Gilbert had called her “carrots” and had brought about her disgrace before the whole school.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Thus while they looked, a flourish proud, Where mingled trump and clarion loud, And fife and kettle-drum, And sackbut deep, and psaltery, And war-pipe with discordant cry, And cymbal clattering to the sky, Making wild music bold and high, Did up the mountain come; The whilst the bells, with distant chime, Merrily tolled the hour of prime,
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

During the nine years she had lived with Berry, in consequence of the position she was compelled to occupy, she and Emily had become the object of Mrs. Berry and her daughter's hatred and dislike.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Mr. M., too, was imagined by us, quite absurdly doubtless, to be an hereditary devotee of the Pretender, if not closely allied to him by blood.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

but again he denied it.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

so called in respect of the other precedent, are either congenitae, internae, innatae , as they term them, inward, innate, inbred; or else outward and adventitious, which happen to us after we are born: congenite or born with us, are either natural, as old age, or praeter naturam (as [1299] Fernelius calls it) that distemperature, which we have from our parent's seed, it being an hereditary disease.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

" In the present attempt to render into English this portion of the works of Clausewitz, the translator is sensible of many deficiencies, but he hopes at all events to succeed in making this celebrated treatise better known in England, believing, as he does, that so far as the work concerns the interests of this country, it has lost none of the importance it possessed at the time of its first publication.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

We, during three centuries, have extended them our hands, we have asked love of them, we have yearned to call them brothers, and how do they answer us?
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

To find the best form of government; to persuade others that it is the best; and, having done so, to stir them up to insist on having it, is the order of ideas in the minds of those who adopt this view of political philosophy.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

English gentlemen, who had come in the footsteps of Mr. Cumming to hunt in the country beyond, and had deposited large quantities of stores in the same keeping, and upward of eighty head of cattle as relays for the return journeys, were robbed of all, and, when they came back to Kolobeng, found the skeletons of the guardians strewed all over the place.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

[Footnote 10: "Man darf es sich also nicht befremden lassen, wenn ich mich unterstehe zu sagen, dass eher die Bildung aller Himmelskörper, die Ursache ihrer Bewegungen, kurz der Ursprung der gantzen gegenwärtigen Verfassung des Weltbaues werden können eingesehen werden, ehe die Erzeugung eines einzigen Krautes oder einer Raupe aus mechanischen Gründen, deutlich und vollständig kund werden wird.
— from Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

The tramp did not hesitate, but started to crawl over the oddly constructed bridge, and he did so as well as the guide had done.
— from A Desperate Chance; Or, The Wizard Tramp's Revelation, a Thrilling Narrative by Old Sleuth

The prominent fact, that Willy Hammond had been murdered by Green, whose real profession was known by many, and now declared to all, was on every tongue; but a hundred different and exaggerated stories as to the cause and the particulars of the event were in circulation.
— from Ten Nights in a Bar Room by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

And the Breitmanns are high Dutchmen, and here is honest Hans.
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes

There was Sowerberry’s the undertaker’s, just as it used to be, only smaller and less imposing in appearance than he remembered it—all the well-known shops and [266] houses, with almost every one of which he had some slight incident connected—Gamfield’s cart, the very cart he used to have, standing at the old public-house door—the workhouse, the dreary prison of his youthful days, with its dismal windows frowning on the street—the same lean porter standing at the gate, at sight of whom Oliver involuntarily shrunk back, and then laughed at himself for being so foolish, then cried, then laughed again—scores of faces at the doors and windows that he knew quite well—nearly everything as if he had left it but yesterday and all his recent life had been but a happy dream.
— from Oliver Twist, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Charles Dickens

In his young days Red Fox had been a brave and had done many good things, but he had been shot in the thigh, in battle, and his leg had never healed, so that he could not go to war.
— from When Buffalo Ran by George Bird Grinnell

Edith thought: then Maurice pulled one of her pigtails and she kicked him—and after that she was forgotten, for the grown people began to talk, and say it had been a hot day, and that the strawberries needed rain—but Eleanor hoped there wouldn't be a thunderstorm.
— from The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland