'Assist us to escape,' said her mistress.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Well, our three ages add up to exactly seventy years."
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

The secondary cases are used to express subordinate or supplementary relations.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Nor is it at all uncommon to encounter scurvy in an infant which has been fed with a very dilute milk mixture.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Then came before him the pale and trembling relatives who had told their tale upon the inquest—the shrieks of women—the silent dread of men—the consternation and disquiet—the victory achieved by that heap of clay, which, with one motion of its hand, had let out the life and made this stir among them— He spoke no more; but, after a pause, softly groped his way out of the room, and up the echoing stairs—up to the top—to the front garret—where he closed the door behind him, and remained.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The way to them is of equal length from the city of Heraion near Perinthos and from Apollonia upon the Euxine Sea, that is to say two days' journey by each road.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Art, which allows us to enter such strange worlds, makes them tasteful to us.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

She passed by many magnificent ones, but was so eager to get the largest and most perfect that she kept on without plucking any until the ears she passed were successively smaller and smaller and more stunted.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

It was to be considered as preliminary to any operation—that the fleet and army of France should continue their aid until the enterprise should succeed, or be abandoned by mutual consent.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

For does not David Strauss himself advise us to exercise such caution, in the following profound passage, the general tone of which leads us to think of the Founder of Christianity rather than of our particular author?
— from Thoughts out of Season, Part I David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer - Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

instead of finding that he could enjoy his riches, his mind was full of horror and dismay; his anguish became extreme; his face appeared not only deformed but hideous; the forehead wrinkled from the top to the bottom; the eyebrows bent down over the eyes, [Pg 169] and pressing one another on the sides of the nose; the eyes seemingly on fire, and full of blood; the eyeball disturbed, and under the eyebrows, sparkling and unfixed; the eyelid swelled and livid; the nostrils large, open, and lifted up; the end of the nose sunk down; the muscles, leaders, and veins, swelled and stretched; the upper part of the cheeks large, marked, and narrow towards the jaw; the mouth drawn backwards, more open at the sides than in the middle; the lower lip large and turned out, he gnashes his teeth, foams, bites his lips, which are pale, as is the rest of the face; the hair is strait, and stands an end; such was the picture of the wicked Baron, the picture of [Pg 170] DESPAIR.
— from The Juvenile Lavater; or, A Familiar Explanation of the Passions of Le Brun Calculated for the Instruction & Entertainment of Young Persons; Interspersed with Moral and Amusing Tales by George Brewer

By the end of February he was triumphantly encamped at the foot of the Guamuhaya {84} Mountains, between Santa Clara and Trinidad, and had the satisfaction of having wrought vast destruction upon the property of Cubans and upon the essential supplies of the Cuban army.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

A scattering fire was maintained until 9 o’clock, when the Indians made a savage assault upon the east side of Reno’s position.
— from Then and Now; or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies Personal Reminiscences of Some of the First Pioneers of the State of Montana by Robert Vaughn

The sea was like glass, so calm and unruffled that every star above could look down and see its unbroken reflection in the dark water below.
— from Joel: A Boy of Galilee by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

He had so thoroughly cultivated a philosophic contempt for the outside world and its business, the sayings and doings, the joys and the sorrows of the puny mortals who fume and strut and fret their lives away upon this earthly stage, that he lost the opportunity of hearing from the Apostle's lips of a grander philosophy, a deeper contentment, of a truer, more satisfying peace than was ever dreamt of in stoical speculation.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 by George Thomas Stokes

Dies the day, and from far away Under the evening star Dies the echo as dies the day, Droops with the dew in the new-mown hay, Sinks and sleeps in the scent of May, Dreamily, faint and far.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol. 7, No. 4, April 1900 by Various

It will be seen that fresh leach liquor and fresh material are used to each set except the suspenders, which must have some mellowness to ensure plumping and smooth grain.
— from Animal Proteins by Hugh Garner Bennett