Mademoiselle Zélie St. Pierre, on this particular Thursday, even assumed a "robe de soie," deemed in economical Labassecour an article of hazardous splendour and luxury; nay, it was remarked that she sent for a "coiffeur" to dress her hair that morning; there were pupils acute enough to discover that she had bedewed her handkerchief and her hands with a new and fashionable perfume.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Alone, before them all, with her face hidden in her hands, and despair in every line of her drooping figure, stood Rachel,--a meek culprit at the stern bar of justice, where women try a sister woman.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

And to no Celt is death in early life a natural thing: if it comes to a child or to a beautiful youth in any way whatsoever, the fairies have taken what they coveted.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

C'est une méthode de fabrication de graphes UNL qui suppose une bonne part d'interaction, avec plusieurs possibilités: - analyse classique multiple suivie d'une désambiguisation interactive en langue source, - entrée sous langage contrôlé, - encore plus séduisant (et encore pas clair, au niveau recherche pour l'instant), entrée directe via une interface graphique reliée à la base lexicale et
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Again, another difficulty in execution lay in this, that the King's Army in this campaign was constantly in motion.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

I suppose the people gave him that nickname going about with his tube from one woman to another I couldnt even change my new white shoes all ruined with the saltwater and the hat I had with that feather all blowy and tossed on me how annoying and provoking because the smell of the sea excited me of course the sardines and the bream in Catalan bay round the back of the rock they were fine all silver in the fishermens baskets old Luigi near a hundred they said came from Genoa and the tall old chap with the earrings I dont like a man you have to climb up to to get at I suppose theyre all dead and rotten long ago besides I dont like being alone in this big barracks of a place at night I suppose Ill have to put up with it I never brought a bit of salt in even when we moved in the confusion musical academy he was going to make on the first floor drawingroom with a brassplate or Blooms private hotel he suggested go and ruin himself altogether the way his father did down in Ennis like all the things he told father he was going to do and me
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

In young Don Juan's favour, and to him its Exertion might be useful on occasion; And, lighted at too pure a shrine to dim its Ethereal lustre, with what sweet persuasion He might be taught, by love and her together— I really don't know what, nor Julia either.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

‘It is only his manner, I believe,’ observed Kate, timidly; ‘he was disappointed in early life, I think I have heard, or has had his temper soured by some calamity.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

[2254] base by nature, and no more esteemed than dogs, miseram, laboriosam, calamitosam vitam agunt, et inopem, infelicem, rudiores asinis, ut e brutis plane natos dicas : no learning, no knowledge, no civility, scarce common, sense, nought but barbarism amongst them, belluino more vivunt, neque calceos gestant, neque vestes , like rogues and vagabonds, they go barefooted and barelegged, the soles of their feet being as hard as horse-hoofs, as [2255] Radzivilus observed at Damietta in Egypt, leading a laborious, miserable, wretched, unhappy life,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Now on with the lecture; let joy be unconfined!" "When did I ever lecture you, Chilly?"
— from The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives

Both delighted in exquisite leisure, and spent it in pleased acquiescence with things as they are.
— from Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

But, at the same moment, the head of an elderly lady, apparently of some rank, was thrust forth from between the curtains of the vehicle, uttering various not very coherent sentences, and displaying in every line and feature indubitable marks of great fear and trepidation.
— from Henry of Guise; or, The States of Blois (Vol. 1 of 3) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The moonlight was wonderfully bright, and for a long distance objects could be seen, and bunches of sage bush and Spanish bayonet took the forms of horsemen, and naturally I saw danger in every little thing we passed.
— from Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe

Crack, eye-strings, and your balls Drop into earth; let me be ever blind.
— from The Poetaster by Ben Jonson

And even if it were supposed that the taint wore off or evaporated with time from common folk so as to let them go about their common duties in everyday life, would it not still cleave to priests?
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12) by James George Frazer

The beauty spot of beauteous Acadie, Its summer and its winter scenes I sing: Here in primeval days great Neptune wise Conspired with Fora, bounteous and free, To make a masterpiece, a paradise, Where Nymphs and Naiad’s might forever woo; And now by night and day it ever lies Reflecting in its waters, deep and blue
— from Poems by D. M. (Duncan M.) Matheson

For there is a dream in every life which is its soul, and when the dream is gone the life appears a corpse.
— from Absalom's Hair by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

—Although essentially a western species the Wilson phalarope has many times been detected in eastern localities.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent