellent small sleeping tents and a complete outfitting of comforts for pack trips.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

But it is in Martial that we are able to sense the abandoned and cynical attitude of the Roman public toward this vice: the epigram upon Cantharus, xi, 46, is an excellent example.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

These men lay still for a while, as in great fear, under their breastplates; but when the tower was shaken, they arose, and Castor did then stretch out his hand, as a petitioner, and called for Caesar, and by his voice moved his compassion, and begged of him to have mercy upon them; and Titus, in the innocency of his heart, believing him to be in earnest, and hoping that the Jews did now repent, stopped the working of the battering ram, and forbade them to shoot at the petitioners, and bid Castor say what he had a mind to say to him.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

In this article, on page 81, we are told that ‘Master John Bunyan, one of your heaven-born geniuses, resided, for some time, upon London Bridge;’ though I cannot discover any such circumstance in either of the lives of that good man now extant, though he certainly [389] preached, for some time, at a Chapel in Southwark.
— from Chronicles of London Bridge by Richard Thompson

She seldom troubled about a chaperon, and would calmly give a lunch at the Carlton without one if she wanted to.
— from December Love by Robert Hichens

‘Let him be once on board,’ he said, ‘and there are enough of us to stand to arms and cover his retreat.’
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

And several started to applaud, and call fur Billy Harden to prosecute.
— from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

Portia The font has failed to change thy cruel soul; Thou art a Christian, Shylock, but in name.
— from The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 by Various

It was hideous that she should sit there smiling tolerantly at a critic of her infernal husband as serenely as a priestess who is patient with an unenlightened skeptic.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

When the people of Pastime got upon the walls, however, the people of Confection were very angry; and one or two of those who could eat the most, and who still kept on eating while they were sick, threw apples and cakes at the people of Pastime, and shot Joujou with sugar-plums, which he picked up and ate, while his people were eating down the plum-cakes, and drinking the wine till they were tipsy.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various