He suggested to her how to tuck in the upper edge of her bodice, so as to make it roughly approximate to the cut for evening wear; and when she had done this, and the pendant to the necklace hung isolated amid the whiteness of her throat, as it was designed to do, he stepped back to survey her.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Amongst the various reasons which tend to render the existing Union useful to the Americans, two principal causes are peculiarly evident to the observer.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The juice of the herb and root, or the decoction thereof, taken with some Venice treacle, and the person laid to sweat, expels any venom or poison, or the plague, fever, or other contagious diseases, as pox, measles, &c. for it is an ingredient in all antidotes or counter poisons.
— 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

Along this line are situated the remainder of Caria, Ionians, Æolians, Troy, and the parts about Cyzicus and Byzantium.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The whole evening the comic actor’s dressing-room was besieged by men coming to admire the present; the dressing-room was filled with the hum of enthusiasm and laughter like the neighing of horses.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[Pg 110] first one thing and another thing and then preserving the things that happen to succeed.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

He summarised the vices of many capitals and seemed inclined to award the palm to Berlin.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

The vendors put on permanent record their treasured family tradition and the purchaser got a root of title, which might be of value to him in case of re-sale.
— from Sheffield and its Environs 13th to the 17th century A descriptive catalogue of land charters and other documents forming the Brooke Taylor collection by T. Walter (Thomas Walter) Hall

He wishes through your body to thank all the pioneers, teachers and Bahá’ís who helped achieve this great victory.
— from Messages to Canada by Effendi Shoghi

Nathos is overlord now of a country greater in extent than all the province of Uladh over which Concobar is king.
— from The Laughter of Peterkin: A retelling of old tales of the Celtic Wonderworld by William Sharp

The seeker and the student find all those attempts to perpetuate the memory or the aspirations of men, now on the burning sands of the desert, now decked in the foliage and wealth of Nature, aggressively reasserting her empire, now in the naked summits of the uplifted mountains—yea, the seeker finds them all; but he knows not whether they be expressions of human pride anxious to survive the life of the body, or whether they be witnesses of servile flattery paying tribute to the mighty, or the grateful offering of nations to their heroes and their benefactors, or the emblem of some dim forgotten religion, whose very rites are as unintelligible to living men as is the mystic power which once gave them force.
— from Down the Orinoco in a Canoe by Santiago Pérez Triana

As our young noblemen will, they accepted their popularity very affably.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

The leading portion of the adult inmates, they whose presence imparts the greatest peculiarity and the fraternal tone to the household, believe that an improved state of existence would be developed in Association, and are therefore anxious to promote it.
— from Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman

When the young lord had heard this news, he got up into the cart, and began to address the people, seeking to persuade them no longer to believe in witchcraft, now that they had seen what it really was.
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Wilhelm Meinhold

Up, up into the darkness of the vaulted roof he passed, and then a yawning hole above their heads, which looked too small to admit the passage of the slab upon which they stood, swallowed them up, and they found themselves passing upwards through a shaft which only just admitted the block upon which they stood.
— from In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green

What could the Psalmist mean in the immortal passage? Three-score-and-ten, at the present day, is the period of romantic passions.
— from Lothair by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

[610] On their left hand the Aventine, they wound About the Cœlian by its base; traversed A droop of hollow to the Palatine; Over the gentle undulation named Velia next passing (where, ere many years, The arch of Titus would erect its pride To glory over Jerusalem destroyed!); Hence down the Sacred Way into the famed Forum, where stood that milestone golden called Which rayed out roads to all the provinces, And was as if the navel of the world.
— from The Epic of Paul by William Cleaver Wilkinson