Ah! the same mistress is now turned mad, and her hands are bound with a rope, because she is slapping her cheeks.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains; the waving rye-fields; the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to wind-harps; [475] the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine-logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room,—these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Helen understood her, and looked up with a sane sweet face, out of which all resentful bitterness had passed.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Then she took it down to the station, going out the back way and round by the road, so that the others should not see her and offer to come with her, and she gave the letter to the Station Master to give to the old gentleman next morning.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

But one tribe in Western Afghanistan retains both the name of Mongols and a language of which six-sevenths (judging from a vocabulary published by Major Leech) appear to be Mongol.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In the meanwhile, the assailants did not stir, they could be heard marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on this impregnable redoubt.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

THE strike which turned Zenith into two belligerent camps; white and red, began late in September with a walk-out of telephone girls and linemen, in protest against a reduction of wages.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

This elderly widow, with a robust bone structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

To complete a grand system, it would perhaps have been better to encircle Linz with a regular bastioned line, and then to have built seven or eight towers between the eastern salient and the mouth of the Traun, within a direct distance of about two and a half miles, so as to have included for the camp only the curved space between Linz, the Traun, and the Danube.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

It was so enormous that Alice-Palace was positive that it was a roc; but it turned out to be the great blue heron, the largest bird in Eastern America.
— from Everyday Adventures by Samuel Scoville

The city and the surrounding country and the distant colonies were all ruled by a small but exceedingly powerful group of rich men, The Greek word for rich is "ploutos" and the Greeks called such a government by "rich men" a "Plutocracy."
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Homeward he steered with a racing breeze behind him, and he had not sailed far before he met a galeas which gave him the Bergen price for his eider-down.
— from Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Jonas Lie

But he lost no time in trying to impress on the family that it was a rare bargain on their side also.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

We may assume that Arthur was a Romanised Briton, born in the late fifth century at Tintagel; his name being possibly a Celtic form of the Latin Artorius .
— from The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon

As he spoke he sprang round to the other side of the tree, and in doing so stumbled over a small round object which he handed to me, remarking, as he did so, that it was a round bird's nest, of which he had often heard.
— from Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

At that moment, also, a tooth began suddenly to ache and gave him a series of staccato stabs with a really brilliant touch.
— from David Blaize by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

And if you described him—a tall man in a Norfolk suit, with a red beard and a red dog, and an insect case: "Oh, you mean the Butterfly Man!
— from Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler

I little knew at the time what a risk you were all running; but I now see how mercifully we have been preserved.”
— from In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

The earth bare no corn, you might as well have tilled the sea, for the land was all ruined by such deeds."
— from A History of Police in England by W. L. Melville (William Lauriston Melville) Lee