The sorrowful story had been tacitly avoided by both, and Robert was as ignorant of the unhappy history of this one year in his schoolfellow's life as if they had never lived together in friendly companionship in those snug Temple chambers.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The decoction of the bran of Wheat or barley, is of good use to bathe those places that are bursten by a rupture; and the said bran boiled in good vinegar, and applied to swollen breasts, helps them, and stays all inflamations.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

For some days Holmes came and went at all hours in this attire, but beyond a remark that his time was spent at Hampstead, and that it was not wasted, I knew nothing of what he was doing.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I met with a very pretty and original motive in a German museum (at Lindau) which was hexagonal in form, pieces of glass fitted together by leads forming a globe-like body to hold the light, and terminating above in a neck, from which it hung to a bracket by a ring.
— from The Bases of Design by Walter Crane

Then you take a big breath and raise your eyes to the face of the glacier.
— from Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

Peter Goelet advertised lead pencils for sale in New York in 1786, with india rubbers, and as early as 1740 they were offered among booksellers' wares in Boston for threepence apiece, both black and red lead.
— from Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

Each evening from mid-June until Labor Day a program is presented at the administration building by a ranger or archeologist of the monument staff.
— from Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico by Kittridge A. Wing

The other, the Court of the Alberca ( B B ), at right angles to the former, is plainer and probably earlier.
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

My eyelids dropped in agony, I could not lift them again, but blue and red lights seemed to dance within them.
— from Clara Vaughan, Volume 2 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

" Accordingly the saddles were taken off, the rugs folded and secured on the animals' backs by a rope passed round them, and then the boys again took their seats.
— from Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimea by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

[287] When Deborah recognized him, her manner was so warmly and frankly grateful to her protector that the Arab became bewildered, and reversed his thoughts.
— from Deborah: A tale of the times of Judas Maccabaeus by James M. (James Meeker) Ludlow

If the attempt be blamed as rebellion against the law, the correctness of the condemnation cannot be disputed.
— from Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing

Instead of being ready to fight for our lives, we're talking about baking bread and rolls.
— from A Grandpa's Notebook Ideas, Models, Stories and Memoirs to Encourage Intergenerational Outreach and Communication by Meyer Moldeven