It had undergone little change in the last two years.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

In his Winning of the West , written in 1889, speaking of the French settlers in the Ohio valley before 1776, and the cordial social relations of the dominant race with the natives—relations which have always obtained with all Latin races under like circumstances—Mr. Roosevelt says (vol.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

We may perhaps venture to arrange them in some such order as this: first, at the bottom of the scale there would be the large group of unskilled or nearly unskilled laborers, comprising agricultural laborers, laborers engaged in miscellaneous occupations in towns, or acting in attendance on skilled labor.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In my anxiety, however, to read all at once, I succeeded only in reading the seven concluding words, which thus appeared—“blood—your life depends upon lying close.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

You must have a husband, you fool; and one of the best gentlemen I ever saw has offered you a hundred times, and you have rejected him, you silly, heartless, ungrateful little creature!" "I tried—I tried my best, indeed I did, Rebecca," said Amelia deprecatingly, "but I couldn't forget—"; and she finished the sentence by looking up at the portrait.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

, 109 Turner (or Torner) Richard, chk. , 572 Turner, William F., 480 Tussac, 8 Twitchell, Champlin & Co., 508 Tyler, George C., 556 Tyler, Henry D., 480 Typhoid fever, Effects of c. on, 181 Typografia Pizzolato, 558 Uganda c., 353 , 377 Ugandæ , C. , 146 Ceylon, 236 Java, 216 Ungandae × Congensis , hyb. , 146 Ukers, William H., 527 Ulman, Lewis & Co.,
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“Curiosity to enjoy an unusually large cock, my dear.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

And he turned and swiftly crossed the verandah into the dim hall with its scarlet plush and gilt furniture—conjuror’s furniture—its Notice of Services at the English Church, its green baize board with the unclaimed letters climbing the black lattice, huge “Presentation” clock that struck the hours at the half-hours, bundles of sticks and umbrellas and sunshades in the clasp of a brown wooden bear, past the two crippled palms, two ancient beggars at the foot of the staircase, up the marble stairs three at a time, past the life-size group on the landing of two stout peasant children with their marble pinnies full of marble grapes, and along the corridor, with its piled-up wreckage of old tin boxes, leather trunks, canvas hold-alls, to their room.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

"Are Squire Boatfield and I to understand, Lambert," continued Sir Marmaduke, speaking to the young man, "that your brother Adam has unaccountably disappeared since the night on which the foreigner met with his tragic fate?
— from The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

But then, in cutting the plants for use, the business must be done neatly, all useless leaves cleared from the ground, the roots no longer wanted taken up, and the ravages of insects to be guarded against by sedulous extirpation.
— from Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

That word "harbour" comes to mean a good deal to the houseboater who attempts to make a cruiser of his unseaworthy, lubberly craft.
— from Virginia: the Old Dominion As seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time by Frank W. Hutchins

Tentyra: summus utrinque Inde furor vulgo, quod numina vicinorum Odit uterque locus, cum solos credat habendos Esse deos, quos ipse colit.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Sylvestre had just set foot upon land, chance selecting him to complete the crew of a whale boat.
— from An Iceland Fisherman by Pierre Loti

It was not the first woman’s face they had seen under like circumstances, and there was no special interest about this aristo.
— from El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

A moment later he hit the calf squarely and the unfortunate little creature went down in the road, under the car.
— from The Motor Boys Over the Ocean; Or, A Marvelous Rescue in Mid-Air by Clarence Young

And as a part of the permanent famine relief system for future emergencies, the board of public works has laid out a scheme of roads and the department of agriculture a system of irrigation upon which the unemployed labor can be mobilized at short notice, and funds have been set apart for the payment of their wages.
— from Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis

As, for instance, thyme is to be identified by the calyx having hairs in its throat, dead nettle by having bristles in its mouth, lion's tail by having bones in its anthers (antheræ punctis osseis adspersæ), and teucrium by having its upper lip cut in two!
— from Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew by John Ruskin

Instead of falling to the ground it flapped about in the air in a helpless sort of way, uttering loud cries of pain.
— from Chatterbox, 1905. by Various