Through the varying features and expression of those five faces could be marked a certain steadfastness of chin, underlying surface distinctions, marking a racial stamp, too prehistoric to trace, too remote and permanent to discuss—the very hall-mark and guarantee of the family fortunes.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Some people go to Fontainebleau for cures; I take my own little Beauvais cure here.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Miss Smith, the step at the turning.” H2 anchor CHAPTER X The appearance of the little sitting-room as they entered, was tranquillity itself; Mrs. Bates, deprived of her usual employment, slumbering on one side of the fire, Frank Churchill, at a table near her, most deedily occupied about her spectacles, and Jane Fairfax, standing with her back to them, intent on her pianoforte.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

I have therefore in the first five complete books left him to speak for himself, with the minimum of notes which seemed necessary for the understanding of his text.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

It is of course conceivable (though far from clearly so) that in the last metaphysical resort all these streams of thought may be thought by one universal All-thinker.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The little Anna played about the farm, flitting constantly in to call something to her mother, to fling her arms round her mother's skirts, to be noticed, perhaps caressed, then, forgetting, to slip out again.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The principal sufferer, as was natural, was the overgrown but feeble monarchy whose centre was Spain, which gave up to France Franche Comté and a number of fortified towns in the Spanish Netherlands, thus extending the boundaries of France to the east and northeast.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

bungsud n general term for fish corrals.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The good deacons displayed their capacity for shielding their flock from consorting with "niggers," by availing themselves of a technicality to relet the pew to a member who was not cursed with a dark skin.
— from William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké

The most cautious prudence of conduct, the most undeviating rectitude in those who are by their fortune or rank obnoxious to the tyrant, far from contributing to their security, only mark them out for a more early sacrifice.
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs

It has already been seen, by the extract from Pliny, that Roman ladies preserved their feet from cold by means of cork soles.
— from Cork: Its Origin and Industrial Uses by Gilbert Erwin Stecher

Dolores, who had made it her business to be present at the interview, heard John Stuart Webster say heartily: “The finest thing about a terrible fight, friend Cafferty, is that if it is a worth-while battle, the spoils of victory are exceedingly sweet.
— from Webster—Man's Man by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

134 0 0 Inclosed, and the timber thinned for feeding cattle.
— from An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter

A mother asks you to restore her son, a wife her husband, your cities for the fine arts that have fled from them, the country for citizens, the fields for cultivators, religion for forms of worship, and Nature for beings of which she is worthy.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Sometimes the fierce fellow comes to visit me, but asks only for news of you, and when I say I have none he sits in silence.
— from The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Those who had obtained permission to sojourn in the principal island were again shut up in the peninsula Ducos or the Ile des Pins; fishing was interdicted; every sealed letter confiscated; the right to fetch wood in the forest for cooking food suppressed.
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray

Or we might quote, as decisive, the judgment of Professor Owen, who holds that the earlier examples of each group of creatures severally departed less widely from archetypal generality than the later examples—were severally less unlike the fundamental form common to the group as a whole; and thus constituted a less heterogeneous group of creatures.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 1 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer