At this moment the door was flung open, and a shrill voice was heard singing: ‘To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said, “I’ve a sceptre in hand, I’ve a crown on my head; Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be, Come and dine with the Red Queen, the White Queen, and me.”’
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Some of these faubourgs were important: there were, first, starting from la Tournelle, the Bourg Saint-Victor, with its one arch bridge over the Bièvre, its abbey where one could read the epitaph of Louis le Gros, epitaphium Ludovici Grossi , and its church with an octagonal spire, flanked with four little bell towers of the eleventh century (a similar one can be seen at Etampes; it is not yet destroyed); next, the Bourg Saint-Marceau, which already had three churches and one convent; then, leaving the mill of the Gobelins and its four white walls on the left, there was the Faubourg Saint-Jacques with the beautiful carved cross in its square; the church of Saint-Jacques du Haut-Pas, which was then Gothic, pointed, charming; Saint-Magloire, a fine nave of the fourteenth century, which Napoleon turned into a hayloft; Notre-Dame des Champs, where there were Byzantine mosaics; lastly, after having left behind, full in the country, the Monastery des Chartreux, a rich edifice contemporary with the Palais
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

These garments, which differ altogether from those of antiquity, constitute, as it were, the common type from which have since arisen the endless varieties of male and female dress; and there is no doubt that fashion will thus be continually changing backwards and forwards from time to time, sometimes returning to its original model, and sometimes departing from it.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

The rear-guard was to be commanded by Leon and Alvarado, consisting of the main body of the cavalry, 100 foot, and the greater part of Narvaez's troops.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

And he jerked away his plate, which Tíkhon briskly caught.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

‘If you don’t, say so at once, you know; because it’s just as well to be correct, particularly on a point of this kind, which is very curious and worth settling while one thinks about it.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

352 He also pointed out where the wall was to be carried round it.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

It tends to the segregation of species into subspecies, it makes it easier for new variations to establish themselves, it promotes prepotency, or what the breeders call "transmitting power," it fixes characters.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In the Jewish war, having become a refuge for pirates, it was taken by Cestius and destroyed, and even the very ruins were demolished by Vespasian.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

And the hymn was no more to be chaunted in the Lady’s chapel; and the candles were no more to be lit on the high altar; and the gate of the poor was to be closed for ever; and the wanderer was no more to find a home.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

All the inessentials of her being were stripped away, and she was merely a woman, divine, desired, necessary, waiting to be captured.
— from A Man from the North by Arnold Bennett

Phil, who knew his brother's face well, saw, as he passed down the room, how miserable he was—too miserable to cry; and Phil pulled him by the sleeve, and whispered that being caned was nothing to mind—only a stroke or two across the shoulders.
— from The Crofton Boys by Harriet Martineau

Yet its unity and vitality are clear and depend chiefly on its association with the Brahman caste.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Each wing to be composed of three columns, a center protected by a strong van and rear guard.
— from General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright

Macbeth was performed (a sensational event, and a triumph for Mme Maeterlinck) at the Abbey of Saint Wandrille, the Benedictine cloister which Maeterlinck saved from being turned into a chemical factory, [2] and which is now his home.
— from Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell

Second: She was to be constantly employed for his benefit.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

If he let the Selache come up to avoid the boat, there was the ice ahead, and at the speed she was traveling it would infallibly incrush her bows, while if he held her straight there was the boat close in front of her.
— from Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss

Every part of a plant has been named; and the form of every part, even the most minute, has had a large assemblage of descriptive terms appropriated to it, by means of which the botanist can convey and receive knowledge of form and structure, as exactly as if each minute part were presented to him vastly magnified.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill