From the moment when I had discovered that the expected visitor at Limmeridge was Miss Fairlie's future husband, I had felt a bitter curiosity, a burning envious eagerness, to know who he was.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

I walked on shore this evening and killed a buffaloe cow and calf, we found the calf most excellent veal.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

2 [A; b6] cut a large opening or swath.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The nerves which pass through the spinal region of this series of foramina above and below C are continuous with the nerves which pass through the cranial region.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

In this corner stands a flat writing-table, on which are a phonograph, a laryngoscope, a row of tiny organ pipes with a bellows, a set of lamp chimneys for singing flames with burners attached to a gas plug in the wall by an indiarubber tube, several tuning-forks of different sizes, a life-size image of half a human head, showing in section the vocal organs, and a box containing a supply of wax cylinders for the phonograph.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Up betimes, my wife having a mind to have gone abroad with me, but I had not because of troubling me, and so left her, though against my will, to go and see her father and mother by herself, and I straight to my Lord Sandwich’s, and there I had a pretty kind salute from my Lord, and went on to the Duke’s, where my fellow officers by and by came, and so in with him to his closet, and did our business, and so broke up, and I with Sir W. Batten by coach to Salisbury Court, and there spoke with Clerk our Solicitor about Field’s business, and so parted, and I to Mrs. Turner’s, and there saw the achievement pretty well set up, and it is well done.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Isaac slept on the throne, and was awakened only by the sound of pleasure: his vacant hours were amused by comedians and buffoons, and even to these buffoons the emperor was an object of contempt: his feasts and buildings exceeded the examples of royal luxury: the number of his eunuchs and domestics amounted to twenty thousand; and a daily sum of four thousand pounds of silver would swell to four millions sterling the annual expense of his household and table.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He ate in a cheap restaurant in the vicinity, and, being cold and lonely, went straight off to seek the loft in question.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

She was making heaps of earth and paths for a garden and Basil came and stood near to watch her.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I was thinking of her the next morning when her brother called on me with a beaming countenance, and said, “I am certain that you have slept with my sister, and I am very glad of it.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Lord Robert Cecil again appeared for the defence, and in a masterly piece of argumentation, contended that in England there was and always had been the right of petition, and that the right had always been considered a necessary condition of a free country and a civilised Government.
— from My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst

Shoulders and chest have of late received much attention by judges; heavy shoulders and broad chests are no good for these dogs' work.
— from All About Dogs: A Book for Doggy People by Charles Henry Lane

It appears that the inventor had in view the conveyance of a given quantity of powder to a particular place, and by carrying a light to it by means of a cord, similarly fixed, to inflame it, when it had arrived at its destination.
— from A System of Pyrotechny Comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. by James Cutbush

Childress performed the duties of the administrative head of a barber college, and nothing more.
— from Rebels of the Red Planet by Charles L. Fontenay

The woods in the immediate neighbourhood of the town produce a fruit called Pusá, which belongs to a new species of Mouriria ( M. Pusá , Gardn.); it is about the size of a small plum, of a black colour, and resembles very much in taste the fruit of the Jaboticaba ( Eugenia cauliflora , DC.) of the south of Brazil; when in season it is brought to the town and carried through the streets for sale by the Indians.
— from Travels in the Interior of Brazil Principally through the northern provinces, and the gold and diamond districts, during the years 1836-1841 by George Gardner

She was quite offended by this and says firmness has always been considered a strong point in her personality.
— from Ma Pettengill by Harry Leon Wilson

That's a good riddance," Peckover exclaimed, with a great puff of relief as he lighted a big cigar and dropped into an easy chair.
— from A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William, Sir

It is nothing, then, for people who love each other to go away and be consoled, and never see each other again?"
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various

From the northeast, up the Yellowstone, Terry of Fort Fisher fame, the genial, the warm-hearted general, whose thoughts are ever with his officers and men, leads his few hundred footmen, while Custer, whose division has flashed through battery after battery, charge after charge, in the great Rebellion, now rides at the head of a single regiment.
— from Marion's Faith. by Charles King