Amelia was very happy, smiling, and active all that evening, performing her duties as hostess of the little entertainment with the utmost grace and propriety, as Dobbin thought.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Roundness may therefore be carelessly called an abstraction from the real object "sun"; whereas the peculiar optical and muscular feelings by which the sense of roundness is constituted—probably feelings of gyration and perpetual unbroken movement—are much earlier than any solar observations; they are a self-sufficing element in experience which, by repetition in various accidental contests, has come to be recognised and named, and to be a characteristic by virtue of which more complex objects can be distinguished and defined.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Ak′bar (that is 'very great'), a Mogul emperor, the greatest Asiatic prince of modern times.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

It gave a prospect across the moor through a gap in the plantation, and revealed certain figures half a mile off straggling through the heather.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

His face was gray and pale; he had a timid, fearful look in his eyes; something almost pitiful to see in a man's face; but that look of despondent uncertainty, of mental and bodily languor, touched his wife's heart.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

De repente le da la gana al portero de contar los que estaban en la portería, y nota que le falta uno.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Thinking this fleet must be all but upon him, Philip, in great alarm, promptly ordered his ships to weigh anchor and sail back the way they came.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

In four or five months after reaching New Bedford, there came a young man to me, with a copy of the Liberator , the paper edited by WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, and published by ISAAC KNAPP, and asked me to subscribe for it.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The days of the grille are past.
— from The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson

It no doubt cost the princely George a pang to realize that Mrs. Bell had not made a favorable impression with the public, as he had featured her on the bills.
— from The Mormons and the Theatre; or, The History of Theatricals in Utah by John S. (John Shanks) Lindsay

Suddenly Lola gave a piercing shriek, which made every one look round, but she immediately burst out laughing.
— from Froth: A Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés

But he modified his democracy by a distinction between ch'üan (power) and nêng (ability), keeping government and people perpetually dual, and making the problem of democratic personnel one of popular choice plus the control of popular choice.
— from The China of Chiang K'ai-Shek: A Political Study by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Now," he said to himself, "suppose a big thafe was to poke his dirty head in at the winder and say, 'Give me all your money, or I'll break your head'—I'd put up with the gun and point at him this way."
— from Only an Irish Boy; Or, Andy Burke's Fortunes by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

I seem to see our Louis Grand And Philip IV.
— from A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine by Jean de La Fontaine

In the foreground it was a sweep of fading green and pale ocher; farther off it was tinged with gray and purple; and where it cut the glow of green and pink on the skyline a long birch bluff ran in a cold blue smear.
— from Prescott of Saskatchewan by Harold Bindloss

Thus the Christians lost the enjoyment of the spiritual gifts of the {LXXXI} Gospel, such as inspired dreams, prophecies, healings, speaking in new tongues, ministering of angels, and, most to be lamented of all, direct revelation from God, by which the will of God might be made known to His people and His Church preserved from error, from decadence, and from destruction: and by the absence of these spiritual gifts and powers among the Christians of the third and fourth centuries, we may know that a mere man-made religion, having indeed a form of godliness but denying the power thereof, had succeeded to the spiritually gifted religion, of Jesus Christ, wherein the power of God is ever present and outwardly as well as inwardly manifested.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 1 Period 1. History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet by Smith, Joseph, Jr.

One of the last is Malacarne, an Italian, who published his Solution Géométrique , at Paris, in 1825.
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan