Some attempted to ride back to the Hall, but on a pistol being fired from behind the gate, they conceived themselves surrounded, and at length galloped of in different directions.
— from Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Walter Scott

That man,' she made a little gesture of infinite disdain towards Nicholas, 'is lying.
— from The Chevalier d'Auriac by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats

Such a clear blue sky, such brilliant sunshine, and so calm a sea pointed emphatically to an excursion by water, and Miss Birks at once decided to hire boats, and take the school for a picnic to a little group of islets due west of the headland.
— from The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil

The intentions will, no doubt, count for something, though, of course, every nation’s conquests are paved with good intentions; or it may be that the Recording Angel, looking compassionately at the strife of hearts, may disdain to enter into the Eternal Book the facts of a struggle which has the reward of its righteousness even on this earth—in victory and lasting greatness, or in defeat and humiliation.
— from Notes on Life & Letters by Joseph Conrad

It must be remembered that the tubercle bacillus causes not merely disease of the lungs in children but also a large majority of the crippling diseases of the bones, joints, and spine, together with the whole group of strumous or scrofulous disorders, and a large group of intestinal diseases and of brain lesions, resulting in convulsions, paralysis, hydrocephalus, and death.
— from Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson

But I neither cared nor wondered: I caught sight of my uncle’s face again––half amazed, wholly despondent, but yet with a little glint of incredulous delight playing, in brief flashes, upon it––and I could think of nothing else, not even of Judith, in her agony of mysterious shame upon the Whisper Cove road, nor of her disquieting absence from the house, nor of the rising wind, nor of the drear world I must courageously face when I should awake from that night’s sleep.
— from The Cruise of the Shining Light by Norman Duncan

The well stood idle until 1892, when J. Hovey, an ex-broker from New York and relative of a late Governor of Indiana, drilled a short distance down the creek.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

To their right the statue of Achilles loomed grimly on its deserted hillock.
— from The White Dove by William John Locke

All this he had told, little by little; and of the Queen's noble bearing upon the scaffold, her utter fearlessness, her protestations that she died for her religion and for that only, and of the pesterings of Dr. Fletcher, Dean of Peterborough, who had at last given over in despair, and prayed instead.
— from Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson