Arthur by direction remained outside.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

To the writers of this reign we must add APICIUS COELIUS, who has left a book De Re Coquinaria [of Cookery].
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

After dinner I to Sir W. Batten’s, and there received so much good usage (as I have of late done) from him and my Lady, obliging me and my wife, according to promise, to come and dine with them to-morrow with our neighbours, that I was in pain all the day, and night too after, to know how to order the business of my wife’s not going, and by discourse receive fresh instances of Sir J. Minnes’s folly in complaining to Sir G. Carteret of Sir W. Batten and me for some family offences, such as my having of a stopcock to keepe the water from them, which vexes me, but it would more but that Sir G. Carteret knows him very well.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Mikolka stood on one side and began dealing random blows with the crowbar.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[ 1136 ] a broken down, ruined.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A big dog ran by like a shadow.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

How have cunning workmen in all crafts, with their cunning head and right-hand, tamed the Four Elements to be their ministers; yoking the winds to their Sea-chariot, making the very Stars their Nautical Timepiece;—and written and collected a Bibliotheque du Roi; among whose Books is the Hebrew Book!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

If the statement is aided by dramatic reinforcement, I may add that possessory rights pass by descent or devise, as well as by conveyance, /1/ and that they are taxed as property in some of the States.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Aigentliche beschreibung der Raisis so er vor diser zeit gegen auffgang inn die morgenlaender volbracht.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

"There assuredly was a battery, doctor," responded the lieutenant, laughing; "and a very heavy one too.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

Il y a bien des raisons pour que je désire voir votre nom sur la première page d'un livre de moi; la meilleure est, peut-être, parceque vous êtes mon ami depuis 'Les Confessions d'un Jeune Anglais' qui ont paru dans votre jolie Revue Indépendante; et, depuis cette bienheureuse année, nous avons causé littérature et musique, combien de fois!
— from The Lake by George Moore

His right rested on the village of Badara and his left on a mango-grove, both of which he occupied; while his front was covered by a broad, deep ravine behind which he posted his four guns.
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 2 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir

He was like a boat drifting rudderless upon the sea, the sport of every wind that blew.
— from Valeria, the Martyr of the Catacombs: A Tale of Early Christian Life in Rome by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

The new cover was a beautiful dark red, with the colors of the tapestry paper on the wall suggested and emphasized in the pattern.
— from The Wyndham Girls by Marion Ames Taggart

She let her hands drop again without reply, and Bernard de Rohan, who had remained in the shade, while the moonlight fell full upon her, could see her eyes suddenly turn towards the spot where he stood.
— from Corse de Leon; or, The Brigand: A Romance. Volume 1 (of 2) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Guyméné , Anne de Rohan, Princess de (sister-in-law of Madame de Chevreuse, and daughter-in-law of Madame Montbazon), her numerous crowd of old and young adorers, 37 ; her flirtation with Mazarin, 56 ; furious at having been abandoned by De Retz, offers the Queen to get him confined in a cellar, 209 .
— from Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, active 1840-1883

[449] “The grandeur of the fortress of Cuzco,” says Garcilasso de la Vega, “is incredible to those who have not seen it, and those who have examined it carefully might well imagine, and even believe, that it was made by some enchantment, and by demons rather than men.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

The old woman did as she was bid--going to the casement and gazing along a broad, dusty road, bordered by limes almost flowering in the warm May air, which led from the Downs above to the old house in which the Vauses had lived longer than even the parish records told of; and there, in the soft light of the fast-gathering twilight, she espied a horseman riding at a good pace; a man who, she could see very well, sat his horse easily, and seemed to extract a considerable speed from it without any effort of spur or rein.
— from Clash of Arms: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

As the electric current in the revolving copper plate occupies but a small space, proceeding by the poles and being discharged right and left at very small distances comparatively (123.); and as it exists in a thick mass of metal possessing almost the highest conducting power of any, and consequently offering extraordinary facility for its production and discharge; and as, notwithstanding this, considerable currents may be drawn off which can pass through narrow wires, forty, fifty, sixty, or even one hundred feet long; it is evident that the current existing in the plate itself must be a very powerful one, when the rotation is rapid and the magnet strong.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday