Then the man thought of what he had been reading in the town, that William Tell and Holger Danske never really lived, but yet live in popular story, like the lake yonder, a living evidence for such myths.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Priests in black, with silver-buckled shoes; line soldiers, slouchy and rakish; neat girls without hats bearing milliners' boxes, students with black portfolios and high hats, students with bérets and big canes, nervous, quick-stepping officers, symphonies in turquoise and silver; ponderous jangling cavalrymen all over dust, pastry cooks' boys skipping along with utter disregard for the safety of the basket balanced on the impish head, and then the lean outcast, the shambling Paris tramp, slouching with shoulders bent and little eye furtively scanning the ground for smokers' refuse;—all these moved in a steady stream across the fountain circle and out into the city by the Odeon, whose long arcades were now beginning to flicker with gas-jets.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The robber, [649] when his words were ended so, Made both the figs and lifted either fist, Shouting: ‘There, God!
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Prince required but slight attention, lacking energy for superfluous movements of any sort.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

'And lo, escaped from slaughtering Pyrrhus through the weapons of the enemy, Polites, one of Priam's children, flies wounded down the long colonnades and circles the empty halls.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Thence to my Lord’s, where we found my Lady gone with some company to see Hampton Court, so we three went to Blackfryers (the first time I ever was there since plays begun), and there after great patience and little expectation, from so poor beginning, I saw three acts of “The Mayd in ye Mill” acted to my great content.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The crowd was now formed in a line, extending for several blocks, with half a hundred policemen keeping guard, and so there was nothing for them to do but to take their places at the end of it.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

After a while the tables and other parts of the setting, besides the name, grow so multifarious as not to come up distinctly into consciousness; but pari passu with this, the adhesion of each wine with its own name becomes more and more inveterate, and at last each flavor suggests instantly and certainly its own name and nothing else.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

In 1780 he married in New York Mary, daughter of Andrew Heatly, a member of a family originally settled at Mellerston, Co. Berwick, where they had held a landed estate for some four centuries.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

He then left her, with a heart, so much lightened by this short respite, that he almost lost every former sense of misfortune.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Teresina, taller and slighter, with a long earnest face, spoke, in the intervals, very little, but much more comprehensibly.
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

Thence to my Lord's, where we found my Lady gone with some company to see Hampton Court, so we three went to Blackfryers (the first time I ever was there since plays begun), and there after great patience and little expectation, from so poor beginning, I saw three acts of "The Mayd in ye Mill" acted to my great content.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

[104] Robledo was on the Rio Grande at the site where the Americans later erected Fort Selden.
— from Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839, part 2 by Josiah Gregg

But there I fear (and I only tell you my fears and open my soul to you) the heart has none of those instantaneous feelings, that life-blood, that keen sensibility, that bursts at once from genius, and, like electrical fire, shoots through the veins, marrow, bones, and all, of every spectator.
— from Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

Obnoxious as a Radical, he was at last entrapped for selling Tom Paine's "Rights of Man," and was sent to gaol for eighteen months, where he was visited by Lord Moira, the Duke of Norfolk, and other advanced men of the day.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

I am leaving England for some time, but that address will find me.
— from Lady Huntworth's Experiment: An original comedy in three acts by R. C. (Richard Claude) Carton

Evidently Frank was trying to discover the real motives actuating Mr. Marsh when he so suddenly decided to remain around Bloomsbury a few days, and made such a lame excuse for so doing.
— from The Airplane Boys among the Clouds Or, Young Aviators in a Wreck by John Luther Langworthy

The Examiner , however, had not a long existence, for Sir Francis Hincks—we give him his later title, won after years of useful public service as journalist and statesman—proceeded, in 1843, to Montreal, where he established the Pilot , which had much influence as an organ of the party led by Baldwin and Lafontaine.
— from The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People: An Historical Review by John George Bourinot

Now, this is especially true of mid-ocean volcanoes of the Pacific which lie along lines extending from southeast to northwest, or from northeast to southwest, though mainly along the former.
— from The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Edwin J. (Edwin James) Houston