The story of the day was rehearsed, with all kinds of ornament and varnishing which might be necessary to heighten its effect; for Sam, like some of our fashionable dilettanti, never allowed a story to lose any of its gilding by passing through his hands.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

He told the Karens that although it was a very good book it was not intended to be worshipped, and they consented to give it to him in exchange for some portions of Scripture in a language they could read.
— from Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines by Henry Charles Moore

The same to Cidi Hamet el Jader Ben Aly Gailan, informing him again that he is expecting four ships of war from the Levant on their way to England; Tangier, 11/21 April, 1667 ibid.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

So actually she sat by him all through that delirious meal, talking quietly to him in easy French, seeing that he was well looked after, mixing the salad-dressing, and even helping him with her own hand.
— from Three John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood

Tammany Hall, in East Fourteenth street, between Irving Place and Third avenue, is a handsome edifice of red brick, with white marble trimmings.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

Amidst all his engagements, Telford found time to make particular inquiry about many poor families formerly known to him in Eskdale, for some of whom he paid house-rent, while he transmitted the means of supplying others with coals, meal, and necessaries, during the severe winter months,—a practice which he continued to the close of his life.
— from The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles

His correspondent, unknown but for these letters except just by name, figures in them as, in truth, a being only too much like himself, seen from one side; reflects his taciturnity, his touchiness, his incredulity except for self-torment.
— from Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays by Walter Pater

The height of the back wall ( fig. 20. ) of this house is eight feet six inches, and that of the front wall is one foot six inches, and its breadth ten feet, inside measure, with an iron curvilinear roof, ( fig. 18. ) of the kind of bar invented by Mr. Loudon , of Bayswater.
— from The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple From its first introduction into Europe to the late improvements of T.A. Knight, esq. by J. C. (John Claudius) Loudon