This gave me a reason for improving by private study the superficial general instruction on every subject which is given at school, and I thus acquired the valuable knowledge which I was destined to have in later life of most of the branches of learning so uninterestingly taught in class.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Dandoins stands with folded arms, and what look of indifference and disdainful garrison-air a man can, while the heart is like leaping out of him.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

To him, it looked like something unutterably horrible and cruel, because, poor, ignorant black soul!
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

We are certainly on an island, for I went as high as I could this morning, and saw the sea reaching all round it to the horizon; it lies low, but towards the middle I saw smoke rising from out of a thick forest of trees.'
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Siksíkun ang mga lusà sa dì pa manguyamad, Pick out the nits before they hatch into little lice.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Halbfertigware semi-manufactured goods Halbfertigwaren goods in process Halbfertigwaren unfinished goods halbfett semi-bold halbgefertigt semi-fabricated halbjährlich half-yearly halbjährlich semi-annual halbjährliche Zinsen semi-annual interest Halbmesser radius halbmonatlich semi-monthly halbtags arbeiten work part-time Halbzeit half time Hälfte moiety Halo-Effekt halo-effect halten hold halten keep halten Sie Ihr Geld bereit have your money ready halten; stoppen; Halteplatz halt halten; Unterhalt keep Haltung attitude Handarbeit manual operation Handarbeit manual work handbedruckt handprinted Handbuch handbook Handbuch manual Handel commerce Handel dealing Handel im großen; in großem Umfang large-scale trading Handel in Aktien dealing in stocks Handel in kleinen Mengen odd trading Handel in Luxusgütern luxory trade Handel in Obligationen dealing in bonds Handel und Industrie trade and industry Handel zwischen zwei
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Then higher is Lither lane, turning also to the field, lately replenished with houses built, and so to the bar.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

On pleasant knolls, under trees, and by the banks of Yarrow, many lines were written; and trotting quietly over the hills in later life he said to Lockhart, his son-in-law, “Oh, man, I had many a grand gallop among these bracs when I was thinking of ‘Marmion.’
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Black, very long and slender; head with a whitish transverse mark in front of the face, which is very short; 3rd joint of the antennæ elongate-conical, more than twice the length of the 2nd; arista rather short, stout towards the base; thorax attenuated in front; abdomen more than twice the length of the thorax, broadest in the middle, subclavate to half its length, lanceolate from thence to the tip, two cinereous bands on the basal half; legs long; hind femora whitish at the base, reddish at the tips; fore tarsi white, with black tips; wings grey, slightly blackish at the tips, and with two blackish bands, the second broader and more complete than the first; veins black; cubital vein and præbrachial vein slightly converging towards the tip of the wing; discal transverse vein straight, oblique, parted by less than its length from the border, and by more than thrice its length from the præbrachial transverse.
— from Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4 Zoology by Linnean Society of London

Soon he saw the house itself, looming large and white between the trees; he saw the latticed windows, which he had often pictured to himself in the depths of the African wilderness; he saw the cupola of the Arab temple, which his father, Amer, had erected; he saw the walls of the courtyard; he cast one glance at the blue sea, and the spot consecrated by happy associations, where his father and kinsmen had often sat, gazing upon the sea; and then burst through the door of the courtyard, dashed breathlessly across it, and through the great carved door of the mansion, up the stairs, and into the harem, where he saw a woman seated on the divan, near the lattice, looking out.
— from My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave: A Story of Central Africa by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

"Just get onto that house; it looks like a mission-style switch engine.
— from The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

Neither ought we to hesitate in learning lessons from our adversaries when it is possible to do so.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various