"Without taking into account," Ned answered, "that once we're out of this damned prison, we'll still be cooped up beneath the Ice Bank, without any possible contact with the open air!"
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

It was in the character of a private citizen that walking out privately he made use of his customary conveyances.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Imagine to yourself, Madam, how my little coquet heart fluttered with joy at the sight of a white lutestring, flowered with silver, scoured indeed, but passed on me for spick and span new, a Brussels lace cap, braited shoes, and the rest in proportion, all second-hand finery, and procured instantly for the occasion, by the diligence and industry of the good Mrs. Brown, who had already a chapman for me in the house, before whom my charms were to pass in review; for he had not only, in course, insisted on a previous sight of the premises, but also on immediate surrendering to him, in case of his agreeing for me; concluding very wisely, that such a place as I was in, was of the hottest to trust the keeping of such a perishable commodity in, as a maidenhead.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

He and the mender of roads sat on the heap of stones looking silently at one another, with the hail driving in between them like a pigmy charge of bayonets, until the sky began to clear over the village.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

I asked, perceiving Catherine to be checked in her friendly advances.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

In his speeches there were no flowery passages, no empty graces of style, but there was a plain common sense peculiar to himself, and a depth of sententious maxims which is said to have resembled Thucydides.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Hot it was for all parties concerned, but the gallant way in which the gunners worked their guns kept the French cavalry from reaching the infantry squares behind Mercer’s battery.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Qui autem parti civium consulunt, partem neglegunt, rem perniciosissimam in civitatem inducunt, seditionem atque discordiam; ex quo evenit, ut alii populares, alii studiosi optimi cuiusque videantur, pauci universorum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

— N. zoology, zoonomy[obs3], zoography[obs3], zootomy[obs3]; anatomy; comparative anatomy; animal physiology, comparative physiology; morphology; mammalogy.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The Aetna Powder Co. at the time we entered the war was manufacturing for the Russian Government tetranitroaniline that was to be used in the loading of boosters and fuses.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

they are party coloured; black white brown and brindle are the most usual colours.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

At another moment this would have grieved her, but in the ineffable hour she had now reached it was only a slight shadow, a passing cloud; and she had so much joy that this cloud lasted but a short time.
— from Les Misérables, v. 5/5: Jean Valjean by Victor Hugo

After minute inquiries, I found that the forest country commenced at a place called Waypoti, only a few miles beyond Pelah, but that, as the coast beyond that place was exposed to the east monsoon and dangerous for praus, it was necessary to walk.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

I did it, putting the article into the form of a parody on the "Burial of Sir John Moore"—and a pretty crude parody
— from Sketches New and Old, Part 2. by Mark Twain

Then, while Ruth literally held her there, Isabel cracked ice, put it in a green rubber bathing cap, that leaked like a sieve, tied it up most imperfectly, and presently clapped it on Nancy’s head.
— from Nancy Brandon by Lilian Garis

Such a people cannot be said to have always lived a life dictated and held together by force.
— from The Political Future of India by Lala Lajpat Rai

" A dreary voice from one of the bunks came: "Give 'im a pipe, Charlie, curse yer!
— from The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer

As soon as a pupil can copy an object correctly, so far as her own ideas go, she will at once perceive the utility of an art which, by stated rules, will enable her to test the accuracy of her proceedings.
— from Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia, Volume 48, March, 1854 by Various

It occurs not uncommonly in the creeks that penetrate into the Ganges delta and has been found in pools of brackish water at Port Canning.
— from Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale