It was a long, difficult business, for the coins were of all countries and sizes—doubloons, and louis d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight, and I know not what besides, all shaken together at random.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Then he bowed a second time and retired.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

There is one end, however, which may be assumed to be actually such to all rational beings (so far as imperatives apply to them, viz., as dependent beings), and, therefore, one purpose which they not merely may have, but which we may with certainty assume that they all actually have by a natural necessity, and this is happiness.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

Every eye was fixed upon the boat as she turned and rowed along within fifty yards of the foot of the rocks.
— from A Roving Commission; Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

"But that might be a signal to anyone rather than to us."
— from Air Men o' War by Boyd Cable

I—I'd like to be accommodatin', 'specially to a relation.
— from Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Necklaces and bracelets of glass beads or small shells form the ornaments of the females, while in some tribes the men twine round their bodies long white rows of beads, composed of little fragments of shells rounded like buttons, and strung together at regular intervals.”
— from The Human Race by Louis Figuier

I suppose I must bear with this ill-tempered old gentleman's behaviour as best I may for eight and forty hours, though I am afraid it will be a struggle to avoid retorting a little of his bitterness upon himself."
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

She asked Lucile and Mart about it, when the brother and sister took a rest from the song which Lucile was to sing, though her brother had a part in it.
— from Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Giving a Show by Laura Lee Hope

Their families need the necessaries of life, as both a scanty table and rent apparel bear witness, and they cast the blame upon "ill luck," "misfortune," "unavoidable circumstances," or something of the kind.
— from The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. by William Makepeace Thayer

Sometimes the burrows are hidden under bushes, and sometimes they are right out in the open.
— from The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

The untranslateable terms alone, incomprehensible unless their meanings are explained, are left, but all such terms are rendered in their Sanskrit form.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky