There was not a blade of grass to be seen in the paths, or a weed in the flower-beds; no fine lady ever trained and watered her geraniums, her cacti, and her rhododendrons, in her porcelain jardinière with more pains than this hitherto unseen gardener bestowed upon his little enclosure.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

receive, do the honors, usher, greet, hail, bid welcome; welcome, welcome with open arms; shake hands; hold out the hand, press the hand, squeeze the hand, press the flesh; bid Godspeed; speed the parting guest; cheer, serenade.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

"Father," said Tom, one evening near the end of the holidays, "uncle Glegg says Lawyer Wakem is going to send his son to Mr. Stelling.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

In considering a few puzzles concerning clocks and watches, and the times recorded by their hands under given conditions, it is well that a particular convention should always be kept in mind.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

In the expedition to the Helder, in 1799, he acted as A.D.C. to his uncle, Gen. d’Oyly.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

But about a year ago, something had occurred which induced Tom to test his uncle Glegg's friendly disposition.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

My son, go call our kith and kin To help us get our harvest in.'
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Then the drums began to roll, at first slowly, then with a rumble that became ever faster and louder; at this signal the Muscovite officer gave orders to lock up the Count and the jockeys in the hall, under guard, but to take the gentry out into the yard, where the other company was stationed.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord!
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

The same day he issued the following order to the commanding officers of the several posts and islands: “Sir, you will send immediately to these headquarters, under guard, all able-bodied negroes capable of bearing arms within your lines.”
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

[3] The heat upset G. and we have been fighting off sickness for a week, I getting wild with loss of sleep.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss

We were looking forward to the pleasures of summer and to a buffalo hunt which we had promised ourselves, when, after finding the heat unusually great at night, on rising in the morning, loud cracks in the ice were heard, and we discovered that a thaw had commenced.
— from The Story of Nelson also "The Grateful Indian", "The Boatswain's Son" by William Henry Giles Kingston

Though this be an ideal, yet everyone gives it from time to time a partial embodiment when he practises useful arts, when his passions happily lead him to enlightenment, or when his fancy breeds visions pertinent to his ultimate good.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The elephant was chained up, and whenever the child in its creeping about came to the end of the elephant's tether, he used gently to draw it back again with his trunk.
— from Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes

There was no trail through, but the country looked open and favorable, and as our host had been kind to us and manifested quite a desire to have us go through, after receiving his directions and locating the points where the country showed best, we started out.
— from Forty Years Among the Indians A true yet thrilling narrative of the author's experiences among the natives by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones

{66} CHAPTER III EARLY MEDIÆVAL DESIGN T HE unequalled grandeur of the Empire as it endured from 50 B. C. to about 350 A. D. is most strongly felt when we think of the Pax Romana—that Roman peace which forbade armed conflicts in the Mediterranean lands in which war had been the rule.
— from How to judge architecture: a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings by Russell Sturgis

The old notion that a wizard or a witch so became by a nefarious bargain with the enemy of man, and by a surrender of his soul to his ultimate grasp, although still held in many a nook of our western valleys, and by the crooning dame at her solitary hearth, appears to have been exchanged in my hamlet of Holacombe (for such is its name) for a persuasion that these choosers of the slain inherit their faculty from their birth.
— from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by Robert Stephen Hawker