His ancestor, now pictured upon the wall, with all his English beef about him, used hardly to present a front extending from elbow to elbow of this chair, or a base that would cover its whole cushion.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The sea-fight having been a severe one, and many ships and lives having been lost on both sides, the victorious Syracusans and their allies now picked up their wrecks and dead, and sailed off to the city and set up a trophy.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

[1343] We thus see that close attention certainly affects various parts and organs, which are not properly under the control of the will.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Thus as regards the manifold of the latter it determines nothing, but must await this determination by the Judgement, which subsumes the empirical intuition (if the object is a natural product) under the concept.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The Roman captives and deserters were tempted to enlist in the service of a liberal and courteous adversary; the slaves were attracted by the firm and faithful promise, that they should never be delivered to their masters; and from the thousand warriors of Pavia, a new people, under the same appellation of Goths, was insensibly formed in the camp of Totila.
— 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

The masters are not pleased, unless they obtain a greater degree of subservience than that; and they are generally accommodated.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

This exaggerated estimation in which modern philosophers have held pity, is quite a new phenomenon: up to that time philosophers were absolutely unanimous as to the worthlessness of pity.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In the course of our dispute, I was not a little surprised to find this poor gentleman's memory so treacherous, as to let him forget what he had said to me, before he went out of town, in regard to Earl Sheerwit's opinion of my play, which he now professed himself ignorant of; and I was extremely mortified at hearing from his own mouth, that his interest with Mr. Vandal was so very low as to be insufficient of itself to bring a new piece upon the stage.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

There is a long row of them on each side of the caravan, a narrow passage up the middle, and a door at both ends.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

And now put up the box.
— from The Mississippi Bubble How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by a Woman's Grace, for One John Law of Lauriston by Emerson Hough

" They had eaten to heart's content, and now, packing up the remainder of the feast, the little party made ready to start.
— from The Royal Book of Oz In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island by Ruth Plumly Thompson

In Belgium, the indigent old people are not pensioned until they reach the age of 65.
— from The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies by Elie Metchnikoff

One man in a long canoe, which could have held forty or fifty, had clearly lost his head; he had been out in the stream before the massacre began, and now paddled up the river nowhere, and never looked to the drowning.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by David Livingstone

He awoke soon after I had left his rooms; he had another notice put up that he would lecture in his rooms.
— from Letters to His Friends by Forbes Robinson

It is therefore possible to imagine that the modifying effects of external influences upon the germ-plasm may be gradual and may increase in the course of generations, so that visible changes in the body ( soma ) are not produced until the effects have reached a certain intensity.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann

Shall I smite Judas also?' "'Nay, put up thy sword, Peter!
— from The Prince of the House of David by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

They either compromised their reputations by inferior work or they made a great hit and never played up to it, afterwards, in public opinion.
— from Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Richard Harding Davis