So out came the tarlatan, looking older, limper, and shabbier than ever beside Sallie's crisp new one.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

[v. ‘ last ’ vb.] hlæsting f. toll on loading a ship , TC 359.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Subdividing themselves into smaller and smaller branches, they refreshed the dry lands, and supplied the deficiency of rain.
— 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

He composed apophthegms in verse to the number of two thousand lines; and said that those who wished to wield absolute power in safety, should be guarded by the good will of their countrymen, and not by arms.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

This got wind, and Mr. P—— was advised to spend the honeymoon in Toronto; but he only laughed, and said that 'he was not going to be frightened from his comfortable home by the threats of a few wild boys.'
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The town was at length taken and plundered, but the castle of Jodha ‘laughed a siege to scorn’; in time with the aid of finesse, the mighty host of Jaipur, which had consumed the forage of these arid plains for twenty miles around, began to crumble away; intrigue spread through every rank, and the siege ended in pusillanimity and flight.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Dunkirk newly sold, and the money brought over; of which we hope to get some to pay the Navy: which by Sir J. Lawson’s having dispatched the business in the Straights, by making peace with Argier,—[The ancient name for Algiers.]—Tunis, and Tripoli (and so his fleet will also shortly come home), will now every day grow less, and so the King’s charge be abated; which God send!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The fellow heard the laughter and saw the joke reflected in the solemn faces of the bystanders.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Richard with his head bent, and her hand drawn through his arm, was talking to her very earnestly; and she looked up in his face, listening, and seemed to see nothing else.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This she locked, and slipped the key on her own bunch which was tied to her betel-bag.
— from The Outcaste by F. E. (Fanny Emily) Penny

[304] from his fingers, cleansed them upon the sleeve of his shirt—and again, deliberately, he laughed, and started to climb slowly forward.
— from The Gold Girl by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

Look upon her with thy face of love and sorrow that thou didst turn on him who denied thee, and melt her hard heart.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

The very eminent authority spoke a few weeks later, and said that his "writings had fallen on barren soil."
— from German Influence on British Cavalry by Erskine Childers

Through the open window overlooking the alley came a sound of singing; two voices raised in doubtful harmony, one loud and strong, the other rasping, hoarse, and uncertain.
— from The Auction Block by Rex Beach

There are still other schools (ryugi) which might be mentioned, including that of the nangwa, or Chinese southern painters, of Chinese origin and remarkable for the gracefulness of the brush stroke, the effective treatment of the masses and for the play of light and shade throughout the composition.
— from On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan by Henry P. Bowie

English and Indian amicably ate their supper together, and Church afterwards laid down to rest, as he had not slept during the thirty-six previous hours; but his mind was too full of cares to admit of repose, and after lying a short time, he got up.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

Jack and Rose were alone with the patient, when the last again spoke to his wife.
— from Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef by James Fenimore Cooper

By the use of these tools the surface is modeled into planes of light and shade, to which interest is added if the unaggressive tool marks are permitted to remain [167] on the surface.
— from Industrial Arts Design A Textbook of Practical Methods for Students, Teachers, and Craftsmen by William H. (William Harrison) Varnum