The human part of the life-guard was now disbanded, and set to work cultivating the soil, and raising potatoes; the regular army now solely consisting of the dog-regiment.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable of being done; those on deck rushed towards the bows, and stood eyeing the boom as if it were the lower jaw of an exasperated whale.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The differing shapes of the helmet, and of the coronet and the mantling, and the different representation of the crest, show that, although depicted in his Garter robes, upon his effigy the helmet, crest, and mantling upon which the earl's head there rests, and the representations of the same upon the Garter plate, are not slavish copies of the same original model.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Then the King caused it to be proclaimed that whosoever could discover where they danced at night, should choose one of them for his wife and be King after his death, but that whosoever came forward and had not discovered it within three days and nights, should have forfeited his life.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

A new sensation came over him, filling his heart and soul with infinite anguish.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hitherto they had only wild beasts to guard against, and now six convicts of the worst description, perhaps, were roaming over their island.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

I would play, and I was wrong, for I had neither prudence enough to leave off when fortune was adverse, nor sufficient control over myself to stop when I had won.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

THE EXAMPLE ILLUSTRATED The main border stripe carries a meandering vine with a pear-shaped leaf at each turn and on either side of it is a narrow stripe consisting of floral forms which are connected by leaves arranged in the form of a meander.
— from The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs by G. Griffin (George Griffin) Lewis

“I am not so certain of that,” she replied.
— from The Story of a Country Town by E. W. (Edgar Watson) Howe

Rabbi Shachor, chairman of the Hebrew Teachers' Association of Yekaterinoslav, was instrumental in opening a normal school conducted on Chautauqua principles, and so advanced the cause of education considerably.
— from The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin

At length I reached a new scene, consisting of sand-hills, out of which issued springs of water, uniting at a short distance, where they formed a stream, which appeared to wind over an open country.
— from The Emigrant's Lost Son; or, Life Alone in the Forest by Anonymous

“My manners not bearing any comparison with yours,” replied Hamilton, coolly, “I am not so chary of contamination.”
— from Louis' School Days: A Story for Boys by E. J. (Edith J.) May

' It was in the park, but it was getting dusky, and lovers in London are not so careful of secrecy as in the unsophisticated and less limited country.
— from Babylon, Volume 1 by Grant Allen

It goes like this: "Oh, Fritzie that hands those Blighties out so free, Just send a nice sweet cushy one to me-- One that will strike me just below the knee.
— from Into the Jaws of Death by Jack O'Brien