" asked Amy, regarding the magic slip of paper with a reverential eye.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

When it was imposed, the visit of that prince, afterwards the Duke of Kent and father of the reigning Queen, to Upper Canada, was a recent event.—The French ruins spoken of are the ruins of Fort Ste Marie near the mouth of the river Wye—the chief mission-house of the Jesuits, abandoned in 1649, still visible.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Of these kingdoms he was actual ruler, even while his legitimate brother Conrad lived.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

57 But the flexible genius of their faith was always ready either to teach or to learn: in the tradition of the creation, the deluge, and the patriarchs, they held a singular agreement with their Jewish captives; they appealed to the secret books of Adam, Seth, and Enoch; and a slight infusion of the gospel has transformed the last remnant of the Polytheists into the Christians of St. John, in the territory of Bassora.
— 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

The senior Diggs, who, from his eminence, had hitherto viewed the scene with unruffled complacency; who, in fact, derived from these not unusual exhibitions the same agreeable excitement which a Roman emperor might have received from the combats of the circus; began to think that affairs were growing serious, and rose to counsel order and enforce amiable dispositions.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

You will thus have 3 figures with a rounded edge on one side.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Captain Nemo had brought a spyglass with a reticular eyepiece, which corrected the sun's refraction by means of a mirror, and he used it to observe the orb sinking little by little along a very extended diagonal that reached below the horizon.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

There, on a bed, lay a man about forty years of age, with a resolute expression of countenance, a true type of an Anglo-Saxon.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Now, Nell had still the piece of gold sewn in her dress; and when she came to consider the lateness of the hour, and the somnolent habits of Mrs Jarley, and to imagine the state of consternation in which they would certainly throw that good lady by knocking her up in the middle of the night—and when she reflected, on the other hand, that if they remained where they were, and rose early in the morning, they might get back before she awoke, and could plead the violence of the storm by which they had been overtaken, as a good apology for their absence—she decided, after a great deal of hesitation, to remain.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

[ The words "and Bacchic (which are really Egyptian)," are omitted by several of the best MSS.]
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

In poetry we are rich enough; but in prose also we owe everything to the licence our poets have taken in the teeth of critics.
— from Sandra Belloni — Volume 1 by George Meredith

A murder was a rare event in Branson County.
— from The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

But one day old Father Time came along with a new scythe, and he drew the whetstone across it a few times, and rolled the sleeves of his red-flannel undergarment up over his warty elbows, and Mr. Methuselah passed on to that undiscovered country, with a ripe experience and a long clean record.
— from Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Bill Nye

It was a rough experience for a beginner, but a wholesome one, and furnished the usual vicissitudes of frontier life.
— from George Washington, Volume I by Henry Cabot Lodge

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— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Both show a marked expansion around the points known as the Woodstock and Rantowles epicentres, especially about the former, and a contraction in the intermediate region.
— from A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison

Nor will any reader expect, or be grateful for, comment in this place on matters which are more properly to the point—on the seizing and penetrating power of the author’s ripened art as exhibited in the foregoing pages, his vital poetry of vision and magic of presentment.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 19 by Robert Louis Stevenson

I fancied I could see him sitting on the fragment, gazing around the ruin, and mentally restoring it to its original splendor; he brings back the colored light into the windows, and throws its many-hued reflections over the graves; he ranges the banners along around the walls, and rebuilds every shattered arch and aisle, till we have the picture as it rises on us in his book.
— from Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Madame de la Chanterie’s face wore a rapturous expression, and her attitude was that of a woman who was offering a hundred thousand francs to a merchant on the verge of bankruptcy.
— from The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honoré de Balzac