This priory was valued at the suppression to have of lands two hundred and ninety-three pounds by year, and was surrendered 1539, the 31st of Henry VIII.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

And did you do it because your appetite was so small, or did you wish to count the grains so that you might never eat more than a certain number?
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

You are radiant with the most beautiful mildness; you are wholly sweet, good, pitiful, and charming.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

They were the first of such structures in the outskirts of York, and were speedily copied and repeated in various directions, being thought models of neatness and convenience.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

He belonged to company A, 101st New York, and was shot through the lower region of the abdomen at second Bull Run, August, '62.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Then he said quickly: —I hear you are writing some essays about esthetics.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Unfortunately, it was printed in green, instead of the old-fashioned orange-gold of the U.S. Treasury yellowbacks, and was sent to the jungle areas of the South and Southwest Pacific, where everything was green to start with.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Professor Dietrichson relates that among the young artists whose society Ibsen frequented during his first years in Rome, it was customary, at their little festivals, for the revellers to deck themselves in this fashion.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

There's things she could talk to you about which she couldn't talk to me.
— from Capricious Caroline by Effie Adelaide Rowlands

The young adventurer was sailing in a treacherous channel, full of dangerous reefs.
— from Great Violinists And Pianists by George T. (George Titus) Ferris

Would they keep her here, shut her up in a dark room as they had years ago, when she had kicked and screamed until Father Rameau had let her out to liberty and the glorious sunlight?
— from A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda M. Douglas

Be able, as you can be, (if only you are willing so far to be wisely inconsistent, as to bend the stubborn knee betimes, and though with feeble glance to look to heaven, and though with stammering tongue to pray for aid,) be able, as it is thy right, O man of God—to give a Reason for the faith that is in thee.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

"If you can answer for your future sentiments," replied Lady Besford, "you have a greater knowledge, or at least a greater confidence, in yourself than most people have.—As to your preference of Sir William, I own I am inclined to laugh at your so prettily deceiving yourself.—Pray how many men had you seen, and been addressed by, before your acquaintance with Sir William?
— from The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire

This was a do-nothing policy, difficult to reconcile with the enthusiastic liberalism which Young America was supposed to cherish.
— from Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics by Allen Johnson

Smoke-houses stand in many yards and we saw one Dutch windmill for grinding grain.
— from Romantic Canada by Victoria Hayward

The two trunks she had brought five years ago were stored in the basement box-room; but under the camp bed was her dressing-bag, the only "lock-up" receptacle she possessed.
— from The Second Latchkey by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

His son, Sa´os-duchi´nus, governed Babylon as viceroy for twenty years, and was succeeded by Cinnelada´nus, another Assyrian, who ruled twenty-two years.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

You remember me telling you about a venerable old native officer that had served us for forty years, and was so talkative about his loyalty: that he had fought and would again, as long as he could stand, for the British, and that he would be faithful to death, and got so excited that he even mustered tears.
— from A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 by T. (Timothy) Gowing