The room was in a state of wild disorder, the furniture being all swept to one side, and one chair lying on its back in the centre.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Revenge and murderous wishes toward those standing closest to the dreamer are not unusual, toward those best beloved in daily life, toward parents, brothers and sisters, toward one's spouse and one's own children.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Jurgis was willing, and so was Duane, and so they went to one of the high-class poolrooms where brokers and merchants gambled (with society women in a private room), and they put up ten dollars each upon a horse called “Black Beldame,” a six to one shot, and won.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

I took two or three long drives about the latter, drawn by a spirited team over smooth roads.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

I should have left Barcelona the same day, but a slight tinge of superstition made me desire to leave on the last day of the unhappy year I had spent in Spain.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

kuntratista n one who buys and sells things or services on a professional basis, contracting for the things bought or services rendered.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

All who were present then cried out that there had been a sufficient trial of skill in this kind of exercise.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

[319] included in the semen and in foaminess, and in the spirits the nature which is analogous to the element of the stars.[320] Wherefore fire generates no animal, nor does anything [animal] appear in process of formation in that, whether moist or dry, which is undergoing the action of fire; [321] whereas the heat of the sun and that of animals—not only that [which acts] through the semen, [322] but also, should there occur some excretion of a different nature
— from Harvey's Views on the Use of the Circulation of the Blood by John Green Curtis

I glanced back, and saw that one section of the big bookcase had moved forward slightly.
— from The Red Symbol by John Ironside

John and me could go in together, and paint panoramas of Bull Run and other battles and sell them or send out a half a dozen.
— from Watch Yourself Go By by Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) Field

All the records of this period seem to have perished, for we hear nothing of the settlement during the Danish invasions; but a Saxon town of some kind was evidently in existence at the time of the Conquest, though in 1073 three monks from the south who came to York, and, obtaining a guide to "Muneche-cester," sought for some religious house in that settlement, could find none, and were prevailed upon by the first Norman Bishop of Durham, Walcher, to stay at Jarrow.
— from Northumberland Yesterday and To-day by Jean F. (Jean Finlay) Terry

In addition to these duties, the butler, where only one footman is kept, will be required to perform some of the duties of the valet, to pay bills, and superintend the other servants.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Fluttering far down the gulf; ” and the round world, a caught fly, wrapped in a web of clouds, hung by a slender thread of some huge spider’s spinning.
— from Olive in Italy by Moray Dalton

"My dam became disquieted; but she did not take my part, and merely drew a long, long breath, and stepped to one side.
— from The Invaders, and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He felt it by a subtle telepathy of sympathetic thought.
— from The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden—1865-1900 by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

On October let the governments at Pretoria and Bloemfontein called up their burghers, and since then our streets have been filled with men, all on their way to the front, armed and supplied with ammunition, and trusting to an iniquitous system of commandeering to obtain other necessaries.
— from With Rifle and Bayonet: A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton