Natásha did not follow the golden rule advocated by clever folk, especially by the French, which says that a girl should not let herself go when she marries, should not neglect her accomplishments, should be even more careful of her appearance than when she was unmarried, and should fascinate her husband as much as she did before he became her husband.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Of course, you will receive orders from me direct until such time as General Sherman gets within communicating distance of you.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The man turns to a box of valuables; some things are gone; some, however, are still there.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Her face, thin and not much lined, was of the sort that ages gracefully, so that you thought in youth she must have been a much handsomer woman than in fact she was.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

He also exposed to sight their golden and brazen shields, so that a glorious splendor was sent from them; and when they shouted the mountains echoed again.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

[“The Blacksmith” was the same tune as “Green Sleeves.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Cæsar will not therefore disannul the testament of a man whom he had entirely supported, of his friend and confederate, and that which is committed to him in trust to ratify; nor will Cæsar's virtuous and upright disposition, which is known and uncontested through all the habitable world, imitate the wickedness of these men in condemning a king as a madman, and as having lost his reason, while he hath bequeathed the succession to a good son of his, and to one who flies to Cæsar's upright determination for refuge.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

But he says: “They are good, simple, patriarchal people, glad to see anybody.”
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But then, wi' you, he'll be sae taught, An' get sic fair example straught, I hae na ony fear.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

He discovered that the fossils in rocks, instead of being scattered haphazard, are arranged in regular systems, so that any given stratum of rock is labelled by its fossil population; that the order of succession of such groups of fossils is always the same in any vertical series of strata in which they occur, and The new geology that a fossil, having once disappeared, never reappears in a later stratum.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

For twelve years he worked in various situations, some of the time being "secretary to a gentleman," showing that he had improved his time while
— from Famous Givers and Their Gifts by Sarah Knowles Bolton

These directions apply to average conditions and must be varied to suit the individual instances so that a good starter will be the result.
— from The Book of Cheese by Charles Thom

As it is of course necessary, for clearness of exposition, to take a numerical example, let us suppose that a given statement is made by a witness who, on the whole and in the long run, is right in what he says nine times out of ten.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn

They swore that a great sum could be had for that letter, which they should share between them.
— from Affair in Araby by Talbot Mundy

But he, closing his hands behind him, and bound to the stake as a noble victim selected from the great flock an acceptable sacrifice to Almighty God, said: "Father of thy well-beloved and blessed Son, Jesus Christ, through whom we have received the knowledge of thee, the God of angels and power and all creation, and of all the family of the righteous, that live before thee, I bless thee that thou hast thought me worthy of the present day and hour to have a share in the number of the martyrs and in the cup of Christ, unto the resurrection of eternal life, both of the soul and body, in the incorruptible felicity of the Holy Spirit.
— from Outlines of Ecclesiastical History by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

The outer base and side were constructed of dry willow sticks, twigs and grass stems; the main body of the nest was fine grass stems, rootlets and a few mosses.
— from Birds Found on the Arctic Slope of Northern Alaska by James W. Bee

The passage which Coleridge versified is to be found in the Arcadia :— 'Her breath is more sweet than a gentle south-west wind, which comes creeping over flowing fields and shadowed waters in the heat of summer.' LINENOTES:
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Leaves are porous, and admit air and light more or less freely into their substance; they are generally smooth and even glazed on one surface; they are usually covered on one or both sides with spicula, and they very commonly present one or more acuminated points in their outline—all circumstances which tend to augment their power of emitting heat by reflection or radiation.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh