It is easy for us who travel into remote countries, which are seldom visited by Englishmen or other Europeans, to form descriptions of wonderful animals both at sea and land.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Well, it was touching to see the queen blush and smile, and look embarrassed and happy, and fling furtive glances at Sir Launcelot that would have got him shot in Arkansas, to a dead certainty.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

We struck on a shoal in going down the bay, and sprung a leak; we had a blustering time at sea, and were oblig'd to pump almost continually, at which I took my turn.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

He conferred on him the title of King; and Zizais proved that he was not unworthy to reign, by a sincere and lasting attachment to the interests of his benefactor, who, after this splendid success, received the name of Sarmaticus from the acclamations of his victorious army.
— 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

It was five o'clock when the post brought a second anonymous letter in the same hand as the first.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Even Rilla here, my 'lily of the field,' is running a Red Cross Society full blast and saving a little life for Canada.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Secondly, the motion of the eye contributes to its beauty, by continually shifting its direction; but a slow and languid motion is more beautiful than a brisk one; the latter is enlivening; the former lovely.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Both armies stood a long time at the margin of the river, keeping quiet from dread of the result; and profound silence was observed on both sides.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J. One day a wag—what would the wretch be at?— Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name!
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

This plain produces sesame plentifully, as also panic and millet and barley and wheat; and it is shut in on all sides by a steep and lofty wall of mountains from sea to sea.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

The days were lengthening visibly, and the sun, which only a month ago had appeared every morning like a red ball over the hill behind the Castle, now rose, bright and shining, a long way to eastward.
— from The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil

“Lucky for him, then, that he hasn't got you across the pigskin; you'd rope him, I believe, as soon as look at him, if it was made worth your while,” retorted Rake, in caustic wrath; his science of repartee chiefly lay in a successful “plant,” and he was here uncomfortably conscious that his opponent was in the right of the argument, as he started through the throng to put his master into the “shell” of the Shire-famous scarlet and white.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

She never touched roast pork, avoided it all the more when boiled, abhorred sausages, and looked the other way when anybody offered her bacon.
— from River Legends; Or, Father Thames and Father Rhine by Brabourne, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, Baron

It is both a sea and landscape drawing, M. Waagen declares it to be the most beautiful morceau of the kind he is acquainted with, and asserts that Lorrain has here attained perfection, vol.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

The greater portion of this great hill, and especially that part of it which lay nearest to the mountain, was covered by a sparse and low vegetation, such as the wild olive and the myrtle, which was all that the parched and sandy soil would yield.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

Smith Works by ALEXANDER SMITH:— A LIFE DRAMA, AND OTHER POEMS.
— from Macmillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869 by Macmillan & Co.

Her form became all suppleness and lightness; her powers of relaxation and abandonment of limb were prodigious.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

—With a quarter of a peck of fine flour mix the yolks of three and whites of two eggs, beaten and strained, a little salt, half a pint of good yeast that is not bitter, and as much milk, made a little warm, as will work into a thin light dough.
— from Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

He looked on her and knit his brows, and said at last: "Well it is little to throw away the end of my life, and there may be some tidings or tracks of tidings to be found.
— from The Sundering Flood by William Morris