She did not answer at once, but after looking down ruminatingly she said, with some earnestness, "Mr. Casaubon must have overcome his dislike of you so far as his actions were concerned: and that is admirable.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

de Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre, he was challenged by her husband and was wounded in the neck by a bullet, which wound brought on him a kind of chronic twist of the neck.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

In 1821, at the Opera, young Rastignac made fun for the occupants of two boxes over the provincialisms of Madame de Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre, "young Chardon."
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

[The Unconscious Humorists.] SCHINNER (Madame), wife of Hippolyte Schinner, born Adelaide Leseigneur de Rouville, daughter of the Baron and Baronne de Rouville, her father being a naval officer; lived during the Restoration in Paris with her mother, boarding at a house situated on the rue de Surene and belonging to Molineux.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Here was early death, by bronchitis and lung diseases, reduced to a certainty.
— from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

At the execution Campion was interrupted by a long dialogue respecting his alleged treason, and subjected to a great deal of questioning.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

whereinto another water falleth (called Becquithes brooke) a mile beneath Harneham bridge, whose head is fiue miles from Sarum, and thrée miles aboue Becquithes bridge, as Leland doth remember, who noteth the Chalkeburne.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

Take the boys out into the woods where they can squat under a big tree, or if the day is warm seek the cool shelter of the tent and while the boys are lying down read a short story or several chapters of a story like "Dr. Grenfell's Parish," by Norman Duncan, "Just Boys," by Mary Buell Wood, "Some Boys I Know," "Chapel Talks," or "The Story of Good Will Farm," by George W. Hinckley.
— from Camping For Boys by H. W. (Henry William) Gibson

It was the opprobrium of the Republican party in the Presidential campaign of 1860, that the Southern States were not, in any but a limited degree, represented in its ranks; and so it was called a sectional party.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

"His life, for the last two months, has been a living death," replied the physician, kindly.
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

Limping slightly, he made the remaining distance by a less direct route and at last stood at the moat before the palace.
— from The Image and the Likeness by John Scott Campbell

The street rose steeply before, and was outlined by a long, double row of gas-lamps, stretching away to a point.
— from The Drunkard by Guy Thorne

There, straight ahead and barely a league distant, raced the Revenge and her pirate crew.
— from The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader

He pulled the lid off his dark iron casket; and immediately there wriggled out two great black ugly snakes, which grew bigger and longer, dancing round him; nor could he escape from their meshes.
— from Household stories from the Land of Hofer; or, Popular Myths of Tirol by Rachel Harriette Busk