Fairyland; and the Seeress. —‘Fairies are said to be immortal, and the fairy world is always described as an immaterial place, though I do not think it is the same as the world of the dead.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The walls of all the rooms was plastered, and most had carpets on the floors, and the whole house was whitewashed on the outside.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The little scallops must be carried on round the corner point, as they were on the 3rd, 4th and 5th trebles of the other points.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

would have admitted the legislative assembly of freemen and warriors; and the rude model, which had been sketched in the woods of Germany, 119 might have been polished and improved by the civil wisdom of the Romans.
— 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

On working days she would go to see him at work either at the workshops or at the brick kilns, or at the sheds on the banks of the Irtish.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They were on Union Street, when a quicker step behind, a something of familiar sound, gave her two moments' preparation for the sight of Captain Wentworth.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

For I do not desire, and am not justified in desiring, to cognize this object of my idea, as it exists in itself; for I possess no conceptions sufficient for or task, those of reality, substance, causality, nay, even that of necessity in existence, losing all significance, and becoming merely the signs of conceptions, without content and without applicability, when I attempt to carry them beyond the limits of the world of sense.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The thing itself is cursedly ugly, and the worst of it is that I shall have to face so much more that is ugly before that.
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

He wanted to cry, he wanted to give himself up to despair, he wanted to throw away the tray and all that was on it.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Benneke, in his “Pragmatische Psychologie,” compares the activity of a very busy housewife with that of an unmarried virgin, and thinks the worth of the former to be higher, while the latter accomplishes more by way of “erotic fancies, intrigues, inheritances, winnings in the lottery, and hypochondriac complaints.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

But, of course, neither one of them ever could have been my property, for neither by temperament nor by profession had I ever been given to the accumulation of the wealth of this world.
— from Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove

She would have made earth heaven for a blind lover who, not having eyes for the plainness of her face or the massiveness of her figure, might have drawn nearer and apprehended the wonder of her as a woman; experiencing the wealth of tenderness of which she was capable, the blessed comfort of the shelter of her love, the perfect comprehension of her sympathy, the marvellous joy of winning and wedding her.
— from The Wheels of Time by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

And so the work of development and growth slowly and painfully proceeds from age to age.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 07 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

Still, who could write of sun-dials without choosing to transcribe these words of Lamb's?
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

At first some doubt was expressed as to the wisdom of that Flobert rifle.
— from The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Stewart Edward White

A letter was sent the same day to Betoyne himself, enjoining him to do nothing in the matter opposed to the wish of the commonalty of London 474 ; and another to Betoyne's colleagues informing them of the City's action, and bidding them to exert themselves to the utmost to keep the Staple in England.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

In a reasonable and able manner Mr. Maxwell deals with the following topics:—The Popular Meaning of the Term Socialism—Lord Salisbury on Socialism—Why There is in Many Minds an Antipathy to Socialism—On Some Socialistic Views of Marriage—The Question of Private Property—The Old Political Economy is not the Way of Salvation—Who is My Neighbour?—Progress, and the Condition of the Labourer—Good and Bad Trade: Precarious Employment—All Popular Movements are Helping on Socialism—Modern Literature in Relation to Social Progress—Pruning the Old Theological Tree—The Churches,—Their Socialistic Tendencies—The Future of the Earth in Relation to Human Life—Socialism is Based on Natural Laws of Life—Humanity in the Future—Preludes to Socialism—Forecasts of the Ultimate Form of Society—A Pisgah-top View of the Promised Land.
— from Bygone Scotland: Historical and Social by David Maxwell

Each post became a busy camp of instruction, and the regiments repeated under more favorable circumstances the work of the original camp in Ohio.
— from Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox