In a few minutes were joined by all the family, except Mr. Smith, who fortunately was engaged.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

“You won’t be able to find either your baggage or anything else now, Prince.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There was a bower at the farther end, with honeysuckle, jessamine, and creeping plants—one of those sweet retreats which humane men erect for the accommodation of spiders.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Rauwolf [27] (d. 1596), German physician and botanist, and the first European to mention coffee, who became acquainted with the beverage in Aleppo in 1573, telling how the drink was prepared by the Turks, says:
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Food, and any articles of consumption, and military munitions, were exempted from taxation; and the revenues derived from tolls on road gates, on bridges, and on city gates, &c., were applied to the purposes for which they were imposed, namely, to the repair of the roads, the bridges, and the fortified enclosures.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

And they don't bother about the future, either—the future when perhaps the people will move in again—for a time—as may very well be.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Every ancient system of religion had its prophets and seers, who professed to be able to foresee events of the future.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Green Gables was built at the furthest edge of his cleared land and there it was to this day, barely visible from the main road along which all the other Avonlea houses were so sociably situated.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Razumihin chose a town on the railway not far from Petersburg, so as to be able to follow every step of the trial and at the same time to see Avdotya Romanovna as often as possible.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

-an(→) n the beam at the far end of the loom around which the warp threads are wound.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Fortunately, however, for the homesick visitors, the Khan's granddaughter was to marry the King of Persia, and started on her journey to that country; but after travelling for eight months, the Princess and her attendants found that many of the provinces through which they had to pass were at war, and they turned back to Cambalu.
— from Harper's Young People, August 30, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

“But a time for every thing; I was hot once: both answers good for their ages.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Maria Edgeworth

No snow had fallen but a thick frost encrusted the ground.
— from Tales of lonely trails by Zane Grey

If the end leaves are to be of silk, an allowance of 1 ⁄ 4 of an inch must be left for turning in at the top, the bottom and the fore edge.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration by Charles Franklin Warner

For the same light, a dim, smoky lamp burning at the far end of the place, which revealed its general aspect, disclosed a bundle of straw and a forlorn little form.
— from Starvecrow Farm by Stanley John Weyman

This is considered a fine copy, and would be a fine picture if one had never seen the original; but all the finest effects are gone in the copy.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 (of 3) by George Eliot

The gendarmes passed by, but, as they followed each other at a considerable distance, they were several minutes in doing so.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

“I have been afraid that father exaggerated its value and that it might have defects which would prevent its being adopted anywhere.”
— from Herbert Carter's Legacy; Or, the Inventor's Son by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Brass Bowels' agent tried for 'em, but they'd lumbered with me in British Columbia.
— from The Settler by Herman Whitaker

But to do so would have been only to repeat, by anticipation, the fatal error of that great monarch, which forever forfeited for France the control of the seas, in which the surest prosperity of nations is to be found; a mistake, also, far more ruinous to the island kingdom than it was to her continental rival, bitter though the fruits thereof have been to the latter.
— from The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan