Simmer until vegetables are soft.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The scenes which now surround us, vast and sublime as they are, are not such as can best contribute to this work.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

[6] Sepa Ud. V ARIANTS : Sepa ; debe Ud. saber ; es bueno que sepa .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

There was a walk in Père Jerome's little garden, of which we have not spoken, off on the right side of the cottage, with his chamber window at one end, a few old and twisted, but blossom-laden, crape-myrtles on either hand, now and then a rose of some unpretending variety and some bunches of rue, and at the other end a shrine, in whose blue niche stood [Pg 100] a small figure of Mary, with folded hands and uplifted eyes.
— from Madame Delphine by George Washington Cable

It was not until long after midnight that he relaxed his straining, uneasy vigil, and stretched himself to unvexed sleep.
— from The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

There was a walk in Père Jerome's little garden, of which we have not spoken, off on the right side of the cottage, with his chamber window at one end, a few old and twisted, but blossom-laden, crape-myrtles on either hand, now and then a rose of some unpretending variety and some bunches of rue, and at the other end a shrine, in whose blue niche stood a small figure of Mary, with folded hands and uplifted eyes.
— from Old Creole Days: A Story of Creole Life by George Washington Cable

TO DETERMINE HEIGHTS OF OBJECTS By Shadows Set up vertically a stick of known length, and measure the length of its shadow upon a horizontal or other plane; measure also the length of the shadow thrown by the object whose height is required.
— from Getting Gold: A Practical Treatise for Prospectors, Miners and Students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Francis) Johnson

In der Handen die Fiedel, Spielte umglüht vom Abendschein, Sich ein feuriges Liedel.”
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

There seemed to play around the beautiful, intellectual face a bright, superficial, unconscious vivacity; and she herself appeared to take a quite infantine interest in the cheerful trivialities around her.
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black

Alastair had begun to croon, in a drowsy, yet strained, uncertain voice, a snatch of fisher-lore.
— from Pharais; and, The Mountain Lovers by William Sharp

It was sometimes under Venice and sometimes under the patriarch till 1420.
— from The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson