From some aperture or summit of observation, through parted bough or open window, she had doubtless caught a glimpse, remote or near, deceptive or instructive, of that night's transactions.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

But in the case of those who are very emaciated and who need a great restoration of nutrition, unless what was presented were many times greater than what has been emptied out, they would never be able to regain their original habit.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Out in the garden stood a stately snow-maiden, crowned with holly, bearing a basket of fruit and flowers in one hand, a great roll of new music in the other, a perfect rainbow of an Afghan round her chilly shoulders, and a Christmas carol issuing from her lips, on a pink paper streamer:— "THE JUNGFRAU TO BETH.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

On the other hand, a German, Russian, or Negro peasant of the southern states, different as each is in some respects, are all very much alike in certain habitual attitudes and sentiments.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

This was his offering of vengeance to the shade of his foster-father; and then he made his sons, Herlek and Gerit, rulers of Norway.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

With supper the sleepy feeling passed away, and Rory said he felt like a giant refreshed, only not quite so tall.
— from The Cruise of the Snowbird: A Story of Arctic Adventure by Gordon Stables

Marius the sonne of Aruiragus, being king of all Britaine, in his time one Roderike a Scithian, with a great rabble of néedie souldiours, came to the water of Frith in Scotland, which is an arme of the sea, diuiding Pentland from Fiffe: against whome this Marius assembled a power, by which he slue this Rodericke, and discomfited his people in Westmerland:
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

Something happens that doesn’t happen every day, and then somebody’ll guess one way and somebody another way, and the first thing you know there’s a great rumpus over nothing.
— from Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country by Joel Chandler Harris

And while the solution put forward by a romantic lady's-maid, a great reader of novelettes, that the young man had come there to cure himself of some unhappy passion by communing with nature, had been scoffed at by the company, Keggs had not been so sure that there might not be something in it.
— from A Damsel in Distress by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Williams and Duval, of the Maryland troops, were killed; and Gen. Rutherford, of North Carolina, and Maj. Thomas Pinckney, of South Carolina, were wounded, and taken prisoners.
— from A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a History of His Brigade by William Dobein James

At midnight of March 21, Charles Albert had to order a general retreat on Novara.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

You see he's had so many advantages; he was only ten years old when they discovered coal on their land and got rich over night.
— from Her Husband's Purse by Helen Reimensnyder Martin

Midas was credited with the invention of the particular flute upon which he won renown; and it may have been that Pindar intentionally specified it, and that it may have consisted in the application of a free reed of slender brass to obtain a greater range of notes.
— from The World's Earliest Music Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and Sumer by Hermann Smith