[2] al hombre de cerebro fecundo y centelleante que hizo, de la palabra, antorcha, y del pensamiento, luminoso penacho.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

A horrible doubt came into my mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, or who would venture to set him free.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Our good child ransacked all her drawers, cupboards, reticules, and gimcrack boxes—passed in review all her gowns, fichus, tags, bobbins, laces, silk stockings, and fallals—selecting this thing and that and the other, to make a little heap for Rebecca.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Alexander rose early: the first moments of the day were consecrated to private devotion, and his domestic chapel was filled with the images of those heroes, who, by improving or reforming human life, had deserved the grateful reverence of posterity.
— 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

I am almost the nearest relation he has in the world, and am entitled to know all his dearest concerns."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Sigurd Ring a Suitor After his departure came messengers from Sigurd Ring, the aged King of Ringric, in Norway, who, having lost his wife, sent to Helgé and Halfdan to ask [ 309 ] Ingeborg’s hand in marriage.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

After his dinner Charles went up there.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The wounded are the pick of the army; all our superior officers, all our picked generals are hors de combat ; those who have come to me are so incompetent, and they have not the soldiers' confidence.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

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— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

"I feel as if I had collected about all the damage I want for a few days," muttered Bayliss, gazing down ruefully at his drenched clothing and water-logged shoes.
— from The High School Boys' Fishing Trip by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Christ is the surety of them, and so the certainty and stability of them depend upon him, at least to our sense, for God in all his dealing condescends to our weakness that we may have strong consolation.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Two thousand six hundred men are hors de combat ; and the chivalrous Potty is himself seriously hurt.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 22 Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson

At the sixth shot the miserable villain made a feeble attempt to regain his former position, but ere he had ascended another two feet a shot struck him in the back of the head, and he tumbled to the bottom of the bank a hideously disfigured corpse.
— from A Lad of Grit: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

CHAPMAN COLEMAN AND HER DAUGHTERS CONTENTS.
— from Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

He had got close enough to see that there were more than a half dozen combatants firing on Judson's cabin from toward the hill.
— from The Nightriders' Feud by Walter Caruth McConnell

an' I wish how dis same wretch might hab de feber long o' de oder two, an' how I might die long of 'em, and how we might all go up to Marster's trone, and have de case 'cided whose wife dis 'ooman is for to be."
— from The Haunted Homestead: A Novel by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Afterwards, when Ahab went out to recover Ramoth Gilead, wilfully trusting to lying prophets, and silencing the true one, not all his disguise could avail to protect him; he was slain in the battle; and when his chariot was washed, the dogs licked his blood, as they had licked that of his victim Naboth.
— from The Chosen People: A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Placing his hands under the armpits, he dragged Chevalier with the minutest precautions into the room at the side.
— from A Mummer's Tale by Anatole France

Now for a while Œdipus reigned in great power and glory; but afterwards his doom came upon him, so that in his madness he put out his own eyes.
— from Stories of the Old World by Alfred John Church