On some days, instead of staying at home, he would go for luncheon to a restaurant not far off, to which he had been attracted, some time before, by the excellence of its cookery, but to which he now went only for one of those reasons, at once mystical and absurd, which people call 'romantic'; because this restaurant (which, by the way, still exists) bore the same name as the street in which Odette lived: the Lapérouse.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

I am told by Biddy, that air the writing,” said Joe, repeating the legal turn as if it did him infinite good, “'account of him the said Matthew.'
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Thy beard, by the distinction of grey, white, tawny, and black, hath to my thinking the resemblance of a map of the terrestrial globe or geographical chart.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

So, since these two appeared to be backward, the soldiers sent Lycon the Achaean, Callimachus the Parrhasian, and Agasias the Stymphalian.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

There were seven northern towns, opposite to the middle parts of the Cheerake country, who from the beginning of the unhappy grievances, firmly dissented from the hostile intentions of their suffering and enraged countrymen, and for a considerable time before bore them little good will, on account of some family disputes which occasioned each party to be more favourable to itself than to the other.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Lyell has shown that it is hardly possible to resist the evidence on this head in the case of the several tertiary stages; and every year tends to fill up the blanks between the stages, and to make the proportion between the lost and existing forms more gradual.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The crown of the head from the beak back to the neck, the back of the neck imbracing reather more than half the circumpherence of the neck, the back and tale, are of bluish dark brown; the two outer feathers of the tale have a little dash of white near their tips not percemtible when the tail is foalded.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Had he known he would have stopped, for to board the brig by the help of the tick, though an ingenious idea, had not occurred to him.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

I didn't know these birds, but their fascination must have been considerable, for she tore herself away from them only just in time to get back and dress for dinner.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

I asked, for I was somewhat taken back by the vehemence of the dame's speech.
— from The Coming of the King by Joseph Hocking

[122] What manner of use could the Bible be to an ignorant soul groping its way to truth and holiness, or to a dying sinner hastening to the judgment seat of God, if it were true, that "the Bible's own teaching on the subject is that everything good in any book, person or thing, is inspired?
— from Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

They came in impulses with mightiest enthusiasms, they died out like waves upon the beach; but the power which originated them did not die; it will return in different forms again and again, so long as the love of liberty and the hatred of injustice live in the hearts of men and women.
— from A Spoil of Office: A Story of the Modern West by Hamlin Garland

Laid bâtonné : similar to bâtonné , but the spaces between the distinct lines are filled in with laid lines close together.
— from Chats on Postage Stamps by Frederick John Melville

Each maintained his argument obstinately; and as none of them would yield, the dispute had nearly come to blows, when the least stupid of the four, seeing what was likely to happen, put an end to the brawl by the following advice: "How foolish it is in us," said he, "thus to put ourselves in a passion!
— from The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston

On the next day, when they fought again, the Benjamites beat them; and eighteen thousand of the Israelites were slain, and the rest deserted their camp out of fear of a greater slaughter.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

they don't spare their backs, but they pinch their—” Here Tom upsets a coffee-cup over his white jean trousers, and another young gentleman bursts into a laugh, saying, “By Jove, that's a good 'un!”
— from The Fitz-Boodle Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

Firstly, all the work must be equal in execution to the best by the greatest masters—painting, sculpture, and gilding.’ page 95 p. 95 “‘Agreed.’
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

Lists of questions facilitate the use of the book by the master.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

In one matter in which I was greatly interested, I was so at least five times; but before the close of the year I had cause to say with much pleasure,—“I am glad that I was disappointed.”
— from A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker by Agnes Giberne