There was a hue and cry, and a score of men and boys started in chase of him; but he came to an alley, and then to another branching off from it and leading him into another street, where he fell into a walk, and slipped his cabbage under his coat and went off unsuspected in the crowd.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

I thank thee, gentle Percy; and be sure I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends; And as my fortune ripens with thy love, It shall be still thy true love's recompense.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Association by contiguity is contact in the direct sense, and association by similarity is contact in the transferred sense.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

The boiler is fixed on a seating of fire-bricks, so built up as to form three flues, A and BB , shown in cross section in Fig.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

the ammunition being Secured in Canesters the water did not effect it.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Imperii, l. ii. c. 44, p. 119,) and the Byzantines of the xith century, under the name of Mantzikierte, and by some is confounded with Theodosiopolis; but Delisle, in his notes and maps, has very properly fixed the situation.
— 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

No manner of means used to quench the fire No money to do it with, nor anybody to trust us without it Not being well pleased with her over free and loose company Not permit her begin to do so, lest worse should follow Now very big, and within a fortnight of lying down Offered to stop the fire near his house for such a reward Origin in the use of a plane against the grain of the wood Out also to and fro, to see and be seen Pain to ride in a coach with them, for fear of being seen Peace with France, which, as a Presbyterian, he do not like Play on the harpsicon, till she tired everybody Plot in it, and that the French had done it Providing against a foule day to get as much money into my hands Put up with too much care, that I have forgot where they are Rather hear a cat mew, than the best musique in the world Reading over my dear “Faber fortunae,” of my Lord Bacon’s Reading to my wife and brother something in Chaucer Rejoiced over head and ears in this good newes Removing goods from one burned house to another Requisite
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Accompanied by Schmitt, I called this dangerous person to account on the subject in his own home.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

It is a general practice, indeed, with girls of humble rank in her unhappy condition, not (as novel-reading women of higher pretensions) to style themselves Miss Douglas , Miss Montague , &c., but simply by their Christian names— Mary , Jane , Frances , &c. Her surname, as the surest means of tracing her hereafter, I ought now to have inquired; but the truth is, having no reason to think that our meeting could, in consequence of a short interruption, be more difficult or uncertain than it had been for so many weeks, I had scarcely for a moment adverted to it as necessary, or placed it amongst my memoranda against this parting interview; and my final anxieties being spent in comforting her with hopes, and in pressing upon her the necessity of getting some medicines for a violent cough and hoarseness with which she was troubled, I wholly forgot it until it was too late to recall her.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Since then such a blind submission is commonly due to magistracy, the next question is, to whom it is due, and whom we are to regard as our lawful magistrates?
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Next to our tent was the marquee of Captain de Morel, aide-de-camp to Adjutant-General Estcourt, fluttering on the ground, and, as I looked, the canvas was animated by some internal convulsion—a mimic volcano appeared to be opening, its folds assumed fantastic shapes, tossing wildly in the storm.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

And Foullepointe executes his retreat, leaving a bitter suspicion in Caroline's soul, as to the question whether her husband is really as handsome as she thinks him.
— from Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part by Honoré de Balzac

The Scottish Gipsies, when their appearance has been modified by a mixture of the white blood, have possessed, in common with the Highlanders, the faculty of “getting out” of the original ways of their race, and becoming superior in character, notwithstanding the excessive prejudice that exists against the nation of which they hold themselves members.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson

“But these natives use paints themselves to color their faces and bodies, so I can’t understand how you fooled them with a dye.”
— from Brazilian Gold Mine Mystery: A Biff Brewster Mystery Adventure by Andy Adams

In one respect the negro had a better standing in court than the white: he was a competent witness in his own behalf, and his wife might also be a witness.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

“A bold stroke indeed, cardinal,” the queen said, much gratified.
— from Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The land to which most of the Russian convicts are banished, Siberia, is, curiously enough, less dangerous for a traveller than the European possessions of the czar.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

Her husband, poor as he was, sustained the credit of aristocracy by smoking innumerable cigarettes, with which he appeared to be most plentifully supplied.
— from Mr. Bingle by George Barr McCutcheon

But it’s all over now, and I’m not a bit sorry, I can tell you.
— from The Boy Inventors' Diving Torpedo Boat by Richard Bonner

He fired twice again at the balloon bag, and Pauline, clinging to his shoulder saw the monster that had held her a slave to its elemental power, that, like some winged gorgon had held her captive in the labyrinth of air, crumple and wither and fall at the prick of a bullet; saw it collapse into a mass of tangled leather and rope and slide in final ruin down the smooth cliff.
— from The Perils of Pauline by Charles Goddard