It seemed as if the spot was unoccupied by a living soul.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Hans, who was a man who never forgot even the minutest precautions, had added to our baggage a large skin full of water, as an addition to our gourds.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

When about ten years old he was studying Isaiah, and was struck by the 53rd chapter; that which hitherto had been a lurking suspicion became an absolute certainty, and the more so as he saw how the principal Jewish commentators laboured in vain to prove that this prophecy could not apply to Jesus of Nazareth.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

There was a horrible fascination in it—human bodies and lives subjected in slavery to that symmetric monster of the colliery.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

It would be awful enough if some day circumstances forced her to say, "I have no nest-egg," but at least she would be supported in such a case by the knowledge that the egg had been her own.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

" Robert Audley breathed a long sigh of relief as he folded this letter.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Even from this elevation I could not see anything clearly, but I gathered enough to satisfy myself that after an hour of heavy firing the advance artillery of the Prussian troops had retired, and had at last been completely silenced, their withdrawal being signalled by a loud shout of jubilation from the populace.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

I joined the boat this morng at 8 oClock (I will only remark that dureing the time I lay on the band waiting for the boat, a large Snake Swam to the bank imediately under the Deer which was hanging over the water, and no great distance from it, I threw chunks and drove this Snake off Several times.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

When she first saw me, might she not be a little shocked and disappointed?
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

It seemed to be almost like sacrilege to associate such a gross idea with the etherial being that floated before her in all the majestic beauty of a fairy queen.
— from Helen Ford by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Bright rusty red; white below, much streaked; long bill and long, sweeping tail ; song, loud, bold and varied; about bushes.
— from Wild Birds in City Parks Being hints on identifying 145 birds, prepared primarily for the spring migration in Lincoln Park, Chicago by Alice Hall Walter

Fast by the margin of the lake, Conceal'd within a thorny brake, A linnet sate, whose careless lay Amus'd the solitary day.
— from The Poetical Works of James Beattie by James Beattie

The fact is, one may arrive at a system of metaphysics in two ways—incontinently, by a logical solecism and an exaggeration of some false premise ad infinitum , or by following the chain of known truth to the point at which it disappears in eternal night, and by endeavouring to peer into the darkness by the light of hypothesis: in the first case metaphysics is simply a logically developed mistake which gains in magnitude what it loses in reality, an illegitimate negation of science; in the second case it is a hypothetical extension of truth, in some sort a legitimate supplement to science.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

In other unions, such as the Iron Molders and the Pattern Makers, the regular benefit remains as originally established, but a larger sum is paid to older members.
— from Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions by James Boyd Kennedy

But at last she recognized that noble face that—much though she'd hated him at first—had always reminded her of the engravings she'd seen of Roman statues.
— from Shaman by Robert Shea

These screw-wheels float upon the surface parallel to the shore, rising or falling with the water, and are connected with the gearing in the millhouse upon the bank by a long shaft.
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1 by Edmund Flagg

Austin bent and looked sharply into the full hands.
— from The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins