In a still bigger house, the second cook cooks for the servants always, and for the children sometimes, and assists the cook by preparing certain plainer portions of the meals, the cook preparing all dinner dishes, sauces and the more elaborate items on the menu.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Seven cities contended for the honor of giving birth to Homer—that is to say, they contended after his death!
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

We see how the custom, once started, could continue, for the soul of it is that stupendous power, Faith; faith brought to the pitch of effectiveness by the cumulative force of example and long use and custom; but we cannot understand how the first widows came to take to it.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Neighbouring tribes of a similar civilization cannot fail to be in constant relations with each other.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Then, too, the ants may establish their nests in the immediate vicinity of the aphid droves or actually keep them in their nests or in "sheds" carefully constructed for the purpose.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

An aged Winkie, dressed in a uniform of silver cloth, came forward to assist them to alight.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

It matters not though the bill may have been deliberately drawn up by the authority deemed the best qualified, with all appliances and means to boot; or by a select commission, chosen for their conversancy with the subject, and having employed years in considering and digesting the particular measure: it can not be passed, because the House of Commons will not forego the precious privilege of tinkering it with their clumsy hands.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

A number of country people in their Sunday clothes, coming from the villages under the Long Mynd, swarmed on to the platform.
— from The Black Diamond by Francis Brett Young

They wear the red button and they know why it is red and what its meaning is; they tack up bills and distribute dodgers advertising our meetings; they sell tickets, take up collections, act as ushers, provide the soap-box for the corner speaker, carry chairs for the women so they may sit in comfort after their day's work, go around among the neighbors and remind them of the meeting and not to forget to attend, sell socialist books, papers and pamphlets, and do a score of other things which are just as useful in their way as the speech of the orator that wins the applause of the people.
— from Labor and Freedom: The Voice and Pen of Eugene V. Debs by Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) Debs

With that he was about to lift the latch, when Claude raised the axe, and without one cry the inspector fell to the ground, with his skull completely cloven from three heavy blows dealt with the rapidity of lightning.
— from Under Sentence of Death; Or, a Criminal's Last Hours by Victor Hugo

If we could find a good governess, then she could care for the mental development of our children and also for the formation of their characters.
— from Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini

A tower of Romanesque foundation, but of fifteenth and sixteenth century completion, flanks this south transept.
— from The Cathedrals of Northern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Several contractors competed for the work of constructing this great tunnel, and it was at first supposed that an Italian company, which was managed by some of the principal engineers engaged on the Mont Cenis, would be almost certain to obtain the contract.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

These flats extended one to two miles back and then rose into low ridges of poor land, timbered with box and ironbark; crossed a sandy creek coming from the west, and at 1.30 p.m. camped on the right bank of the river.
— from Journals of Australian Explorations by Francis Thomas Gregory

The single comfort came from the fact of his absence.
— from Heart of the Blue Ridge by Waldron Baily

The impulse which caught up and gave wings to his work just when it seemed crushed came from the heart of Mary.
— from The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam