The stranger, with a comfortable kind of grunt over his pipe, put his legs up on the settle that he had to himself.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

To your mountain, eagle old, Mount, whose brow so white and cold, Kisses the last ray of even!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

He smiled with almost childlike kindliness on hearing me, and I at once begged him to conduct the rehearsal arranged for the morrow.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

And considering that each of them had said something weighty and convincing, Kuzmitchov and Father Christopher both looked serious and cleared their throats simultaneously.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

We can know all those things about physical space which a man born blind might know through other people about the space of sight; but the kind of things which a man born blind could never know about the space of sight we also cannot know about physical space.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

So for coitus, it is but the attrition of an ordinary base entrail, and the excretion of a little vile snivel, with a certain kind of convulsion: according to Hippocrates his opinion.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

There is also another Particular, which may be reckoned among the Blemishes, or rather the false Beauties, of our English Tragedy: I mean those particular Speeches, which are commonly known by the Name of Rants .
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Knowledge is spelt with a capital K. return Footnote 3: 1842.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Hurstwood was sorry when a character, known as Peach Blossom, interrupted her.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

‘Perhaps we had better be walking,’ said Mr. Smauker, consulting a copper timepiece which dwelt at the bottom of a deep watch-pocket, and was raised to the surface by means of a black string, with a copper key at the other end.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Just above the short sands was a cave known as Jingling Geordie's Hole; the "Geordie" is evidently a late interpolation, for earlier mention of the cave gives it as the Jingling Man's Hole.
— from Northumberland Yesterday and To-day by Jean F. (Jean Finlay) Terry

She had a pale, handsome, ungirlish face—a Minerva face—steady, grave, handsome eyes, and a fine head, unadorned, save with a classic knot of black brown hair.
— from Theo: A Sprightly Love Story by Frances Hodgson Burnett

It were easy to fall back on his father's generosity, to live an empty life of indolence; but that would not give him that respect of self which alone could keep him attuned to the harmonies of being, and thus bring him [Pg 239] the longed-for peace of spirit.
— from Cleo The Magnificent; Or, The Muse of the Real: A Novel by Louis Zangwill

[273] Here something still like Eden looks; Honey in woods, juleps in brooks, And flow'rs, whose rich, unrifled sweets With a chaste kiss the cool dew greets, When the toils of the day are done, And the tir'd world sets with the sun.
— from Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Henry Vaughan

John Collins of Myross, the last Irish poet and antiquary of Carbery was an Irish Senachy without any critical knowledge whatsoever.
— from Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898 Childhood, boyhood, manhood; customs, habits and manners of the Irish people; Erinach and Sassenach; Catholic and protestant; Englishman and Irishman; English religion; Irish plunder; social life and prison life; the Fenian movement; Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Sam Williams and Chris Knudson stand staring across at the door )
— from The Americans by Edwin Davies Schoonmaker

That, indeed, she had done before; now she took her stand with a clearer knowledge of the ground and of the way in which the difficulties were to be met.
— from The Letter of Credit by Susan Warner

This is an instrument in which an artificial star is made to record its own transit over the wires of a reticle, while the observer records the same with a chronograph key.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 1, April, 1890 by Various