If I were a jolly archbishop, On Fridays I'd eat all the fish up— Salmon and flounders and smelts; On other days everything else.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
She was ill at ease, and looked more than usually stern and forbidding as she entered the Hales' little drawing-room.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The underground way ran on apparently with an upward slant as far as she could see.
— from Where the Sun Swings North by Barrett Willoughby
If I were a jolly archbishop, On Fridays I 'd eat all the fish up— Salmon and flounders and smelts; On other days everything else.
— from The Cynic's Word Book by Ambrose Bierce
The United States Army fought a series of Indian wars in Minnesota, Dakota, and the Indian Territory.
— from The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
All for a line in some unheeded scroll; All for a stone that tells to gaping clowns, “Here lies a restless wretch beneath a clod Where squats the jealous nightmare men call Fame!”
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes
My acquaintance with Thérèse became daily more intimate, and was soon upon such a footing as seemed to authorize my asking her to accompany me on a Sunday jaunt to one of the thousand resorts of Parisian pleasure-seekers just beyond the barriers of the city.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
China is so enormous in extent that it embraces almost every variety of climate, though, speaking generally, the summer is everywhere very warm, while the winter, from being almost of arctic severity in the northern provinces, where the sea is frozen and all navigation stopped for six weeks or two months, gradually becomes milder in lower latitudes, until snow and frost are seldom experienced, and finally never seen in the sub-tropical region of the extreme south.
— from Life and sport in China Second Edition by Oliver George Ready
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