They are really endowed with skill not duplicity; in the genuine inclinations of their sex they are not false even when they tell a lie.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It was part of his duty to give her private lessons in the evening, and some article in the Code made it necessary that a respectable, elderly woman should be present at these lessons when the teacher and the taught were of different sexes.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Madam Sabran found means to deprive me of everything I had, even to a ribbon embroidered with silver, with which Madam de Warens had adorned the hilt of my sword; this I regretted more than all the rest; indeed the sword itself would have gone the same way, had I been less obstinately bent on retaining it.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

His china-blue eyes under white eyebrows that jutted out in little horns, never stirred; the long upper lip of his wide mouth, between the fine white whiskers, twitched once or twice; it was easy to see from that anxious rapt expression, whence Soames derived the handicapped look which sometimes came upon his face.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Madam Sabran found means to deprive me of everything I had, even to a ribbon embroidered with silver, with which Madam de Warrens had adorned the hilt of my sword; this I regretted more than all the rest; indeed the sword itself would have gone the same way, had I been less obstinately bent on retaining it.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 02 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

During that night upwards of 200,000 shooting stars, according to a rough estimate, were seen from a single place; and the remarkable observation was made at various localities, widely distributed over North America, that the apparent paths of the shooting stars in the sky, when prolonged backwards, all passed through a point in the constellation Leo: this point of radiation appeared to rotate with the heavens during the eight hours for which the shower was visible.
— from An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites With a List of the Meteorites Represented in the Collection by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Mineralogy

In small plantations hoeing may do; but where the plantations are large and noble, a double-shelving plough should be provided; and when the weeds are got two or three inches high, this must be drawn exactly down the middle of each row by horses with their mouths muzzled, somebody leading the foremost horse; this plough will effectually throw a ridge each way, so that [273] the edge of it will be almost contiguous to the plants on both sides.
— from Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation by James Buckman

But young ladies generally prefer a foil to a rival, even when so very beautiful as she is.”
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Saleh was quite delighted, but we thought any direction would be good for our map and we still had hopes of digging near Meshed, though we began to have fears that a repulse eastward would strengthen the hands of our enemies westward.
— from Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore, Mrs.

The boys turning the pages of the Birds had reached the picture of the American robin redbreast; and the girls turning the pages of the Quadrupeds had reached the picture of the American rabbit; Elizabeth was softly stroking its ears and coat.
— from The Doctor's Christmas Eve by James Lane Allen

Captain Pinkham headed for the tiny bit of planet, let his ship's screens pick it up and relay its presence to the automatic recoil engines, which slammed the Elephant's Child to a stop about twelve feet away from the knobbly slate-gray surface.
— from The Giants From Outer Space by Robert W. Krepps