He was careful to conceal his infidelities from her, and often succeeded in averting scenes and reproaches; or, if denial seemed impossible, he tried to palliate his fault and gain indulgence by addressing to her one of those poetical odes in which he excelled, and from which she derived such pride and joy.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

"Then, will you let it all run out in drink?" said Boyd.
— from The Woodman: A Romance of the Times of Richard III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The only thing open to a negro was a position as porter, or bootblack, or waiter in second-rate hotels and restaurants, or in domestic service as coachman, butler or footman.
— from The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865-1900 by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

One imagines that such a berg has come from a region of ice disturbance such as King Edward's Land.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott

I know'd he was goin' to do it, so I give an awful leap and sprung clear over his head and right out in de snow.
— from 'Our Guy' or, The elder brother by Boyd, E. E., Mrs.

The process described in this chapter is that of successive calamities that would weaken it and prepare it for its fall; then a rallying of its dying strength; and then some tremendous judgment that is compared with a storm of hail, accompanied with lightning, and thunder, and an earthquake, that would completely overthrow all that was connected with it.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

The organization of the People's Congress and the election as well as recall of its Delegates shall be determined by law.
— from The China of Chiang K'ai-Shek: A Political Study by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The poor black horse, however, instigated by no such thirst for vengeance, and desiring only the warmth and rest of its distant stable, was felt to be in a sorry plight so soon as it was burdened once more with the weight it had carried so gallantly through the day.
— from Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

Shortly thereafter he also rolled over in drunken sleep.
— from Over the Border: A Novel by Herman Whitaker

Instead of the corpse, we get the ghost; instead of the material underground world, we get the idealised and sublimated conception of a shadowy Hades, a world of shades, a realm of incorporeal, disembodied spirits.
— from Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen

Among the cremationists of the Bronze Age who imagined the existence of “a realm of incorporeal disembodied spirits,” the ghost was conceived to be immaterial, therefore the weapons were broken or charred with fire
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson