This officer had, at his disposal, a national guard of several hundred men, organised by his own orders.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Alexius, apprehensive of a second attack, had assiduously labored to restore the naval forces of the empire; and obtained from the republic of Venice an important succor of thirty-six transports, fourteen galleys, and nine galiots or ships of extra-ordinary strength and magnitude.
— 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 now going on shore to stand a drink to everybody here.” H2 anchor CHAPTER XIII.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

In the need of poems, philosophy, politics, mechanism, science, behavior, the craft of art, an appropriate native grand opera, shipcraft, or any craft, he is greatest for ever and ever who contributes the greatest original practical example.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

And yet if any creature had been guileless enough to intimate that his absorbing nine gallons of “straight” whiskey during our voyage was any fraction short of rigid or inflexible abstemiousness, in that self-same moment the old man would have spun him to the uttermost parts of the earth in the whirlwind of his wrath.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

V. produce sound; sound, make a noise; give out sound, emit sound; resound &c. 408.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

“You are not going one step out of this house to-night—you can make up your mind to that—not one step.
— from The Torch Bearer: A Camp Fire Girls' Story by I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston

After paraffin, the heavy lubricating oils are next given off, still increasing the temperature, and, the residue being in turn subjected to a very low temperature, the white solid substance known as paraffin, so much used for making candles, is the result.
— from The Story of a Piece of Coal: What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes by Edward A. (Edward Alfred) Martin

The American army came in tidal waves across the Atlantic, flooded our back areas, reached the edge of the battlefields, were a new guaranty of strength.
— from Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs

When I lifted my bowed head Peter Kennedy was there, very pitiful as I could see by his eyes, and with a new gift of silence.
— from Twilight by Julia Frankau

"I am not going outside," Sir Eustace said, with exasperating coolness.
— from Greatheart by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

There was no garden, and the front door was usually encumbered by a noisy group of stark-naked little darkies of both sexes, whom we generally caught tormenting some queer-looking animal which they had caught in the fields—a land tortoise or a baby iguana.
— from Cuba Past and Present by Richard Davey

People tell me that a new generation only smiles at the traditional glory of Sarah Siddons.
— from John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

You will read the whole of his Diary and not get one smile from his severe countenance.
— from Leaves in the Wind by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner