“You always get younger, Bondarenko,” he said to the rosy-checked, smart-looking quartermaster standing just before him, still youngish looking though doing his second term of service.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It is recorded, in the Madras Census Report, 1901, that “the Nattamāns say they originally settled in South Arcot, and then spread to Tanjore and Trichinopoly, and finally to Madura, and this theory is supported by the fact that they have fifteen exogamous sub-divisions called kānis or fields, which are all named after villages ( e.g. , Ariyalūr, Puththūr) in the first three of these districts.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

“It is safe with me,” said the Outlaw, “so be that this thy scroll produce the sum therein nominated and set
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

We see the oil still preserved in the jugs, the residue of wine still in the amphorae, the figs preserved in jars, the lentils, the barley, the spices in the cupboard; everything awaits our pleasure: the taverns with their “bars”; the ancient guests’ opinion of Mine Host scribbled on the wall, the kitchens with their implements, the boudoirs of milady’s with the cosmetics and perfumes in the compacts.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

'He who, in this world of many, sees that One; he who in this mass of insentiency sees that One Sentient Being; he who in this world of shadow catches that Reality, unto him belongs eternal peace, unto none else, unto none else.'
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

There stood the old soldier, by the window, examining narrowly into the temper of hand-saw and tenor-saw, broad axe and drawing-knife; and as I came up to him, he looked at me from under his black brows, with gruff compassion, and said peevishly— "Fine weapons these for the son of a gentleman!—one bit of steel in the shape of a sword were worth them all."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849 by Various

Wiping the foam from his lip, he solemnly bowed and departed, While in silence the others sat and mused by the fireside, Till Evangeline brought the draught-board out of its corner.
— from The Land of Evangeline: The Authentic Story of Her Country and Her People With Evangeline by H. W. Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When within a few yards of a fixed bridge the sail is rapidly lowered, the forestay tackle cast off and windlass unhitched from the mast, and down comes the mast as gently as possible; the wherry shoots through the bridge, and up go mast and sail the other side.
— from Yachting, Vol. 2 by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

" Elizabeth sprang to her feet without her stick, took one step forward, and gave Anthony a fierce blow on the cheek with her ringed hand.
— from By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson

He sprang to one side in obedience to the instinct of self-preservation.
— from Brothers: The True History of a Fight Against Odds by Horace Annesley Vachell

467 As far on as April 15th, 1903, advices reached this country from Somaliland, telling of successful reconnaissances and bright prospects of success, but two days later, on the 17th, and again on the 23rd of the month, two such severe blows were inflicted on the large British force now in the field as to render a second withdrawal from the country necessary.
— from The Battles of the British Army Being a Popular Account of All the Principal Engagements During the Last Hundred Years by Robert Melvin Blackwood

Her devotion to the Emperor would have made her submit to any sacrifice, she would have given her life for him; and although this separation might break her own heart, she still found consolation in the thought that by this means she would save the one she loved more than all beside from even one cause of distress or anxiety.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

"The greatest miracles were of his working, and still greater miracles doth he even now work; he burst in sunder the oppressor's stronghold, and he burst in sunder the bondsman's yoke.
— from Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

“I am afraid that I have not acted very wisely in putting this boy of ours to the law,” said my father to my mother, as they sat together one summer evening in their little garden, beneath the shade of some tall poplars.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Borrow

In spite, therefore, of signs of variableness, it will be seen that there is a continuous increase of price among certain classes of books which are sure to retain their value, and even to be still more esteemed as time passes.
— from Prices of Books An Inquiry into the Changes in the Price of Books which have occurred in England at different Periods by Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley