It struck me with dismay, at the moment, when I took it from the box and beheld those eyes fixed upon me in their mocking mirth, as if exulting still in his power to control my fate, and deriding my efforts to escape.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground, where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

Nam forte quadam, priusquam infanda merces perficeretur, per altercationem nondum omni auro appenso dictator intervenit auferrique aurum de medio et
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

After the table had been cleared, Cortes, with the assistance of Aguilar and Doña Marina, entered into conversation with the Mexican officials and the caziques, telling them we were Christians, and subjects of the greatest monarch of the world, whose name was emperor Charles, and that he had many great personages among his vassals and servants.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

[ Montesquieu relates and explains this fact in a different marnes Esprit des Loix, l. xvi.
— 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

* * *— At Aix—The Young Boarder—Lyons—Paris This citation, which did not promise to lead to anything agreeable, surprised and displeased me exceedingly.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And if you send him away, we know no one who can watch him so that he will not in all probability escape; and if once he gets loose he will assemble a great multitude, and do much evil.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

thought Susan, when she saw the head-waiter come forward so smilingly to meet Ella and herself at the Palm Garden; when Leonard put off a dozen meekly enduring women to finish Miss Emily Saunders' gown on time; when the very sexton at church came hurrying to escort Mrs. Saunders and herself through the disappointed crowds in the aisles, and establish them in, and lock them in, the big empty pew.
— from Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris

If he compute the area of the basin which finds here its only discharge, he will perceive that a sudden thaw of the winter's deposit of snow, or one of those terrible discharges of rain so common in the Alps, must send forth a deluge mighty enough to sweep down the largest masses of gravel and of rock.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

"Sometimes, Walter, I feel that I ought to give up this outside activity and devote myself entirely to research.
— from The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

A dreary morrow ensued on the splendid night.
— from The Raid of The Guerilla, and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

The result was disastrous; she has been in a doleful mood ever since, and yesterday assured Mrs. Tolbridge that if it should prove that Mrs. Drane and her daughter, who had been so good to her, had become so poor that they could not afford to employ a servant, she must leave us and go to them.
— from The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton

As one way of turning pirates to some useful account, these forgiven rogues were promptly drafted into the royal navy as able seamen, and doubtless made excellent food for powder.
— from The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine

Readily differentiated from P. elongata , which it resembles in its pale, translucent appearance, in having the distal appendage of setae more typical, being of a decidedly more elongate and erect form which also differs from that of pigmentata .
— from Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 1919 by Various

Grand Vizier directed a letter to the Pasha, of which the following is a translation:— "His Excellency, the Ambassador of Great Britain, to the Sublime Porte, stated in a letter which he presented, that Sir Moses Montefiore, Mr David William Wire, and Dr Madden, English subjects and distinguished members of s
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

I shall take her away as quickly as possible and devote my every thought to her.
— from The Grey Room by Eden Phillpotts

Night and Day meet each other at that place, as they pass a threshold of bronze.
— from The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum