"Si une bille devie legerement de la direction que le joueur pretend zlui imprimer, ne l'avez-vous pas vu cent fois la pousser du regard, de la tete et meme des epaules, comme si ces mouvements, purement symboliques, pouvaient rectifier son trajet?
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

El negociante latino-americano acepta el documento a su recibo, un mes después que el vendedor lo ha cobrado, y a su vencimiento, es decir, después de tres meses, paga con otra letra a noventa días vista sobre un banco de Europa.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Very many of the brave —th, who had suffered severely upon both days of action, were still at Brussels in the autumn, recovering of their wounds.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

the rumble of the carts carrying bread to humanity being more important than the Sistine Madonna, or, what’s the saying?… une bêtise dans ce genre.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We need not pause long to observe that the desire for peace may spring up both directly and indirectly; the former may occur either through the return to power of this peaceful character in the party which is essentially in favor of peace; or through the fact that, through the mere change of the formal stimulus of struggle and of peace which is peculiar to all natures, although in different rhythms, the latter comes to the surface and assumes a control which is sanctioned by its own nature alone.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

As I turned the one corner, smoking, Ollendorff turned the other with his bottle to his lips, and between us sat unconscious Ballou deep in a game of “solitaire” with the old greasy cards!
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

The laughter which had sprung up by degrees on all sides completely drowned at last the voice of the speaker, who really seemed worked up into a sort of ecstasy.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was very anxious, but I respected the intense, almost passionate, absorption with which he looked at a butterfly, as though on the bronze sheen of these frail wings, in the white tracings, in the gorgeous markings, he could see other things, an image of something as perishable and defying destruction as these delicate and lifeless tissues displaying a splendour unmarred by death.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The Hexagram, or double triangle of Solomon, is still used by different sects and societies.
— from King Solomon's Goat by George Willard Bartlett

THE VARIOUS DISTURBANCES produced in different individuals and constitutions by smoking have been summed up by Dr. Richardson as follows: "( a )
— from Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele

Compare these two passages:— "Therefore, when she [Cleopatra] was sent unto by divers letters, both from Antonius himself and also from his friends, she made so light of it, and mocked Antonius so much, that she disdained to set forward otherwise, but to take her barge in the river of Cydnus; the poop whereof was of gold, the sails of purple, and the oars of silver, which kept stroke in rowing after the sound of the musick of flutes, bowboys, citherns, viols, and such other instruments as they played upon in the barge.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

I have cause to be grieved, and to melt away in tears, if I had grace to do it (Lord, grant it to me!), to see my Well-beloved's fair face spitted upon by dogs, to see loons pulling the crown off my royal King's head; to see my harlot-mother and my sweet Father agree so ill, that they are going to skail and give up house.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford

We accept, with slight qualifications, his views as summed up by Dr. Clymer in the following passage: "The doctrine of the pretensions of natural equality in intellect, which teaches that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort, is daily contradicted by the experiences of the nursery, schools, universities, and professional careers.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

The building, which is about 400 ft. long and 70 ft. broad, is situated at the north end of the Palace, partially occupying the site of the portion which was so unfortunately burnt down in 1866.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

But still the Basin in general is not like Long Island, swarmed upon by daily and weekly waves of millions, hard put to save even traces of the natural magnificence it once had.
— from The Nation's River: A report on the Potomac From the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Department of the Interior

I made one or two more efforts to hail the Lynher, but the noise I made had now attracted the notice of the natives and I heard their cries in several directions round me; this rendered my situation an unpleasant one for I was worn out, naked, and defenceless: at first I thought to return and rejoin my party, and even turned back for a short distance with this intention, but I found myself too weak for such an undertaking and changed my plans; resolving to remain nearly opposite to the vessel until the morning, and resting my chance of safety upon being discovered from it before the natives found me.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George, Sir

He who first made appearance seemed utterly bowed down with grief, whilst a cloud black as night was visible on his brow.
— from The White Squaw by Mayne Reid

This is too small an estimate; it should undoubtedly be doubled.
— from Operations Upon the Sea: A Study by Edelsheim, Franz, Freiherr von