The chief lesson of the Restoration was this,--that it showed by awful contrast the necessity of truth and honesty, and of a strong government of free men, for which the Puritan had stood like a rock in every hour of his rugged history.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

He takes a rein in each hand; jerks and pulls at both; and dances on the splashboard with both feet (keeping his seat, of course) like the late lamented Ducrow on two of his fiery coursers.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Everything was in accordance with my state of feeling, and I experienced a glow of pleasure at finding that what of poetry and romance I ever had in me, had not been entirely deadened by the laborious and frittering life I had led.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Then, after again reading it, “Evelina,” he cried, “she charges me to receive thee;-wilt thou, in obedience to her will, own for thy father the destroyer of thy mother?” What a dreadful question!-I shuddered, but could not speak.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

After a great hunting-party, at which a most wonderful quantity of game was destroyed, he saw these Scottish savages devour a part of their venison raw, without any farther preparation than compressing it between two batons of wood, so as to force out the blood, and render it extremely hard.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Then, at last, our pockets bulging with cartridges and a rifle in each hand, we started off upon our mission of rescue.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot stand to give you a reason in every herb why it cures such diseases; but if you please to pursue my judgment in the herb Wormwood, you shall find them there, and it will be well worth your while to consider it in every herb, you shall find them true throughout the book.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Two more hooks, about a foot apart, might be used for two ropes, so that the more advanced pupils could climb to the top by means of grasping a rope in each hand, and without the assistance of the feet.
— from The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering by William Martin

As a result, more and more of the molecular mercuric chloride and hydrocyanic acid will be ionized; and since the other ions, the chloride and the hydrogen ions, form a readily ionizable electrolyte, hydrochloric acid, these ions (H + and Cl − ) will accumulate in the solution and we shall have sufficient ionized hydrochloric acid liberated to make the solution decidedly acid.
— from The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. With Special Consideration of the Application of the Laws of Equilibrium and of the Modern Theories of Solution. by Julius Stieglitz

The circumstance that in the representation of the edifice in the Bayeux tapestry there is no tower has been urged against this theory, although architectural realism in embroidery has never been very noticeable.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

An oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant, or even an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex, which makes father, brothers, husband, sons the oligarch over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household; which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects; carries dissension, discord and rebellion into every home of the nation."
— from Labor and Freedom: The Voice and Pen of Eugene V. Debs by Eugene V. (Eugene Victor) Debs

The peculiarities of Calvinism are rarely, if ever, heard from their pulpits.
— from The Church Index A Book of Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise: Part I. Kensington by William Pepperell

An old grizzled warrior at the stern, with a rudder in either hand, kept the boat’s head continually towards the monster, in spite of its sudden and frantic wheelings; and when it dashed madly across the stream, some twenty oars flashed through the water in pursuit.
— from Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley

ad retired, I entered his room at seven or eight o'clock in the morning; and I have already said that his first questions invariably were as to the hour and the kind of weather.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

He has been quiet lately, and perhaps he has given the job up; at any rate I expect he won't try to pile her up again—more likely a quiet turn below with a big auger.
— from The Hole in the Wall by Arthur Morrison