At length when they found they were likely to be really in want, they got together, as a last effort, eight or ten pistoles, with which Porthos went to the gaming table.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Yet, before he retired, Vitiges made a last effort, either to storm or to surprise the city.
— 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

But this I heard her say, and can't be wrong And all may think which way their judgments lean 'em, ''T is strange—the Hebrew noun which means "I am," The English always use to govern d--n.' Some women use their tongues—she look'd a lecture, Each eye a sermon, and her brow a homily, An all-in-all sufficient self-director, Like the lamented late Sir Samuel Romilly, The Law's expounder, and the State's corrector, Whose suicide was almost an anomaly— One sad example more, that 'All is vanity' (The jury brought their verdict in 'Insanity').
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The next step was to pass to symbolical language and expressions; for a plain and literal exposition, even if understood at all, would at least have been listened to with indifference, as not corresponding with any mental demand.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

“She says, sir, that she’ll have no gentlemen; they need not trouble themselves to come near her; nor,” he added, with difficulty suppressing a titter, “any ladies either, except the young, and single.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Aristocracy, like everything else, has no practical force save that which mechanical causes endow it with.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

A loud explosion ensued, and I clearly remember seeing the brown man leap out into the fog—which was the last I saw of him.
— from The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer

A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

Una was now seventeen, a slender, limp creature, with languor and want of strength apparent in every gesture, and a look of extreme delicacy in her pale face and large eager eyes.
— from Amethyst: The Story of a Beauty by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

[343] As always happens when the cry of wolf is raised, "the most guilty and foremost and loudest in the cry", those who were denouncing French influence, were to a large extent English propagandists and not of the best type.
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

De Quinto fratre scito eum non mediocriter laborare de versura, sed adhuc nihil a L. Egnatio expressit.
— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He ordered the road cleared, and we arrived in Baltimore with the first section only a little late, and, with a little extra energy, we had the parade out on time and opened the doors to the morning performance at ten A.M.
— from Sawdust & Spangles: Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. (William Cameron) Coup

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $39 million (FY97/98) Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 2.1% (FY97/98) Transnational Issues Burma Disputes - international: despite renewed border committee talks, significant differences remain with Thailand over boundary alignment and the handling of ethnic guerrilla rebels, refugees, smuggling, and drug trafficking in cross-border region; Burmese attempts to construct a dam on border stream with Bangladesh in 2001 prompted an armed response halting construction; Burmese Muslim migration into Bangladesh strains Bangladesh's meager resources Illicit drugs: world's largest producer of illicit opium, surpassing Afghanistan (potential production in 2001 - 865 metric tons, down 21% due to drought, and to a lesser extent, eradication; cultivation in 2002 - 105,000 hectares, a 3% decline from 2000); surrender of drug warlord KHUN SA's Mong Tai Army in January 1996 was hailed by Rangoon as a major counternarcotics success, but lack of government will and ability to take on major narcotrafficking groups and lack of serious commitment against money laundering continues to hinder the overall antidrug effort;
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

A little enquiry elicits the fact that John Farley was official scribe of that University near the end of the fifteenth century.
— from The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

You are told they are affected by rain, and an attempt has been made to cover them; but the wind will affect them; and any gale of wind which would affect the traffic on the Mersey would render it impossible to set off a locomotive engine, either by poking of the fire, or keeping up the pressure of the steam till the boiler was ready to burst.”
— from Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles

We had dined together on this evening; I smoked my cigar and listened; everybody else had finished, and departed; properly speaking, the salle-à-manger was shut.
— from Lucinda by Anthony Hope