The French frigate "Sémiramis," 35, bearing the broad pennon of Admiral Jaurés, and the American chartered steamer "Takiang," carrying a Parrot gun and its crew from the United States corvette "Jamestown," under the command of Lieutenant Pearson, accompanied us.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

I should think anybody could set the constable on you for it."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

In every age the most comprehensive thinkers have found in the religion of their time and country something they could accept, interpreting and illustrating that religion so as to give it depth and universal application.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Manual arts, or handicrafts, as they have for the most part been invented in towns and cities, so they cannot anywhere else be either maintained or amended.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

"And something frightened me—a terrible dream—I thought I saw you—" The actual circumstances seemed to come back to her, and she was silent.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Flowers, as they are cooling, so they cool The head.
— 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

The expert, well satisfied with such acquiescence, changed his tone and continued: “Soon the curate will send for us.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

They almost certainly suppose that Coeur de Lion in his wanderings happened to meet the King of Egypt, as Captain Cook might happen to meet the King of the Cannibal Islands.
— from The New Jerusalem by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The fight came to a close sooner than Colin expected.
— from The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

It now only remains to draw attention to the fact that the effects of the behaviour, as the animal becomes conscious of the performance of the acts concerned, serve to complete and render definite the conscious situation.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

Nidhögg, and the other monsters that gnaw the fruits of the mundane tree, are the volcanic and other violent torrents that are constantly striving to consume or destroy the earth’s foundations.
— from Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous

And of course when two things are completely separate, they can only be brought together by a bond which is mechanical, external, and [Pg 134] accidental to the real nature of both."
— from John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard

The [Pg 321] ships shuddered at their anchorage; cables snapped; three caravels sunk, and the rest were dashed on the beach.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

Pastries, griddle cakes, rich puddings and sauces, candies, and alcoholic beverages must be omitted from the diet as well as the following articles of food: pork, veal, shellfish except oysters, sardines, canned meats and canned fish, highly seasoned and spiced dishes, twice-cooked meats, vinegar, [ Pg 251] pickles, olives, cold slaw, pickled beets, catsup, mustard, coarse fibered vegetables such as cabbage, old onions, old turnips, and cucumbers, strong tea, coffee, or chocolate, rich cream or dishes made entirely of cream.
— from Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. (Fairfax Throckmorton) Proudfit

When she gave him his tea he would have kissed her, but she stiffened slightly and even blushed, so that Abner could see the colour rising in her white neck.
— from The Black Diamond by Francis Brett Young

Strain through a cloth, squeezing the curd dry.
— from Things Mother Used to Make A Collection of Old Time Recipes, Some Nearly One Hundred Years Old and Never Published Before by Lydia Maria Gurney

Hardly had he done so than a change seemed to come over the fierce and threatening crowd.
— from Harley Greenoak's Charge by Bertram Mitford