The augmentation (Plate II.), which was specially granted with permission for it to be placed upon the monument to the memory of General Ross, consists of the arm holding the flag of the United States with a broken flag-staff which will be seen both on the shield itself, and as an additional crest.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Than this commingling of the utterly depraved of both sexes, white and black, on such ground, there can be no greater abomination.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Their fortified camp was destroyed, and the few Prætorians who had escaped the fury of the sword were dispersed among the legions, and banished to the frontiers of the empire, where they might be serviceable without again becoming dangerous.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"Dear, dear Norland!" said Marianne, as she wandered alone before the house, on the last evening of their being there; "when shall I cease to regret you!—when learn to feel a home elsewhere!—Oh! happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

As the weather grew warmer it was not sensibly worn away by the water, nor broken up and floated off as in rivers, but, though it was completely melted for half a rod in width about the shore, the middle was merely honeycombed and saturated with water, so that you could put your foot through it when six inches thick; but by the next day evening, perhaps, after a warm rain followed by fog, it would have wholly disappeared, all gone off with the fog, spirited away.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

(He used to call the Countess Lidia Ivanovna, well known in society, a samovar, because she was always bubbling over with excitement.)
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It was a beautiful day, and the faces of the slaves were as bright as the sunshine.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

On him the rays of morning fell To wake the hill they loved so well, And bid unclose those splendid eyes That glittered in his mineral dyes.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

As usual, she was magnificently attired; her neck and hands and arms, her waistband and headgear, shone with jewels; she was accompanied by several of her ladies and two or three soldiers as guard.
— from The Making of a Saint by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Mix with mayonnaise and serve with a border of lettuce leaves.
— from The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

A CERTAIN number of cheques accrued To keep the wolf from the door: The economical Ermyntrude Had charge of the dwindling store, When a Board reported her bridegroom fit As—some expression she didn't permit . . .
— from The Ballad of Ensign Joy by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Stranger still, when a bird is far off, his eyes are like telescopes.
— from The Children's Book of Birds by Olive Thorne Miller

The living god in that shrine was a big snake with a mask tied on—good enough for the pagan; but the Christian would see the strings.
— from The Jesus of History by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

On either side was a broad, comfortable-looking berth.
— from The Submarine Boys and the Middies Or, the Prize Detail at Annapolis by Victor G. Durham

At times she was a steamboat, with loud blowing of the whistle; at other times she was a bear and devoured other children with grunts and growls of great ferocity; at other times, she was a horse of such high mettle and spirit as could only find vent in chewing up the front gate and pawing her mother's geraniums into the earth.
— from Observations of a Retired Veteran by Henry C. Tinsley

This is the grace which enables believers to renounce the pleasures of sin, which are but for a season.
— from A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man Written by Himself, At The Age of Fifty-Four by Noah Davis

Scarcely had they reached the shore when a bear was seen and promptly shot.
— from The Siege and Conquest of the North Pole by George Bryce