‘At a certain place the candle, which the chamberwoman was carrying, went out; and the Princess would have screamed with terror, but her hand was seized, and a voice cried “Hush!”
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Influence Of Democracy On Progress Of Opinion in The United States H2 anchor De Tocqueville's Preface To The Second Part The Americans live in a democratic state of society, which has naturally suggested to them certain laws and a certain political character.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

As he arrives there he sees a young man, in a blouse and a cap, passing on the quay, who is being shoved along by three municipal guards with the butt-ends of their muskets.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Besides we are come here amongst a Christian people, full of piety and humanity: let us not bring that confusion of face upon ourselves, as to show our vices, or unworthiness before them.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Once, through a break in the trees, we saw a clear shoulder of green hill some distance away, and across this a large dun-colored animal was traveling at a considerable pace.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

A person is not at all completely present to another, when the latter sees him, but only when he also sees the other.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

White may leave Black in check as often as he likes, for it makes no difference, as he can never arrive at a checkmate position.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

As a Christian patriot, as a teacher of Christianity, I go to my country ,—my chosen, my glorious Africa!—and to her, in my heart, I sometimes apply those splendid words of prophecy: ’Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee; I will make thee an eternal excellence, a joy of many generations!’
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

4. in his book of Abel and Cain, Philo Judeus de mercede mer .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and dale for this pretty flower; and eight long days he sought for it in vain: but on the ninth day, early in the morning, he found the beautiful purple flower; and in the middle of it was a large dewdrop, as big as a costly pearl.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

A troubled look passed over Mrs. Powell's face; passed and left no trace, as a cloud passes over the sun.
— from Southern Hearts by Florence Hull Winterburn

The text and the illustrations of the book show how, in the sequence of evolution (according to Eimer's laws of transformation), the groupings of stripes, bands, and eye-spots must have appeared on the butterfly's wing, how convex or concave curvings of the contour must have come about at certain points, so that the form of a “leaf” and the lines of its venation resulted, how the eye-spots must have been moulded and shunted, so that they produced the effect of rust or other spots on withered leaves.
— from Naturalism and Religion by Rudolf Otto

To taxi across the grass in a chase for flying speed, to soar gently from the hot ground, and, by leaning beyond the wind-screen, to let the slip-stream of displaced air play on one's face—all this was refreshing as a cold plunge after a Turkish bath.
— from Cavalry of the Clouds by Alan Bott

There's a hole in my beaver as big as a crown piece."
— from Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

She was, however, an excellent cook and a careful, prudent servant.
— from Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl by L. T. Meade

He then climbed to the ground again, and commenced playing with a small stick.
— from Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa by Elphinstone Dayrell

I come across a common peasant or craftsman, and he down there has a mind more open—he's wiser in his intelligence than his rulers and lawgivers up above him.
— from Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete by George Meredith

At a certain point with which he was acquainted, Curumilla laid himself down flat on his face, behind a block of rock, and remained motionless among the grass and bushes that bordered the route.
— from The Adventurers by Gustave Aimard