It is enough that he presents a picture of the pretended demoniac, that he [lxiv] makes it as sordid and hateful as possible, that he draws for us in the person of Justice Eitherside the portrait of the bigoted, unreasonable, and unjust judge, and that he openly ridicules the series of cases which he used as the source of his witch scenes (cf.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

At his advice, on the afternoon of the 4th we set off together, with the intention of crossing the hills and spending the night at the hamlet of Rosenlaui.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

She began to refuse the attentions of the servants, swept and tidied her own room, cleaned her own boots and brushed her own clothes.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

MADISON To the People of the State of New York: THE remaining charge against the House of Representatives, which I am to examine, is grounded on a supposition that the number of members will not be augmented from time to time, as the progress of population may demand.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

It was found to be just at that part of the cliff which was between the projection at the mouth of the Mercy and a perpendicular line traced above the heap of rocks which formed the Chimneys.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

'Tis the place, and all around it, 1 as of old, the curlews call, Dreary gleams 2 about the moorland flying over Locksley Hall; Locksley Hall, that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

A Further Difference Between The Senate And The House Of Representatives The Senate named by the provincial legislators, the Representatives by the people—Double election of the former; single election of the latter—Term of the different offices—Peculiar functions of each House.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

he had a younger brother, a child of seven years old, who was the legitimate son of Perdiccas, and to him of right the kingdom belonged; Archelaus, however, had no mind to bring him up as he ought and restore the kingdom to him; that was not his notion of happiness; but not long afterwards he threw him into a well and drowned him, and declared to his mother Cleopatra that he had fallen in while running after a goose, and had been killed.
— from Gorgias by Plato

Seeing in this arrangement the hope of rendering real service in that pressing emergency, Miss Pross hailed it with joy.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Slade was frequently arrested by order of the court whose organization we have described, and had treated it with respect by paying one or two fines and promising to pay the rest when he had money; but in the transaction that occurred at this crisis, he forgot even this caution, and goaded by passion and the hatred of restraint, he sprang into the embrace of death.
— from Roughing It, Part 2. by Mark Twain

Grover kept the Second division with Birge, Molineux, and Sharpe as brigade commanders, and afterward a fourth brigade was added, made up of four regiments from the disbanded Thirteenth Corps, under Colonel David Shunk of the 8th Indiana, and comprising, in addition to his own regiment, the 24th and 28th Iowa, and the 18th Indiana.
— from History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard B. (Richard Biddle) Irwin

" George felt all the horrors of remorse, and was much too generous to conceal his error any longer; he wrote a circumstantial account of the whole transaction to Lady Margaret.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

Their vengeance demands a victim, and three have offered ready to hand.
— from The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid

When Gwynne arrived at the house on Russian Hill late in the evening it occurred to him to tap on Isabel's door and tell her that he had obeyed her orders, recalled all the traditions down in their common ancestor's old domain, and "got the feel" of the place.
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

It bore, “Miss Gray, Mrs. Montreville's, at the house of Ram Sing Cottah, in the Black Town.”
— from The Surgeon's Daughter by Walter Scott

I believe that within the limitation of sound banking principles Congress should now and for the future place the national banks upon a fair equality with their competitors, the State banks, and I trust that means may be found so that the differences on branch-banking legislation between the Senate and the House of Representatives may be settled along sound lines and the legislation promptly enacted.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Calvin Coolidge

And we're goin' to get into a waggin that Pete hez bespoke for us at the head of Reservoir Gulch to-morrow mornin' at sun-up!
— from Gabriel Conroy by Bret Harte

Although the head of Ruth had been painted out, the picture seemed to throb with life.
— from Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton