There are thousands upon thousands of coxcombs and charlatans in the world, made up of just such a jumble of wornout, forgotten, and good-for-nothing trash as he was!
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The house is dusted, all things fly into their places, the old coat is exchanged for the new, and they must get up a dinner if they can.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We turned our course back between the island of Cagaian and the port of Cippit, and laid our course east by south in order that we might find the islands of Malucho.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Lank Bildad, as pilot, headed the first watch, and ever and anon, as the old craft deep dived into the green seas, and sent the shivering frost all over her, and the winds howled, and the cordage rang, his steady notes were heard,— “Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

‘But what,’ said Mr Swiveller with a sigh, ‘what is the odds so long as the fire of soul is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather!
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

“Stoop,” he said, so she stooped down, and they went into an inextricable thicket of creepers, leaves and reed grass, which formed an undiscoverable retreat, and which the young man laughingly called “his private room.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

New Jersey argues that Woodrow Wilson is the only candidate who can not only make Democratic success a certainty, but secure the electoral vote of almost every State in the Union.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Nor is it to be imagined, if this obstacle could be surmounted, that the neighboring powers would suffer a revolution to take place which would give to the empire the force and preeminence to which it is entitled.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The face was so big, that one couldn’t focus it or make it a face at all.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

There are only three possible theories of creation.
— from William Blake, the Man by Charles Gardner

In another instant he was at the door of his bedroom, followed by the two officials crowding closely up behind him.
— from The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green

St Thomas, in America, v., 25-6 . Saiustklas (Saiustkas, Saliutlas, Sayonstlas, Sayouslas, Sinselaws, Suislaws), tribe of Chinooks, i., 222-50 ; location, i., 308 ; special mention, i., 250 .
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

A park in Norman and in Early English times was very different in appearance from our parks, whether in town or country.
— from Social Life in England Through the Centuries by H. R. Wilton Hall

No doubt our very audacity helped us through, as for some time they took no notice, evidently thinking we were one of their own chasers returning from sea to take up her station for the day.
— from Derelicts: An Account of Ships Lost at Sea in General Commercial Traffic And a Brief History of Blockade Runners Stranded Along the North Carolina Coast, 1861-1865 by James Sprunt

It is well known that, by the treaty of Campo-Formio, the two belligerent powers made peace at the expense of the Republic of Venice, which had nothing to do with the quarrel in the first instance, and which only interfered at a late period, probably against her own inclination, and impelled by the force of inevitable circumstances.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

The International Committee at Geneva, in one instance, asked for and obtained 2500 seriously wounded French soldiers, supplied their wants, and sent them to their own country.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

The other companies were recruited at large—that is, from Boston.
— from The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace by Frederick Morse Cutler

As a matter of fact, these monuments present all the characteristics of the Mongoloid type of countenance—the small and slightly oblique eyes, the arched but somewhat flattened nose, the pronounced cheekbones and well-covered jaw, the salient chin and full lips slightly depressed at the corners.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero