A chord, longdrawn, expectant, drew a voice away. — When first I saw that form endearing ... Richie turned.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Lucky if Maître Denis, the turnkey, remembers to bring down a coarse loaf each day, and if the rats do not devour the prisoners' toes; but we shall consider all such nice matters later [6] .
— from Life on a Mediaeval Barony A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century by William Stearns Davis

These plans, still far from realization, do not deprive the Ramos Mejia lines of their character as colonization lines, entirely devoted at present to conveying the timber of the Chaco and the wool of Patagonia.
— from The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress by Pierre Denis

On a fly-leaf I find the following written by an unknown hand: "Commentarios in hoc epitaphium scripserunt Joannes Trevius Brugensis, et Richardus vitus Basinstochius, jurisconsultus Anglus cujus liber editus Durdrecti apud J. van Leonem Berawoul, Anno 1618.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Here you see, in the midst of the loneliness, a grim-looking barrack, that was erected when, after the Rebellion, it was necessary for some time to occupy this most rebellious country; and a church, looking equally dismal, a lean-looking, sham-Gothic building, in the midst of this green desert.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray