she was perfect past all parallel— Of any modern female saint's comparison; So far above the cunning powers of hell, Her guardian angel had given up his garrison; Even her minutest motions went as well As those of the best time-piece made by Harrison:
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

CHAPTER III—A FEW MORE LESSONS I rose next morning with a feeling of hopeful exhilaration, in spite of the disappointments already experienced; but I found the dressing of Mary Ann was no light matter, as her abundant hair was to be smeared with pomade, plaited in three long tails, and tied with bows of ribbon: a task my unaccustomed fingers found great difficulty in performing.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Berthe by his side was painting prints.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Shows what party politics will do for a man.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The mother had not been so well pleased, perhaps, had the rival been better looking, younger, more affectionate, warmer-hearted.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Two hours at most,” I answered, “if I succeed in procuring English saffron, which Paracelsus prefers to the Oriental saffron.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

thro a Deep Vallie without a Tree to Shade us Scorching with heat to the men who had killed a pore Deer, I was fatigued my feet with Several blisters & Stuck with prickley pears.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

For this reason, pity or a sympathy with pain produces love, and that because it interests us in the fortunes of others, good or bad, and gives us a secondary sensation correspondent to the primary; in which it has the same influence with love and benevolence.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Fabulous as are most of their legends as to descent, still Scandinavia was probably peopled with hardy races before authentic history commences.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

"Well, then," she said, "wan place, Pat dear, I'll give up.
— from The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys by Gulielma Zollinger

Sleep well, Prince; Pharaoh will receive you to-morrow two hours after sunrise.
— from Morning Star by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

For a pig, or a shoulder of fresh pork, make a dressing without butter, moistened with milk, and seasoned with pepper, [Pg 126] salt, and a good deal of powdered sage.
— from The Young Housekeeper's Friend Revised and Enlarged by Mrs. (Mary Hooker) Cornelius

He saw that she was perfectly placid and at her ease.
— from Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila by Charles King

In a small plant, the superintendent will personally perform the duties here assigned to the assistant superintendent.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 01 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

The little supper was perfectly prepared, and served with a fine claret and some tokayer; the lights burned mellowly in the transparent gourds; the windows were open, the moonlight touched the great gold birds, the silver lilies on the walls.
— from Wanda, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Ouida

The very clever drawing No. 6 is by Richard Doyle; it was published in 1850, and at the close of that year Doyle left Punch owing to Punch's vigorous attack on "Popery"—the Popery scare got hold of the public mind in 1849, and for some while Punch published scathing cartoons against Roman Catholicism.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 17, February 1899, No. 98. by Various

Another and another blow succeeded from the hands of those around him: the blood rushed up into his mouth and throat; but still, with prodigious power, he seized two of those who were assailing him, and dashed them headlong to the ground, exclaiming at the same time, "Ah, traitors!"
— from Henry of Guise; or, The States of Blois (Vol. 3 of 3) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

It may be supposed that such deviations may have originated, in the first instance, either from excessive use, or from disuse, or from the agency of certain conditions promoting or checking growth, as the case may be; but whether or no, it is certain that these variations often persist under different conditions, and that they often retain their distinctive characters side by side with plants presenting the normal average dimensions.
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters