Tellson's Bank had a run upon it in the mail.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The area we have presumed is comprised within the Arabian Sea W., the Persian Gulf E., the Indian Ocean S., and an irregular line skirting the desert, and running up in a narrow point to Idumæa N. See Smith, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geography, art.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Then he awoke, and rose up in perfect health, and returning thanks to the Lord for his recovery, told the brothers what had been done for him; and to the joy of them all, returned the more zealously, as if chastened by the trial of his affliction, to the service which he was wont before to perform with care.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

remained awake reading until I heard my door open, and my young friend entered with only his nightshirt on.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

The dramas also show that whoever did not speak Sanskrit at any rate understood it, for Sanskrit is there employed in conversation with speakers of Prākrit.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

However small may be the area or the degree to which a man’s natural gifts reach, yet it indicates a man of enlarged thought if he disregards the subjective private conditions of his own judgement, by which so many others are confined, and reflects upon it from a universal standpoint (which he can only determine by placing himself at the standpoint of others).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

About two or three days before I was set at liberty, as I was entertaining the court with feats of this kind, there arrived an express to inform his majesty that some of his subjects riding near the place where I was first taken up, had seen a great black substance lying on the ground, very oddly shaped, extending its edges round as wide as his majesty's bed-chamber, and rising up in the middle as high as a man; that it was no living creature, as they had at first apprehended, for it lay on the grass without motion; and some of them had walked round it several times; that, by mounting upon each other's shoulders, they had got to the top, which was flat and even, and, stamping upon it, they found it was hollow within; that they humbly conceived it might be something belonging to the man-mountain; and if his majesty pleased, they would undertake to bring it with only five horses.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

On this side are the Gaetulian towns, a race unconquerable in war; the reinless Numidian riders and the grim Syrtis hem thee in; on this lies a thirsty tract of desert, swept by the raiders of Barca.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The world enjoys other pleasures, says he, as they do that of sleep, without tasting or feeling it as it slips and passes by.—We should study and ruminate upon it, in order to render proper thanks to him who grants it to us.—For this end
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

"You are right, Uncle," I remarked.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

A multitude of ornaments appears rather unnecessary in any building calculated for the purposes of war.
— from An Universal Dictionary of the Marine Or, a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship. Illustrated With Variety of Original Designs of Shipping, in Different Situations; Together With Separate Views of Their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the French Sea-terms and Phrases, Collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c. by William Falconer

The mother's kindly counsel is the best, I know, but you cannot always rely upon its being there.
— from In Times Like These by Nellie L. McClung

Save the money for the work, says I. What does she reply—she always has a reply: 'Uncle, I know the value of money better.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Complete by George Meredith

He's got the wrong sow by the yeer, though, fer ef he keeps me heer till Christmas I 'll never crack a rock, unless I do it by accidentally step-pin' on it.
— from Abner Daniel: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

We sat and looked up the lane which wound on to the big Sheraton house, and up the red road which led from their farm over toward our lands, the John Cowles farm, which had been three generations in our family as against four on the part of the Sheratons' holdings; a fact which I think always ranked us in the Sheraton soul a trifle lower than themselves.
— from The Way of a Man by Emerson Hough

Baste thickly with the butter, sprinkle with flour lightly, and roll up in close folds.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

SAVVA All right, uncle, I understand.
— from Savva and the Life of Man: Two plays by Leonid Andreyev by Leonid Andreyev

The manual operations and remedies used in surgery.
— from Dr. Stearns's Tour from London to Paris by Samuel Stearns

Christian men individually, and the Church collectively, supply—may I call it the missing link?—between a redeeming Saviour and the world which He has redeemed in act, but which is not actually redeemed, until it has received the message of the great Redemption that is wrought.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

The man-servant wanted to give me one; but I was impatient, thanked him hurriedly and ran upstairs in the dark.
— from The Choice of Life by Georgette Leblanc