Ripe apples drop about my head.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Now a Divine Angel met her, as she was going forward in the wilderness, and bid her return to her master and mistress, for if she would submit to that wise advice, she would live better hereafter; for that the reason of her being in such a miserable case was this, that she had been ungrateful and arrogant towards her mistress.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I must now write a concise account of the state of my affairs to Howard Grove, and to Madame Duval. Adieu, dearest and most honoured Sir!
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

As soon as Diocletian and Maximian had resigned the purple, their station, according to the rules of the new constitution, was filled by the two Cæsars, Constantius and Galerius, who immediately assumed the title of Augustus.
— 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

When I lighted on some rake or tradesman reeling home drunk, I frequently suffered the most brutal treatment, in spite of which I was obliged to affect gaiety and good humour, though my soul was stung with resentment and disdain, and my heart loaded with grief and affliction.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Up and to church without my wife, she being all dirty, as my house is.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And this salutation was done in a place of a great altar of a fair church that was wont to be sometime, but it is now all down, and men have made a little receipt, beside a pillar of that church, to receive the offerings of pilgrims.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

“And soldiers,” I added, drawing a military hat with plumes.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This sent the horses of both prisoners into a dance, and Madrid had to rein out of the way.
— from The High Hander by William Oliver Turner

When a man feels in himself the upheaval of a new moral fact, he sees plainly enough that that fact cannot come into the actual world all at once—not without first a destruction of the existing order of society—such a destruction as makes him feel satanic; then an intellectual revolution; and lastly only, a new order embodying the new impulse.
— from Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays by Edward Carpenter

Milburd is more attentive to the latter than Chilvern, who seems to me to be making up to Miss Medford, if to anyone; 208 while Byrton sits next to Miss Bella at dinner, and monopolizes her entirely.
— from Happy-Thought Hall by F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

There in the painted hall he sat again, And 'neath the pictured eyes of Charlemaine He ate and drank, and felt it like a dream; And midst his growing longings yet might deem That he from sleep should wake up presently In some fair city on the Syrian sea, Or on the brown rocks of the loadstone isle.
— from The Earthly Paradise: A Poem (Part II) by William Morris

"Give the man something to eat and drink and make him comfortable.
— from Leslie's Loyalty by Charles Garvice

On one occasion, while touring among the frontier villages, I was spending the night at a hujra , and after dark a Mullah had come in for discussion, and a great number of the men of the village, attracted by the hope of an interesting conflict between their champion and the Padre Sahib , had collected to listen.
— from Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell

Dr. McAllister very kindly accorded me his permission, placing at my disposal an ambulance and a driver, advising me, however, not to follow the main road or the beaten track which had already been drained by foragers, but to go deep into the piny woods.
— from Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Fannie A. Beers

Again and again the morning appeared and brought to light many new cities and districts, and many hills and rivers; which he passed over bravely for twelve repeated days and nights.
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki