“Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy home a box of bricks.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

It is to be hoped that travellers will pay more attention to this unique race before it has ceased to exist.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

(the plant and the unhusked rice); Bigas , Tag.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

The delight he had experienced in the work itself, and the consequent greater intimacy with the peasants, the envy he felt of them, of their life, the desire to adopt that life, which had been to him that night not a dream but an intention, the execution of which he had thought out in detail—all this had so transformed his view of the farming of the land as he had managed it, that he could not take his former interest in it, and could not help seeing that unpleasant relation between him and the workpeople which was the foundation of it all.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It is possible that I might have placed them upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Between the chapter-house and the church there is a narrow room, which was the sacristy, and on the south of the chapter-house a building in two stories, the ground floor being the frater-house, where the monks retired after meals to converse, the upper room being the dortor, or dormitory, where they slept.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

But notwithstanding that this distinction be thus universally received, both in the active speculative scenes of life, I shall not scruple to pronounce, that it is, at bottom, erroneous, at least, superficial.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

No, no.’ When Sir Mulberry found coherent words to utter, Ralph bent forward with his hand to his ear, and a face as calm as if its every line of sternness had been cast in iron.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

This little volume comes to us recommended by the same neatness of mechanical execution which was displayed in the last edition of the poetical remains of the lamented Brainard , published in the same city.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 3, September 1843 by Various

In their delight at seeing her again, all were ready to give themselves up to unrestrained rejoicing, but the Princess checked their merriment.
— from The King of Root Valley and his curious daughter by Robert Reinick

The undersigned respectfully beg that you will obtain the promotion of Sheridan.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1 by Philip Henry Sheridan

I have never approved of the very public manner in which some of our western friends have conducted what they call the underground railroad, but which I think, by their open declarations, has been made most emphatically the upper-ground railroad.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

The undulating region between Callander and Doune, on the north side of the Teith.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

A great many of the tenements had shop-fronts; but they were fast closed, and mouldering away: only the upper rooms being inhabited.
— from Oliver Twist, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Charles Dickens

Exceptions were necessarily made to this universal rule, but they were rare.
— from The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-Speaking People by John R. (John Randolph) Dos Passos