But to give Jims up to a roving, shiftless, irresponsible father, however kind and good-hearted he might be—and she knew Jim Anderson was kind and good-hearted enough—was a bitter prospect to Rilla.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The waters were profoundly dark, but Captain Nemo pointed to a reddish spot in the distance, a sort of wide glow shimmering about two miles from the Nautilus .
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Gold-mine , any profitable investment, from a fried-fish shop to a remunerative speculation involving millions.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The word age in this sense has no reference to the lapse of time—or not necessarily so—but simply refers to the stage at which a people has arrived in its progress towards civilization; thus there are races still in their stone age.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Whereas, failing in her first duty, she hath by that failure failed in all; for whoso, clinging to a rope, severeth it above his hands, must fall; it being no defense to claim that the rest of the rope is sound, neither any deliverance from his peril, as he shall find.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Tabla ang risulta sa iliksiyun, The election ended in a draw.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Then answered Rosalind, still in Ganymede's dress and speaking with his voic--“If you do love Rosalind so near the heart, then when your brother marries Aliena, shall you marry her.”
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

" The whole cogency of such psychology, therefore, lies in the ease with which the hearer, on listening to the analysis, recasts something in his own past after that fashion.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It is at his choice either to lodge his few blocks of precious marble here and there among his masses of brick, and to cut out of the sculptured fragments such new forms as may be necessary for the observance of fixed proportions in the new building; or else to cut the colored stones into thin pieces, of extent sufficient to face the whole surface of the walls, and to adopt a method of construction irregular enough to admit the insertion of fragmentary sculptures; rather with a view of displaying their intrinsic beauty, than of setting them to any regular service in the support of the building.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

The Augustan Reprint Society is a non-profit, scholarly organization, run without overhead expense.
— from An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) by Corbyn Morris

People, who visit President Diaz and cabinet when on land business in Mexico, are likely to be kindly treated and receive such information as his Excellency and associates have to give, but, individually, I have always found it best to get posted from the neighbors or owners.
— from Forty Years Among the Indians A true yet thrilling narrative of the author's experiences among the natives by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones

What the Apostle really states is, that it was in the Divine purpose that through the Church the manifold wisdom of God was to be made known to the angelic powers.
— from Lectures on Bible Revision by Samuel Newth

Transcriber's Note: This extract and the Mundus Foppensis were both included in a book published by the Augustan Reprint Society in 1992, with the title cover as shown below.
— from The Levellers A Dialogue Between Two Young Ladies, Concerning Matrimony, Proposing an Act for Enforcing Marriage, for the Equality of Matches, and Taxing Single Persons by Anonymous

Only once had he strained forward, gazing intently, then again relaxed, settling into his old position.
— from Felix O'Day by Francis Hopkinson Smith

With reference to dogs' tails, no doubt you are aware that a rudimentary stump is regularly inherited by certain breeds of sheep-dogs, and by Manx cats.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

Presently, with a swift, searching glance from a pair of bright eyes and a soft rustle like that made by a new silk petticoat, a lady Squirrel, of the red variety, came down the tree and ran straight into his lap.
— from The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History by Myrtle Reed