George Talboys saw his bearded face and tall, gaunt figure reflected in the glass, and wondered to see how out of place he seemed among all these womanly luxuries.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

And her sympathies go further and shape her opinions on political and national movements.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

There, under the free sky, do tight-limbed Federates, with fairest newfound sweethearts, elastic as Diana, and not of that coyness and tart humour of Diana, thread their jocund mazes, all through the ambrosial night; and hearts were touched and fired; and seldom surely had our old Planet, in that huge conic Shadow of hers 'which goes beyond the Moon, and is named Night,' curtained such a Ball-room.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

There seems, however, only one plausible way of accounting for them—and yet it is dreadful to believe in such atrocity as my suggestion would imply.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

I told Johnston that I had seen his order of preparation, in the nature of an address to his army, announcing his purpose to retreat no more, but to accept battle at Cassville.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

What To Say When Introduced Best Society has only one phrase in acknowledgment of an introduction: "How do you do?"
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

But the Comte de Sarak has other occult phenomena up his sleeve, which I have not yet witnessed—among them being the shattering of a pane of glass by pronouncing the words, “Forward, ever forward”; the instantaneous production of vegetation from the seed; and the immediate development of fish from spawn.
— from The Old and the New Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans

She had only one piece of jewelry to her name, a string of sapphires, which had belonged to her mother when she was a girl.
— from Molly Brown's Freshman Days by Nell Speed

A musical young wheelwright, on being called on for a song, suspended his occupation of picking his teeth with a lynch-pin, and gave them "Weel may the keel row," and Axelcior."
— from Southerly Busters by George Herbert Gibson

The strain had been too much for her; some of the weakened timbers had given way, or some of the seams had opened, or perhaps a butt had started, for the ship was leaking badly.
— from For Love of Country: A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution by Cyrus Townsend Brady

and I will send him odles of postcards from Europe.
— from The Turned-About Girls by Beulah Marie Dix

But what a different creature was this fierce-eyed demon, palpitating with life and vigor, glossy of coat, alert, growling, magnificent, from the dingy, moth-eaten replicas beneath their glass cases in the stuffy halls of our public museums.
— from The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs

by weight of sulphuretted hydrogen or of phosphine--it being always recollected that the sulphur and phosphorus do not necessarily exist in the gas as simple hydrides.
— from Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by W. J. Atkinson (William John Atkinson) Butterfield