Seeing these movements, the Chinese all adopted their own peculiar attitude, that of sitting as they do in their shops, with one leg drawn back and upward, the other swinging loose.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

You will cross the courtyard and wait for me in the avenue upon the other side of the archway.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

We went, as usual, to our several fields of labor, but with bosoms highly agitated with thoughts of our truly hazardous undertaking.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

1802 The people of Carsulæ, an Umbrian town of some importance.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Upon it are Epirus, Acarnania, Ætolia, Phocis, Locris, Achaia, Messenia, Laconia, Argolis, Megaris, Attica, Bœotia; and again, upon the other sea 2084 , the same Phocis and Locris, Doris, Phthiotis, Thessalia, Magnesia, Macedonia and Thracia.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

s of luxury were applied to those of ambition, and a useless train of seven thousand falconers was either dismissed from his service, or enlisted in his troops.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

We shall find, if I am not mistaken, that there are no facts which refute the hypothesis of mental continuity, and that, on the other hand, this hypothesis affords a useful test of suggested theories as to the nature of mind.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

But these higher and more fortunate beings were considered to be also subject to the law of transmigration, and, unless they obtained saving knowledge, to be on a lower level than the man who had obtained such knowledge.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

'Then (Tripet) pass'd his right leg over his saddle, and placed himself en croup.—But, said he, 'twere better for me to get into the saddle; then putting the thumbs of both hands upon the crupper before him, and there-upon leaning himself, as upon the only supporters of his body, he incontinently turned heels over head in the air, and strait found himself betwixt the bow of the saddle in a tolerable seat; then springing into the air with a summerset, he turned him about like a wind-mill, and made above a hundred frisks, turns, and demi-pommadas.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The defendant "has published a paper, in which, concerning the King, concerning the House of Commons, and concerning the great officers of State, concerning the public affairs of the realm, there are uttered things of such tendency and application as ought to be punished."
— from The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

He attacks us through our soft places.
— from The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann

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— from The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 1, January, 1880 by Various

It required a rude handling of the reins and of the flat of my sword before I could cause my courser to desist from his infuriated assault upon the other stallion that he held under and kicked and bit unmercifully.
— from The Casque's Lark; or, Victoria, the Mother of the Camps by Eugène Sue

Towards the summits of the bigger mountains the trees become smaller and grow wider apart, and if you go up to one of these and look around you, you can see nothing but a sea of dark-green tree-tops, rolling down into the valley and up the opposite slopes on all sides of you, with here and there the peaks of the highest mountains standing against the sky
— from The Life Story of a Black Bear by Harry Perry Robinson

But suddenly Wylie's voice broke in with an unmistakable tone of superiority.
— from Foul Play by Dion Boucicault

He was very tall, with a skin clear and polished like bronze, and, unlike the ordinary savage, his breast was unmarked, and his hair unadorned.
— from Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan

It will apologize for failure in the abstract under tricks of speech, and cant about charity, but for individual failure it has no mercy.
— from Men in the Making by Ambrose Shepherd

He ran more than he walked; he climbed over the rocks; he galloped down the gullies and up the other side; he said not a word, but hurried, closely followed by Stephen, who was beginning to feel spent, until he reached the foot of a wall of rock, the highest ledge of Eagle Knob.
— from Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson