The Nautilus then rolled and pitched like a ship left to the fury of the elements.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Edward desires his love to you, to grandpapa, to Anna, to little Edward, to Aunt James and Uncle James, and he hopes all your turkeys and ducks and chicken and guinea fowls are very well; and he wishes you very much to send him a printed letter, and so does Fanny—and they both rather think they shall answer it....
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

The old bed of the river at Resaca had become filled at places, leaving a succession of little lakes.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The mouth of the pot is covered with a plantain leaf, and secured.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

” The baroness had watched Debray while he read this long and painful letter, and saw him, notwithstanding his self-control, change color once or twice.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

If we leave to tactics the actual delivery of the blow, the battle itself, and look upon Strategy as the art of using this means with skill, then besides the forces of the character, such as burning ambition which always presses like a spring, a strong will which hardly bends &c. &c., there seems no subjective quality so suited to guide and inspire strategic activity as stratagem.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

C H A P. LXVI A S Tom, an’ please your honour, had no business at that time with the Moorish girl, he passed on into the room beyond, to talk to the Jew ’s widow about love——and this pound of sausages; and being, as I have told your honour, an open cheary-hearted lad, with his character wrote in his looks and carriage, he took a chair, and without 193 much apology, but with great civility at the same time, placed it close to her at the table, and sat down.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Time shall rob me of the graces of maturity, shall take the fire from my eyes, and agility from my limbs, shall steal the better part of life, eager expectation and passionate love, and shower them in double portion on thy dear head.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Always present, like a soft weight upon her, bearing her down, was his body against her as they danced.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Within themselves its secret witness find, The soul's communion with the Eternal Mind, The Spirit's law, the Inward Rule and Guide, Scholar and peasant, lord and serf, allied, The polished Penn and Cromwell's Ironside.
— from Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

Every mountainside had a pretty little anarchical system of its own.
— from Jaffery by William John Locke

After the recovery of her health, which seemed miraculous, she studied more perfectly to die to her senses, and to advance in a penitential life and spirit, in which God had begun to conduct her, by practising the greatest austerities which were compatible with the obedience she had professed: she fasted two or three days a week on bread and water, and sometimes passed the whole day without taking any nourishment, and chastised her body with disciplines and a sharp iron chain which she wore next her skin.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

With this conviction, however, and the termination of his cigar came a distinctly soporific proclivity, so that, pleading fatigue and declining further refreshment, the new-comer was fain to betake himself to bed, in which blessed refuge from care and pain, labour and sorrow, he shortly ceased to revolve the very comprehensive subject of colonial experience.
— from The Crooked Stick; Or, Pollie's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood

The two anterior limbs are separated from the others, and are inserted nearly under the head; the posterior ones are particularly large and strong.
— from The Insect World Being a Popular Account of the Orders of Insects; Together with a Description of the Habits and Economy of Some of the Most Interesting Species by Louis Figuier

Some brought with them women who seemed respectable, and who often joined in the conversation, especially when it turned upon the law of marriage as a main obstacle to all personal liberty and social improvement.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

“At three o’clock.” “Are you going to see him on account... on account—” Paklin looked at Solomin who was smiling and at Markelov who sat enveloped in his gloom.
— from Virgin Soil by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

“To think that this time yesterday I was at Glion and in such a panic lest anything should prevent my getting away!
— from Wayfaring Men: A Novel by Edna Lyall