A little dose, as Pierre Huber expresses it, of judgment or reason, often comes into play, even in animals very low in the scale of nature.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

That abstracted pedestrian had edged into the slit by the adroit fillip of his person sideways; from the slit he edged into the tavern by a similar exercise of skill.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The Flemings, whose obedience to their count was voluntary and precarious, had embarked in their vessels for the long navigation of the ocean and Mediterranean; and many of the French and Italians had preferred a cheaper and more convenient passage from Marseilles and Apulia to the Holy Land.
— 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 house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these things: how it had been built under Edward the Sixth, had offered a night’s hospitality to the great Elizabeth (whose august person had extended itself upon a huge, magnificent and terribly angular bed which still formed the principal honour of the sleeping apartments), had been a good deal bruised and defaced in Cromwell’s wars, and then, under the Restoration, repaired and much enlarged; and how, finally, after having been remodelled and disfigured in the eighteenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumstances too complicated to set forth)
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

It has thus been shown first , that Essene Judaism was Gnostic in its character; and secondly , that this type of Jewish thought and practice had established itself in the Apostolic age in those parts of Asia Minor with which we are more directly concerned.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

In many parts of the world that night a pallid halo encircled it about.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

This corrupt Attendant placed him early in the Morning behind the Hangings in her Mistress's Dressing-Room.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

He calumniated him, persecuted him, raised up against him all the ignorant by availing himself of the sanctity of his position; he outraged his tomb, dishonored his memory, and persecuted him even in the sleep of death!
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

No human being could by any possibility have existed in that subterranean world!
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

But these campaigns also, if they had not led to peace, would in all probability have ended in similar catastrophes.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

For close in the wake of Portugal and Spain came France and England, and presently Holland, each in its turn taking up the rôle of expansion {v2-194} and empire overseas.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

How he had pegged shoes and poured his excitement, in vivid language, into the ears of the east-side loafers in the shoe-shop!
— from Port Argent: A Novel by Arthur Colton

To this valorous vikingr, so renowned for his perilous adventures and daring deeds, Tostig came for assistance, promising him England if he could but win it.
— from History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest Second Edition by Thomas Miller

But another current of air prevails here, especially in the cold months, coming from the mouth of the Missouri, which is a little to the south of west of this place.
— from American Journal of Science, Vol. 1. by Various

They did this in terms not calculated certainly to smother the flames of religious and party hatred, even if it had been possible at that moment to suppress the fire.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Then his rigid grief gave way; he seized her hands, and pressed his eyes, in which the hot tears stood, against them.
— from Four Phases of Love by Paul Heyse

His father, James Becket, came to Canada with his family in 1841 and was connected with the customs department at Montreal, where Robert A. pursued his education in private schools.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

Katzenjammer patients are sternly and forcibly refused admission to any public hospitals, even if in extremis ; for mercy, charity, and the medical faculty have refused hitherto to recognize the fact that alcoholism is a disease.
— from The Flowing Bowl A Treatise on Drinks of All Kinds and of All Periods, Interspersed with Sundry Anecdotes and Reminiscences by Edward Spencer

“How do you account for her persistency in clinging to a place her employers invariably fled from?
— from The Mayor's Wife by Anna Katharine Green

He chose his matter as rich and full as possible; he extended its form according to its requirements, but no further: it will not be found, in any of his dramas, that the thought is exhausted before the end; that there is any superfluous extension of the form, or any needless abundance of the matter.
— from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson