It was so long since Emma had been at the Abbey, that as soon as she was satisfied of her father's comfort, she was glad to leave him, and look around her; eager to refresh and correct her memory with more particular observation, more exact understanding of a house and grounds which must ever be so interesting to her and all her family.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

The alchymists asserted that heaven itself conspired to bring to light these extraordinary works; and that the pillar in which they were enclosed was miraculously shattered by a thunderbolt; and that as soon as the manuscripts were liberated, the pillar closed up again of its own accord!
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Fanny was carried on board at the appointed time, and stowed away in a very small cabin.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

A policeman walked by and turned away to avoid seeing the boy.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears thus strong, Made senseless things begin to do them wrong, For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch; Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all things catch.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But as the aire takes all sunbeams equall bright P 120 the first Rayes, 1635-54 : the Raies first, 1669 , TCD : the rise first P 121 able men P : able man, 1635-54 : happy man, 1669 : happy
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears, thus strong, Made senseless things begin to do them wrong; For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch; Some sleeves, some hats: from yielders all things catch.
— from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

But this ideal heavenly sphere, with the earth in [Pg 32] the center of all the revolutions of the other bodies, and remaining quiescent—a theory which was common to all the ancient astronomers—was the result of observing the motions of the heavenly bodies as they appear to a spectator on the earth.
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

He knew afterwards, though not then, that it was the “dreary waste” of past dreams—a wide spreading welter of flat ground, broken and tumbled and torn and shiny wet, seen dimly through a misty haze, with nothing in sight but a few splintered bare poles of trees.
— from Front Lines by Boyd Cable

The entrance to the churchyard is by a triumphal arcade, the arches separated and sustained by Corinthian pillars.
— from Brittany by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Guido, in pursuit, Coming up with the fugitives at the inn, Caused both to be arrested then and there And sent to Rome for judgment on the case— Thither, with all his armory of proofs, Betook himself: 't is there we 'll meet him now, Waiting the further issue.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Mountains, rocks, trees, roads, rivers, lakes, were regularly portrayed, an attempt being made to represent the locality, whatever it might be, as truthfully as the artist’s skill and the character of his material rendered possible.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson