They were all crying; the children hung about Agnes to the last; and we left poor Mrs. Micawber in a very distressed condition, sobbing and weeping by a dim candle, that must have made the room look, from the river, like a miserable light-house.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Granting that the world disposed of a quantum of force, it is obvious that any transposition of force to any place would affect the whole system—thus, besides the causality of sequence, there would also be a dependence, contiguity, and coincidence.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The structures placed at the middle line, B M F, Fig. 2, Plate 52, and those in connexion with the left perinaeal boundary, D G L, require (in order to insure the safety of these parts) that the line of incision necessary to gain access to the neck of the bladder in lithotomy should be made through the left side of the perinaeum from a point midway between M, the bulb, and D, crus penis above, to a point, K, midway between the anus, F, and tuber ischii, G, below.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

In the bulky and dropsical canon of Buddhism there is a whole library of despondency and despair.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

And when Caesar had further bestowed upon him another additional country, he built there also a temple of white marble, hard by the fountains of Jordan: the place is called Panium, where is a top of a mountain that is raised to an immense height, and at its side, beneath, or at its bottom, a dark cave opens itself; within which there is a horrible precipice, that descends abruptly to a vast depth; it contains a mighty quantity of water, which is immovable; and when any body lets down any thing to measure the depth of the earth beneath the water, no length of cord is sufficient to reach it.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

His cheeks, his beard, his hair, his neck and his clothes seemed to have been soaked, to have been dipped in a red tub; and that blood stuck to him, and had become a dull color which was horrible to look at.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

105 O Soule, O circle, why so quickly bee Thy ends, thy birth and death, clos'd up in thee?
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Rye is more digesting than wheat; the bread and the leaven thereof ripens and breaks imposthumes, boils, and other swellings: The meal of Rye put between a double cloth, and moistened with a little vinegar, and heated in a pewter dish, set over a chafing dish of coals, and bound fast to the head while it is hot, doth much ease the continual pains of the head.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The fire proved to be at a brewery, and did considerable damage before it was got under.
— from The Call of the Town: A Tale of Literary Life by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

" He further states—"I knew General Warren well by sight, and recollected him perfectly when Colonel Prescott offered him the command, and was 42 sorry to see him so dangerously situated, as I knew him to be a distinguished character, and thought he ought not to have risked his life without command on that occasion."
— from The Command in the Battle of Bunker Hill With a Reply to "Remarks on Frothingham's History of the Battle, by S. Swett" by Richard Frothingham

g in the same way,—that is, all tending to show that Jupiter is a planet glowing with intense heat, surrounded by a deep cloud-laden atmosphere, intensely hot in its lower portions, but not necessarily so in the parts we see, and undergoing changes (consequences of heat) of a stupendous nature, such as the small heat of the remote sun, which shines on Jupiter with less than the 27th part of the heat we receive, could not by any possibility produce.
— from Flowers of the Sky by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

Jean Valjean rose smartly, but there was no longer any one on the slope; he looked round him, and perceived a person, taller than a child and shorter than a man, dressed in a gray blouse and dust-colored cotton-velvet trousers, bestriding the parapet, and slipping down into the moat of the Champ de Mars.
— from Les Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic by Victor Hugo

The Baron Giordano charged himself with these details, and I sought MM. de Boissy and de Chateaugrand, to request their silence respecting the unhappy affair, and to induce Chateau Renaud to leave Paris for a time, without mentioning my reason for this last suggestion.
— from The Corsican Brothers by Alexandre Dumas

The Cathedral, a fine edifice, enclosed by a dilapidated colonnade (originally the Mausoleum of Diocletian) is now dedicated to the Virgin and St. Diomo.
— from Through Bosnia and Herzegovina with a Paint Brush by Whitwell, Edward Robson, Mrs.

Patty flew across the room and greeted her stepmother with an affectionate squeeze, and then flew back and dropped comfortably on the couch, tucking one foot under her, and thereby dropping off a little blue silk boudoir slipper as she did so.
— from Patty's Social Season by Carolyn Wells

"Mr. Quisanté has had certain—er—difficulties to overcome," she murmured rather vaguely, and was not reassured by a dry chuckle and the heartfelt exclamation, "I should think so!"
— from Quisanté by Anthony Hope