Through the still, thick blur, men groped in and out; women, very few, grasped their reticules to their bosoms and handkerchiefs to their mouths; crowned with the weird excrescence of the driver, haloed by a vague glow of lamp-light that seemed to drown in vapour before it reached the pavement, cabs loomed dim-shaped ever and again, and discharged citizens, bolting like rabbits to their burrows.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

It now occurred to me that I suffered great uneasiness in the joint of my left ankle, and a dim consciousness of my situation began to glimmer through my mind.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Miss Sally Brass, then, was a lady of thirty-five or thereabouts, of a gaunt and bony figure, and a resolute bearing, which if it repressed the softer emotions of love, and kept admirers at a distance, certainly inspired a feeling akin to awe in the breasts of those male strangers who had the happiness to approach her.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

He began to think that women were always right; that Devilsdust was after all a dangerous counsellor; he even meditated over the possibility of a retreat.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

[37] 448 Another body of the Imperialists, under the celebrated Dilir Khan, [38] who [384] entered by the Desuri Pass from Marwar (probably with a view of extricating Prince Akbar), were allowed to advance unopposed, and when in the long intricate gorge were assailed by Bikram Solanki [39] and Gopinath Rathor [40] (both nobles of Mewar), and after a desperate conflict entirely destroyed.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Contributing to maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

And, instead of herborizing, they visited the shops of druggists, herbalists, and apothecaries, and diligently considered the fruits, roots, leaves, gums, seeds, the grease and ointments of some foreign parts, as also how they did adulterate them.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

As you did not undertake to assume the management of the affairs of this army, I infer that, on personal inspection, your mind arrived at a different conclusion from that of the Secretary of War.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

SYN: Far, away, apart, dispersed, aloof, adrift, about, distracted, confused.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

I have just given them the lie direct, by performing my Easter devotions ( mes paques ) publicly; thus proving to all my lively desire to terminate my long career in the religion in which I was born; and I have fulfilled this important act after a dozen consecutive attacks of fever, which made me fear I should die before I could assure you of my respect and my devotion.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

There was Korenwinder, another Catholic, formerly occupying an official position of responsibility as secretary of the town of Berkel, a man of immense corpulence, but none the less an active and dangerous conspirator.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

At length, in March, 1790, the subject of the petition was discussed, when the Assembly adopted a decree concerning it.
— from An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries. by Joshua Coffin

Toward evening a breeze arose and a delicious coolness fell upon the earth like a pardon.
— from Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country by Louis Hémon

By origin, all three alike belonged in the very strictest sense to the working classes; and the story of each is full of lessons or of warnings for every one of us: but that of Telford is perhaps the most encouraging and the most remarkable of all, as showing how much may be accomplished by energy and perseverance, even under the most absolutely adverse and difficult circumstances.
— from Biographies of Working Men by Grant Allen

3. Sikhidhwaja said:—I grant, Oh sagely monitor, that there subsists no separate world nor any other egoism in the one pure Siva (Zeus or Jove), except his own essence of omniscience; but please to tell me, what thing is this world and individual egoisms that seem to be infinite in number, and appear as distinct creations of God? 4. Kumbha replied:—The essence of God is without its beginning and end, and extends to infinite space and time.
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki