We are always appearing, and disappearing, and swearing, and interrogating, and filing, and cross-filing, and arguing, and sealing, and motioning, and referring, and reporting, and revolving about the Lord Chancellor and all his satellites, and equitably waltzing ourselves off to dusty death, about costs.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The fully developed gang appears to possess a restricted membership, a natural leader, a name—usually that of a leader or a locality—a body of tradition, custom and a ritual, a rendezvous, a territorial area which it holds as a sort of possession and defends against invasion by other groups.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

But his good fortune brought about a third event, so that he did not reap the fruit of his rash choice; because, having his auxiliaries routed at Ravenna, and the Switzers having risen and driven out the conquerors (against all expectation, both his and others), it so came to pass that he did not become prisoner to his enemies, they having fled, nor to his auxiliaries, he having conquered by other arms than theirs.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

But Australasia is strictly democratic, and reserves and restraints are things that are bred by differences of rank.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

This inner contradiction is rather frequent, and the inattention with which the protocols, as a rule, are read, and the scanty degree in which the testimony is tested logically and psychologically, are shown clear
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

For this obligation , said to be so unconditioned , nevertheless postulates; more than one condition in the background; it assumes a rewarder, a reward, and the immortality of the person to be rewarded.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

To Scrooge’s horror, looking back, he saw the last of the land, a frightful range of rocks, behind them; and his ears were deafened by the thundering of water, as it rolled and roared, and raged among the dreadful caverns it had worn, and fiercely tried to undermine the earth.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

A woman, flying and maddened, with dishevelled hair and her arms raised aloft, ran along the Rue Poissonnière, crying, "They kill!
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

For riseth up against realm and rod, A thing forgotten, a thing downtrod, The last lost giant, even God, Is risen against the world.
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

And at last we came out dripping and rejoicing and raced among the rocks.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

[Suspicions as to his Dervish Character] I had hardly taken possession of my new abode when the room filled with visitors, who squatted down in a row all round against the walls, first staring at me with their eyes wide open, then communicating to each other the results of their observations, and then uttering aloud their judgment upon the object of my travelling.
— from Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand by Ármin Vámbéry

They will not always remain as rugged as they are now.
— from American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Grünhagen takes it and reads and reads, and the more he reads the more eagerly and attentively he devours what he finds there.
— from Pine Needles by Susan Warner

He said he had never eaten any raccoons before, and did not know that they were eatable; but now he could eat them as readily as rabbit, as they were quite as good.
— from Hand-Book of Practical Cookery, for Ladies and Professional Cooks Containing the Whole Science and Art of Preparing Human Food by Pierre Blot

His thoughts had been otherwise occupied, but the moment his eyes fell on the shepherd's-plaid shawl wrapping the bundle at his feet, he knew what it was, and recognised a renewed attempt to coerce him into doing what he had vowed he would not.
— from Zoe by Evelyn Whitaker

Both truth and falsehood, separately and combined, have been alternately received and rejected; and this is that progress which is made in a circle, and not in lines direct.
— from The American Reformed Cattle Doctor Containing the necessary information for preserving the health and curing the diseases of oxen, cows, sheep, and swine, with a great variety of original recipes, and valuable information in reference to farm and dairy management by George H. Dadd

A ripping and rending, and then the buckling of the broken pieces of timber followed.
— from Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

[144] ‘Had a good deal of conversation with a Rajpoot about religion, and told him of the Gospel.’
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith