Coming later, Captain Cook in 1774, Rear Admiral d'Entrecasteaux in 1793, and finally Captain Dumont d'Urville in 1827, untangled the whole chaotic geography of this island group.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

ANT: Face, confront, defy, dare.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Nevertheless from the other intellectual gods also, forces clearly discernible descend to this world.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Jehan flung back his blonde and curly head, and said, half-closing his eyes disdainfully,— “We have a brother who is an archdeacon and a fool.” “ Corne de Dieu !”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

She had a floating conception during dinner of old mahogany, silver, and armor.
— from Her Lord and Master by Martha Morton

Slavery is to us, as a great subterraneous fire, which is ever ready to burst upon us with volcanic violence, deluging our country with boiling lava, red hot stones, smoke and flames; carrying devastation, death and destruction in its train.
— from A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery by A. Woodward

I saw no wild or independent Indian; indeed, I hear that such avoid the neighbourhood of the train; but now and again at way stations, a husband and wife and a few children, disgracefully dressed out with the sweepings of civilisation, came forth and stared upon the emigrants.
— from Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson

There was an ordinary kitchen cupboard with a few cracked dirty dishes in it, and beside it on a tall box a tin washbasin.
— from The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories by Willa Cather

Somewhere short of Sproutgreen he perceived a figure coming distantly down the road in his direction.
— from The Post-Girl by Edward Charles Booth

When the populace, elated at this, asked that in addition to it rewards be offered to servants for information against their masters, he refused to add such a clause to the law and furthermore called down dire destruction upon himself if he should ever trust a slave speaking against his master.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Two separate Cities, not twins—but one of ancient and one of modern birth—how harmoniously, in spite of form and features characteristically different, do they coalesce into one Capital!
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

The reason for this cessation of communication was briefly as follows: Captain Diaz de Velasco sent Cuixam ahead, as had been planned, to Tayasal.
— from History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Philip Ainsworth Means

But, mamma, her hand is, oh, so very cold!" While mamma still hesitated what to think and what to do, the street-gate was thrown open, and the father of Violet and Peony appeared, wrapped in a pilot-cloth sack, with a fur cap drawn down over his ears, and the thickest of gloves upon his hands.
— from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne