Bosses of water at Belinsgate, by Powle’s wharf, and by St. Giles’ church without Cripplegate, made about the year 1423.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

These socially inherited accommodations have presumably grown up in the pains and struggles of previous generations, but they have been transmitted to and accepted by succeeding generations as part of the natural, inevitable social order.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I looked in the glass: a dull pallor covered my face, which preserved the traces of harassing sleeplessness; but my eyes, although encircled by a brownish shadow, glittered proudly and inexorably.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

To stifle beauty and to steal his breath, Who when he liv’d, his breath and beauty set Gloss on the rose, smell to the violet.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Every evening after supper the Beast came to see her, and always before saying good-night asked her in his terrible voice: “Beauty, will you marry me?”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

And Ráma by his darling's side Saw many a blissful season glide, Lodged in her soul, each thought on her, Lover, and friend, and worshipper.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He had retired to private prayer in his chamber, and Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw were engaging Missy’s attention by sundry gay trifles bought for her to present to the little Lintons, as an acknowledgment of their kindness.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

We should, after a brief struggle, go down as the brave man in the sewer went down, when the famished rats leaped upon him from every side at once, or as the stray buffalo goes down when the pack of ravenous wolves closes up its circle about him.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

But, as Byron says, greater "than this, than these, than all," are the wonderful phenomena which have occurred in the science of medicine.
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 4, December, 1834 by Various

Now, Jess, you and I are both smart girls, aren’t we?” demanded Bobby, roguishly.
— from The Girls of Central High on the Stage; Or, The Play That Took The Prize by Gertrude W. Morrison

The stream is so rapid that the walls built up on either side are preserved from being washed away by stone groins running out into the stream, and acting as so many breakwaters to keep the water in the centre.
— from Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy by George Edmund Street

One thing I remember—that one of her uncles was a big shot Government official, something like that—colonel or something like that.
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

All at once I heard a sound close behind me, and, being pretty excited anyhow and all on edge, I liked to have jumped up and hollered, but I didn’t, which was lucky, for it wasn’t anybody but Sammy, grinning away and plumb tickled to death with himself.
— from Mark Tidd: His Adventures and Strategies by Clarence Budington Kelland

If some outside people were asked to name in three lines the three chief trades of Birmingham they would probably answer by saying "Guns," "Hardware," and then, perhaps rather puzzled, might add "more guns.
— from A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" by Thomas Anderton

For, that very afternoon of the 21st, a British seaman gunner's cleverly planted bomb found out a French ship's magazine, exploded it with shattering force, and set fire to the ships on either side.
— from The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 by William Charles Henry Wood

I shall not even name the cases in which they have been made for the serious reason above specified; but even shall mask those which there was real occasion to alter, by sometimes giving new names in cases where there was no necessity of such kind.
— from Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew by John Ruskin