The court brought them to a churchyard; a paved square court, with a raised bank of earth about breast high, in the middle, enclosed by iron rails.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

in full feather, in best bib and tucker; in harness, at harness; in the saddle, in arms, in battle array, in war paint; up in arms; armed at all points, armed to the teeth, armed cap a pie; sword in hand; booted and spurred.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

By making these as contemptible as possible, some strength is lent to the order of castes.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

She spoke first, inquired how he was, asked him to take a chair, and pretended so cleverly that the poor young fellow, who as yet knew nothing of the language of angry passions, was quite deceived by her apparent indifference, and ready to take offence on his own account.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The latter, all taken up as he was with the wench and his exceeding pleasure and delight in her company, was none the less on his guard and himseeming he heard some scuffling of feet in the dormitory, he set his eye to a crevice and plainly saw the abbot stand hearkening unto him; whereby he understood but too well that the latter must have gotten wind of the wench's presence in his cell and knowing that sore punishment would ensue to him thereof, he was beyond measure chagrined.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

We took a coach, and Patu said to the driver, “To Chaillot.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It would be a mistake to suppose that the periodical press has always been entirely free in the American colonies: an attempt was made to establish something analogous to a censorship and preliminary security.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The very oldest of them, those who are most conversant with divine things, are chosen as priests, so that they may, as it were, live with the gods, and these be worthily served.
— from Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson

In 1814 Fraunhofer strongly suspected the coincidence of the two bright sodium lines with the dark lines in the sun; afterwards Brewster, Foucault, and Miller showed clearly the absolute coincidence; and Professor Stokes in 1852 came to the conclusion that the double line D, whether bright or dark, belonged to the metal sodium, and that it absorbed from light passing through it the very same rays which it is able, when incandescent, to emit.
— from Stargazing: Past and Present by Lockyer, Norman, Sir

Husbands and wives will drive distinct trades, and care and pleasure separately occupy the family.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

Bethink thee: there was the poor archer of the Scottish guard at Les Tournelles, who died with a rope round his neck in the Place de Greve at Paris; there was Chatelard, that accomplished chevalier and poet; Sir John Gordon of Deskford, a young knight as brave as ever rode to battle, and who loved her with his whole heart, yet perished on the scaffold at Aberdeen.
— from Bothwell; or, The Days of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant

Oh, to be with him, toil and care all past, Sleeping, dear mother earth, within thy breast, I, too, could lay my hand in thine, O death, And gladly enter where the weary rest.
— from Verses and Rhymes By the Way by Norah

Sprinkled with dews from the Castalian font, Fain would I re-baptize thee, and confer A purer spirit, and a nobler name.
— from Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

To kill time, and drive away the pangs of remorse, she goes from one house to another, collecting and propagating scandalous tales, to bring others on a level with herself.
— from Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft

All the land they have has been washed down from the mountains, and it would not be strange if trees and cottages and people should one day be washed into the lake together.
— from Letters from Switzerland by Samuel Irenæus Prime

In a green valley of Lancaster, contiguous to that district of factories on which we have already touched, a clear and powerful stream flows through a broad meadow land.
— from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield