Amid the scattered property and the crowd on the open space, she, in her rich satin cloak with a bright lilac shawl on her head, suggested a delicate exotic plant thrown out onto the snow.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

She having come in afterwards, thought fit to be a stepmother to Phronime in deed as well as in name, giving her evil treatment and devising everything possible to her hurt; and at last she brings against her a charge of lewdness and persuades her husband that the truth is so.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Marya, after milking the cow, brought in a pail of milk and set it on a bench; then Granny poured it from the pail into a jug just as slowly and deliberately, evidently pleased that it was now the Fast of the Assumption, so that no one would drink milk and it would be left untouched.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

It is one thing to make use of the language and sentiments which are common to ourselves and our forefathers, and it is another to invest them with the sentiments and dialect exclusively proper to their descendants.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Soon he observed that she was tripping gayly back and forth with flushed face and dancing eyes, pretending to be busy chasing schoolmates, and screaming with laughter when she made a capture; but he noticed that she always made her captures in his vicinity, and that she seemed to cast a conscious eye in his direction at such times, too.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

lisinsiya n 1 license, a document evidencing permission to engage in s.t. 2 permission to do s.t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He was on other accounts also a venerable, and a very just man; and besides the grandeur of that nobility, and dignity, and honor of which he was possessed, he had been a lover of a kind of parity, even with regard to the meanest of the people; he was a prodigious lover of liberty, and an admirer of a democracy in government; and did ever prefer the public welfare before his own advantage, and preferred peace above all things; for he was thoroughly sensible that the Romans were not to be conquered.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

One would have said that he felt that she was a delicate, exquisite, precious thing, made for other hands than his.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Later, Aunt Amelia added a word on the same subject, but in a manner so harsh Marian became convinced that to have lived in an orphan asylum was a disgrace equal perhaps to a prison record.
— from The Rainbow Bridge by Frances Margaret Fox

—Rev. Anson D. Eddy preached this morning.
— from Village Life in America 1852-1872, Including the Period of the American Civil War As Told in the Diary of a School-Girl by Caroline Cowles Richards

And he crawled about from man to man, to all the wounded men round him, as long as he could, and did everything possible to relieve their sufferings—never thinking of himself—he was tying a bit of bandage round another man's leg when he went under.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I think I am so far known to many of the present Congress, as that I may be cleared of all views of making money out of any public employment, or of desiring any thing beyond actual and decent expenses, proportioned to the station in which they have been pleased to place me, and to the respect they would wish to see attached to it.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson

They are dark and cool; and no hoof of any description ever passing through them, the marble flags are always smooth and clean; and with the singular silence, only broken by the shuffling of feet, they are pleasant places to loiter in at noon-day, when the canals are sunny.
— from Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Nathaniel Parker Willis

Hard by the place of slaughter, in the green bushes, a delicate ear perceives the hum of the Grasshoppers.
— from The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Jean-Henri Fabre

So she goes to New York City as my fiancée, and I will study hard and do everything possible to be worthy of her, for she is a brave girl!"
— from Polly and Eleanor by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

On the other hand, we see these same virtues in the service of savagery, extinguishing those marvels, killing their creators, and destroying every precious treasure of mankind within reach.
— from Essays in War-Time: Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis