The room disclosed was prettily furnished as a boudoir or small drawing-room, and on a sofa with two cylindrical pillows reclined a dark-haired, large-eyed, pretty woman, of unmistakably French extraction on one side or the other.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

If in some cases, pecuniary recognition is also a result of an action, though not the chief motive for it, that fact may well increase the significance of the occupation.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

SYN: Contentment, content, complacency, pleasure, recompense, compensation, amends, remuneration, indemnification, atonement.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

When they came back very cautiously, peeping round the tree—there was Old Brown sitting on his door-step, quite still, with his eyes closed, as if nothing had happened.
— from The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter

CONYBEARE’S (Dean) Essay on Church Parties, reprinted from the Edinburgh Review , No. CC., October, 1853, 12mo.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

The second Apology of Justin contains some curious particulars relative to the accusations of Christians.
— 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 crossexamination proceeds re Bloom and the bucket.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Christie could not speak for very pity; and he soon continued, pacing restlessly before her, as he had often done when she sat by, wondering what unquiet spirit drove him to and fro: "That was the beginning of my trouble; but not the worst of it: God forgive me, not the worst!
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

and I did look over the list of commanders, and found that we could presently recollect thirty-seven commanders that have been killed in actuall service this war.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

To the company, which finally built the line, the government gave $25,000,000 (£5,130,000) in cash, an even greater value in portions of the road already constructed, and twenty-five million acres of land, scattered through the prairie provinces, and the Canadian Pacific Railway is now a very wealthy corporation, which carries on numerous enterprises outside the actual business of railway transportation.
— from Canada and the British immigrant by Emily P. (Emily Poynton) Weaver

Lieutenant Gaines and Colonel Perkins rode at the head of the troopers.
— from A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable

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— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1953 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

But every Cuban patriot read in it "Cubans" for "Greeks" and "Spaniards" for "Moslems."
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

The high and grave deportment, [Pg 467] therefore, which had thus happily raised alarm, had no sooner answered its purpose, than she suffered it to give place to an air of gentleness, more congenial to her native feelings: and, the next morning, subduing her resentment, and submitting, with the best grace in her power, to the business of her office, she cheerfully proposed reading; complied with the first request that was made her to play upon the piano-forte and the harp; and even, to sing; though, not so promptly; for her voice and sensibility were less ductile than her manners.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 3 of 5) by Fanny Burney

There were a few outlying farms, a few shanties, and then bare, scrubby fields, the Common Pasture, rocky knolls and clumps of woods.
— from The Believing Years by Edmund Lester Pearson

Jealous of his chast Psyche, raging he Quarrels with<75.2> student Mercurie, And with a proud submissive breath Offers to change his darts with Death.
— from Lucasta by Richard Lovelace

Yet, if you have a severe, constant pain, rather low down in the right-hand corner of your abdomen, and if, when you press your hand firmly down in that corner, it hurts, or you feel a lump, it is decidedly safest to call a doctor and let him see what the condition really is, and advise you what to do. {21} CHAPTER III THE FOOD-FUEL OF THE BODY-ENGINE WHAT KIND OF FOOD SHOULD WE EAT?
— from A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson