She had arranged her pillows so as to support her little person in a sitting posture: her hands, placed one within the other, rested quietly on the sheet, with an old-fashioned calm most unchildlike.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

They both had weak eyes, which I had long attributed to their chronically looking in at keyholes, and they were always at hand when not wanted; indeed that was their only reliable quality besides larceny.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

—Se le pasa a las turbinas, o recipientes que giran con gran
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Take of white Sugar six pounds, Spring Water four pounds, clarify them well with the white of an egg, scumming them, then take of ripe Quinces cleansed from the rind and seeds, and cut in four quarters, eight pounds, boil them in the foregoing Syrup till they be tender, then strain the Syrup through a linen cloth, vocata Anglice , Boulter; boil them again to a jelly, adding four ounces of white wine Vinegar towards the end; remove it from the fire, and whilst it is warm put in these following species in powder, Ginger an ounce, white Pepper, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, of each two drams, keep it for use.
— 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

———Tuus o regina quod optas Explorare labor, mihi jussa capescere fas est.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The sponsorship of psychological warfare by one—any one—of the old-line departments might have slowed down the feverish tempo of reorganizations, quarrels, cabals, internal struggles for power and clashes with other Federal agencies which were so characteristic of OWI and its colleague organizations.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Now, somehow, we were on Frederick’s side: the Empress, the French, the Swedes, and the Russians, were leagued against us; and I remember, when the news of the battle of Lissa came even to our remote quarter of Ireland, we considered it as a triumph for the cause of Protestantism, and illuminated and bonfired, and had a sermon at church, and kept the Prussian king’s birthday; on which my uncle would get drunk: as indeed on any other occasion.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

The name and glory of the adjacent Seleucia were forever extinguished; and the only remaining quarter of that Greek colony had resumed, with the Assyrian language and manners, the primitive appellation of Coche.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

There was no longer the dreary waking in the morning to the often reiterated question: “What shall we do with ourselves to-day?”
— from The Laurel Walk by Mrs. Molesworth

[152] '; and never, I think, did we meet after the friend was gone, without the oft repeated query, 'What would Lyell have said to that?'
— from The Coming of Evolution: The Story of a Great Revolution in Science by John W. (John Wesley) Judd

The coachman informed him that a landslip had made the other road quite impassable, at least for twenty-four hours.
— from L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

Therefore before he arrives here in Attica, it is fitting that ye come to our rescue quickly in Boeotia."
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 by Herodotus

The only remaining question is whether John used this mode of reckoning.
— from A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by A. T. Robertson

This is a plain answer to the oft repeated questions.
— from Nuggets of the New Thought: Several Things That Have Helped People by William Walker Atkinson

“The existence of camellias is like that of roses,” quickly added another, whose Christian name of Bonifacio they were in the habit of contracting into Boni .
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

The plan tended to the great advantage of the monasteries; it meant that the likely young men were taken at an impressionable time in their lives out of the narrow rut of cloistral life, and were associated with the world of scholarship and of affairs; and it will be found that a large proportion of those who were sent to Oxford rose quickly to positions of trust in the Convent.
— from William de Colchester, Abbot of Westminster by Ernest Harold Pearce

Without this we can have no hope of entering as a determining force into the living controversies of the age; without this it must be an accident if we are represented at all in the literature of our country; without this we shall lack a point of union to gather up, harmonize, and intensify our scattered forces; without this our bishops must remain separated, and continue to work in random ways; without this the noblest souls will look in vain for something larger and broader than a local charity to make appeal to their generous hearts; without this we shall be able to offer but feeble resistance to the false theories and systems of education which deny to the Church a place in the school; without this the sons of wealthy Catholics will, in ever increasing numbers, be sent to institutions where their faith is undermined; without this we shall vainly hope for such treatment of religious questions and their relations to the issues and needs of the day, as shall arrest public attention and induce Catholics themselves to take at least some little notice of the writings of Catholics; without this in struggles for reform and contests for rights we shall lack the wisdom of best counsel and the courage which skilful leaders inspire.
— from Means and Ends of Education by John Lancaster Spalding

Whether she danced, or talked or rested quietly, she saw Harry Townsend’s face as it had looked at her for a single minute in the gypsy tent.
— from The Automobile Girls at Newport; Or, Watching the Summer Parade by Laura Dent Crane