The old man crumbled up some bread in a cup, stirred it with the handle of a spoon, poured water on it from the dipper, broke up some more bread, and having seasoned it with salt, he turned to the east to say his prayer.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There are four parts to any crypto message: the original message, called the "cleartext."
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Some insisted she was making for Corsica, others the Island of Elba; bets were offered to any amount that she was bound for Spain; while Africa was positively reported by many persons as her intended course; but no one thought of Monte Cristo.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Here, after stress of weather, or a temporary drubbing at the hands of their vindictive foes, or in swift flight with golden booty, those old marauders came, and lay snugly out of all harm's reach.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

“Ho, ho!” said the old man, casting his eyes on her rounded figure.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And as they reached the door the old mother came with the sunset falling fair on her face, and lighting up her deep, patient eyes, while her lips, trembling with the rich music of her heart, bade her husband and son welcome to their home.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The old man caught his thought and invented the "rock maple crystal," and before that patent expired he had ninety thousand dollars and had built a beautiful palace on the site of that tree.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

But when in order to compose drops of Rain they begin to coalesce and constitute Globules of all intermediate [Pg 254] sizes, those Globules, when they become of convenient size to reflect some Colours and transmit others, may constitute Clouds of various Colours according to their sizes.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Take of Myrobalans, Chebs, Bellericks, Inds and Emblicks, Nutmegs, of each five drams, Water-cress seeds, Asarabacca roots, Persian Origanum, or else Dittany of Crete, black Pepper, Olibanum, Ammi, Ginger, Tamarisk, Indian Nard, Squinanth, Cypress roots of each half an ounce, filings of steel prepared with Vinegar twenty drams, let the Myrobalans be roasted with fresh butter, let the rest, being powdered, be sprinkled with oil of sweet Almonds, then add Musk one dram, and with their treble weight in Honey, make it into an electuary according to art.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

It was all the old man could say.
— from Rod of the Lone Patrol by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

On the left hand is the original main channel, which takes a great bend outwards towards Hedsor before curving back to pass under the shadow of the Cliefden woods.
— from Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial by Various

What a magnificent success your lecture seems to have been, as I judge from the reports in the "Standard" and "Daily News", and more especially from the accounts given me by three of my children.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

Dear Sir :—With your favor of the 20th instant I received the volume of pamphlets containing that of Mr. Charles Pinckney, for which I am indebted to your obliging researches.
— from The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught by Charles C. Nott

Anthracite coal mine American mine shafts are generally rectangular and are divided into two or more compartments.
— from The Mentor: The Story of Coal, vol. 6, Num. 6, Serial No. 154, May 1, 1918 by Charles Fitzhugh Talman

“Allow me to order my carriage?”
— from Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas

In the kindred field of the drama the general English idea of the American stage is based chiefly on acquaintance with that noisy type of "musical comedy" of which so many specimens have in recent years been brought to England from the other side of the Atlantic.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson