your pattern for the ground represented here on a magnified scale, by pricking holes at regular distances so as to form diagonal lines intersecting each other, as shown in the engraving, and set more or less closely together, according to the thickness of the thread you use.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

It was easy to see, from their parodied gestures, their ringing laughter, the bantering appeals which they exchanged with their comrades, from one end of the hall to the other, that these young clerks did not share the weariness and fatigue of the rest of the spectators, and that they understood very well the art of extracting, for their own private diversion from that which they had under their eyes, a spectacle which made them await the other with patience.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

"Come, you must not think of these things yet, my dear.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

This object, then, to your apprehension, is not identical with any of the sensations that reveal it, nor is it exhausted by all these sensations when they are added together; yet it contains nothing assignable but what they might conceivably reveal.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Allow yourself a minimum of two days to think over these things (you will need quite that amount of time to do so); and cite to yourself in succession our various social conditions, and give them your best attention.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

I was too overwrought to think, yet had to do something to ease the tension.
— from The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

[Pg 53] "When I think of those ten years," said Nora, pacing up and down the length of the room, "having to put up with every unreasonableness!
— from The Canadian Photoplay title of The Land of Promise by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

I don't mean that owing this to yourself should necessitate your continually owing something to your tailor .
— from The College Freshman's Don't Book in the interests of freshmen at large, especially those whose remaining at large uninstructed & unguided appears a worry and a menace to college & university society these remarks and hints are set forth by G. F. E. (A. B.) a sympathizer by George Fullerton Evans

“Now,” said Albert, “that you have seen all my treasures, allow me to offer them to you, unworthy as they are.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The foreigner built your house, after having first procured the site or the lot; they furnish the house with all useful, and necessary, and ornamental furniture; and these very emigrants are yet necessary to keep the house in order; and you come and threaten to turn them out, telling them you can now dispense with their services, and that they are "furriners"!
— from The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. by Hugh Quigley

At every marriage of a czar we seem to read the history of Ahasuerus, or that of Theodosius the Younger.
— from The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia by Voltaire

Bella then observing that the young stranger had got a piece of brown bread in her hand, desired she would let her taste it; but she
— from The Looking-Glass for the Mind; or, Intellectual Mirror by M. (Arnaud) Berquin

The opinions of these veterans, though intrinsically worth more than those of the two young Evelyns, were by no means an equivalent to poor Lucas.
— from Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge