The house is narrow in the extreme, and the secret of its successful renaissance is plenty of windows and light color and mirrors—mirrors—mirrors!
— from The House in Good Taste by Elsie De Wolfe

Nothing is said of the stringed instruments which were used in the hall itself; nor is the enumeration of the instruments in the courtyard complete.]
— from The Shih King, or, Book of Poetry From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 by James Legge

How she served Agamemnon for slaying one of her hinds is told in the story of Troy; [114] how she punished Œneus for omitting a sacrifice to her is narrated in the episode of the Calydonian hunt.
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch

Since that time, in England, there have been more than four hundred and fifty separate acts relating to the traffic, each of them being a vain attempt to improve upon all that had gone before, in the hope, if not in the expectation, of diminishing in some degree the tremendous evils coming from it.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, April 1884, No. 7 by Chautauqua Institution

What time he is not in the easy-chair upstairs, devouring fiction, he is in his buggy on the road.
— from Seth's Brother's Wife: A Study of Life in the Greater New York by Harold Frederic

His friends try to convince him that he is not innocent, that even by the principles of human justice his sufferings are not unmerited.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey

THE U NDECIDED A SPECT OF T ECHNIQUE —I MPORTANCE OF A K NOWLEDGE OF THE A NATOMY OF THE H AND —T HE F UNCTION OF THE T HUMB —I NDIVIDUALITY IN T ECHNIQUE .
— from The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Henry Saint-George