He sat beside her in that traveling cabin with its cot, its stool, its active little electric radiator, and its quite unexplained calendar, displaying a girl eating cherries, and the name of an enterprising grocer.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

and I talked it over on our journey, but neither of us could devise a satisfactory reason for this new development.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Miss La Creevy, too, arrived with two bandboxes (whereof the bottoms fell out as they were handed from the coach) and something in a newspaper, which a gentleman had sat upon, coming down, and which was obliged to be ironed again, before it was fit for service.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The Waterloo historian (Siborne) gives the following:—“A party of horse artillery proceeded under Capt. Dansey along the Charleroi road, to the front of the centre of the Anglo-allied line, and came into action with rockets near the farm of La Haye Sainte, leaving its two guns in the rear under Lt. Wright.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

The Words Spoken By God And Concerning God, Both Are Called Gods Word In Scripture Again, if we say the Word of God, or of Man, it may bee understood sometimes of the Speaker, (as the words that God hath spoken, or that a Man hath spoken): In which sense, when we say, the Gospel of St. Matthew, we understand St. Matthew to be the Writer of it: and sometimes of the Subject: In which sense, when we read in the Bible, "The words of the days of the Kings of Israel, or Judah," 'tis meant, that the acts that were done in those days, were the Subject of those Words; And in the Greek, which (in the Scripture) retaineth many Hebraismes, by the Word of God is oftentimes meant, not that which is spoken by God, but concerning God, and his government; that is to say, the Doctrine of Religion: Insomuch, as it is all one, to say Logos Theou, and Theologia; which is, that Doctrine which wee usually call Divinity, as is manifest by the places following (Acts 13.46.)
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

In one long row, around the great hall, were painted the portraits of the Doges of Venice (venerable fellows, with flowing white beards, for of the three hundred Senators eligible to the office, the oldest was usually chosen Doge,) and each had its complimentary inscription attached--till you came to the place that should have had Marino Faliero’s picture in it, and that was blank and black--blank, except that it bore a terse inscription, saying that the conspirator had died for his crime.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

an impending Dibynog, a. appendant Dibynol, a. impending Dibynu, v. to hang, to depend Dibynydd, n. dependent Dicen, n. a hen, female bird Dichell, n. trick Dichellgar, a. wily, crafty Dichelliad, n. a devising Dichellu, v. to use craft Dichellus, a. crafty, inventive Dichlyn, a. assidious Dichlynder, n. assiduity Dichlynedd, n. assiduity Dichlynu, v. to act assiduously Dichon, v. to be able Dichoni, v. to be effectual Dichoniad, n. effectuation Dichwant, a. without desire Dichwerw, a. not bitter Dichwith, a. not awkward Dichwyn, a. without weeds Did, n. a teat; fluency Didad, a. fatherless Didaen, a. without expansion Didaer, a. not importunate Didal, a. without pay, unpaid Didalch, a. unfractured Didalm,
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

The man of Self-Control does not change by reason of passion and lust, yet when occasion so requires he will be easy of persuasion: but the Positive man changes not at the call of Reason, though many of this class take up certain desires and are led by their pleasures.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Williams got to resigning at the foundry just for the pleasure of having us come down and plead with the proprietor to raise his pay.
— from Homeburg Memories by George Fitch

Another excursion was made to Ulàla Cove, distant about four nautical miles from our anchorage on the W. side of the island of Kamorta, on which occasion our Venetian gondola, specially constructed for similar expeditions, was pressed into the service.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

Skin eruptions, boils, ulcers, catarrhs, diarrheas, and all other forms of inflammatory febrile disease conditions are indications that there is something hostile to life and health in the organism which Nature is trying to remove or overcome by these so-called "acute" diseases.
— from Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & Cure by Henry Lindlahr

At Christmas-tide came again to the Golden Eagle Albrecht and Ulrich, Conrad Devilson and Walther von Langen, older all by four years than in that December when they had brought news of the burning of the Pope’s bull.
— from The Wanderers by Mary Johnston

They feed upon the Scrophulariaceæ , upon Castileja , Diplopappus , and other plants.
— from The Butterfly Book A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

In the mean time, the British general was anxious for the assistance of the squadron on the lakes, under Commodore Downie, and pressed him to the attack of the American squadron then off Plattsburg.
— from Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat

For Chusquito, bewildered by the surroundings of an unknown city, displayed an excitement and a waywardness of which I had not suspected him capable.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

'They'll throw off those ugly cloaks directly, and appear in their beautiful antique costume.'
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann