He has come here for rest and recreation, and, being an enthusiastic fisherman, he threatens to capture all the fish in our river.”
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

And they thrust him suddenly through a doorway into a room as black as pitch, save at the end there faintly glowed a fire.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In America, a ruffian, a brawler, a “rough.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Then he and the other prisoners were shortly after released, and banished, as appears from the following warrant: "You are required by these, presently to set at liberty William Robinson, Marmaduke Stevenson, Mary Dyar, and Nicholas Davis, who, by an order of the court and council, had been imprisoned, because it appeared by their own confession, words, and actions, that they are Quakers: wherefore, a sentence was pronounced against them, to depart this jurisdiction, on pain of death; and that they must answer it at their peril, if they, or any of them, after the 14th of this present month, September, are found within this jurisdiction, or any part thereof.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Though so young, and in a common rank, he had a spirit as resolute and brave as any hero in the books, ancient or modern—It was too great to say the words "I surrender"—and so he died.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

It was a wild and breaker-beaten coast, With cliffs above, and a broad sandy shore, Guarded by shoals and rocks as by an host, With here and there a creek, whose aspect wore
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

"Ah," said the woman, and sighed right heavily, and looked at the blood before her, and was most unhappy, "ah, if I had but a child as red as blood and as white as snow!"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

This Tungar is most suitable for a car owner, is satisfactory for charging a radio "A" battery, and a six volt starting and lighting battery at one time.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte

Things are rarely as bad as we anticipate, and, as it turned out, not only Miss Watson, but the rebellious Miss Teenie, looked back on that tea-party as one of the pleasantest they had ever taken part in, and only Heaven knows how many tea-parties the good ladies had attended in their day.
— from Penny Plain by O. Douglas

The 102 families performed funeral rites for their dead parents, visited Kāsi and Rāmēsvaram, and built a temple in honour of Vāsavāmbika at Penugonda, in which they placed an image in her name, and worshipped it ever afterwards.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

We could not afford to have it always night—and we must think that broad, gay morning light, when [234] meadow-lark and robin and bobolink are singing in chorus with a thousand insects and the waving of a thousand breezes, is on the whole the most in accordance with the average wants of those who have a material life to live and material work to do.
— from The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Knowledge, affection, religion, and beauty are not less constant influences in a man's life because his consciousness of them is intermittent.
— from The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

This refers undoubtedly to the spots in the moon; and so the Swedish peasantry explain these spots to this day, as representing a boy and a girl bearing a pail of water between them.
— from Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

He was no longer a reasoning animal, but a brute sunk to the level of those who held him captive.
— from Captured by Apes; or, How Philip Garland Became King of Apeland by Harry Prentice

The coastguards at Hallsands also saw lights, and fired off a rocket and burned a blue light to warn the ship of her danger, but the vessel's lights were only seen a few minutes before they disappeared.
— from The Blizzard in the West Being as Record and Story of the Disastrous Storm which Raged Throughout Devon and Cornwall, and West Somerset, On the Night of March 9th, 1891 by Unknown