It gave a few fiery leaps forward, stumbled, and fell to its knees.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

The second, the Honourable John, got a fine fortune left him by a relative, and went into the army.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

But I wished her to have a friend for life,–who would cherish her, who would do her more justice than a coarse and narrow-minded brother, that she has always lavished her affections on."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Then get a lot of strong poles, about five feet long, and lay them close together along the two sides of the roof till it is covered with poles; putting a very heavy one, or small log, on the outer edge of each, and fastening it down with a pin into the ridge log.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

They are my whole business, and, far from lamenting for having been seduced, I sigh for having lost them.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

“But I had a fancy for looking up here.”
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

—We lost it, an’ please your honour, somehow betwixt us—but your honour was as free from love then, as I am——’twas just whilst thou went’st off with the wheel-barrow——with Mrs. Wadman, quoth my uncle Toby ——She has left a ball here—added my uncle Toby —pointing to his breast—— ——She can no more, an’ please your honour, stand a siege, than she can fly—cried the corporal—— ——But as we are neighbours, Trim, —the best way I think is to let her know it civilly first—quoth my uncle Toby.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

In this body are fifty-three deities, who are liable to disturbance when the surface of the earth is dug, when trees are felled, foundations laid, and a house built.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

We pray you throw to earth This vnpreuayling woe, and thinke of vs As of a Father; For let the world take note, You are the most immediate to our Throne,[2]
— from The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by William Shakespeare

This, when completed, gave us an enclosed cricket alley of about forty feet long, eight feet wide and ten feet high.
— from A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson by Adrian Constantine Anson

After five years he removed to Litchfield; and to him succeeded, in 1762, as by a kind of exchange, the Rev. Thomas Davies, whose grandfather and father, faithful laymen, had founded the parishes in Litchfield and Washington.
— from Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and Reminiscences by Various

And then, before Bobby had realized it could be so late, a first, faint, long-drawn and peculiar shout began far away; grew steadily in volume.
— from The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Stewart Edward White

Concerning "A Certain Person" The Secret of the Black Box Up a Tree Three Ships The Man with the King's Evil "Too Late" The Plotters A Fight for Life The Shadow of Death
— from The Black Box: A Tale of Monmouth's Rebellion by W. Bourne Cooke

In 1895 there is still less legislation; only a statute for State arbitration, against payment of wages in store orders, against discrimination against unions, and for factory legislation may be noted.
— from Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute by Frederic Jesup Stimson

He looked round, and a female figure, loosely enveloped in a dark cloak, had rescued them from death.
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby

But, at least, it may be said, let those who now hold the beautiful and frequently fertile lands, which once belonged to the poor and helpless native, beware of having their hearts lifted up with pride,—of forgetting themselves or their God.
— from Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants by W. (William) Pridden

Miss Willard then quoted a few familiar lines ending with the sentence, "And Susan B. Anthony has been ordained of God to lead us on."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The following article by Brigadier-General A. G. Wauchope, C.M.G., D.S.O. , is here republished with permission: There stretches, some sixty miles north of Baghdad, from the Tigris to the Euphrates, a famous fortified line known to the Greeks as the Median Wall.
— from With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917 by Anonymous