As a sort of objective commentary on Jude's remarks there drove up at this moment with a belated Doctor, robed and panting, a cab whose horse failed to stop at the exact point required for setting down the hirer, who jumped out and entered the door.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

In whose body Dr. Reason dwells not, dwells Dr. Madness, and he brings in his brethren, Dr. Ignorance, Dr. Folly, and Dr. Sickness, and these together make way for Death, and the latter end of that man is worse than the beginning.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

But whether or not because Casterbridge was difficult to excite by dramatic returns and disappearances through having been for centuries an assize town, in which sensational exits from the world, antipodean absences, and such like, were half-yearly occurrences, the inhabitants did not altogether lose their equanimity on his account.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Dora submitted calmly to be kissed, but Davy responded to Anne’s welcome with one of his hearty hugs and the cheerful announcement, “I’m Mr. Davy Keith.”
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Beaver Dam R this river is intirely Chocked up with mud, with a Streem of 1 Inch Diamiter passing through, discharging no Sand, at 1 (5) mile passed the lower pint of an Island close on the L. S. 2 of our men discovered the reckerrei village, about the Center of the Island on the L. Side on the main Shore.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

and so I have got both degrees ready....
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

[ Contents ] A sketch map, by Dr. Rizal, of spheres of influence in the Pacific at the time of writing “The Philippines A Century Hence,” as they appeared to him.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

So exceeding great was her beauty that Nathos did not think of her as Darthool or as any mortal woman, but rather as a daughter of the elder gods, or of that bright divine race of the Tuatha-De-Danann, whose beauty surpassed that of human beings as the beauty of the primrose bank that of the brown sod.
— from The Laughter of Peterkin: A retelling of old tales of the Celtic Wonderworld by William Sharp

“I’ll be down right away.
— from The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

It was on the bank of the small stream, and was not only deeply wooded, but abounded with rocks, bowlders, depressions, ravines, and wild, dangerous places, where it was certain death for a person to try to make his way in the darkness, unless he knew every foot of the locality.
— from The Young Ranchers; Or, Fighting the Sioux by Edward Sylvester Ellis

His face was pale, clammy, yet heated, especially round the swollen bruises; his eyes stood out, bold, dark, rolling and glaring, full of sullen fire.
— from The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey

In the course of a journey through Virginia, from the city of Washington towards James' river, of about 150 miles, going and returning by different routes, I had frequent opportunities of conversing with the possessors and overseers of slaves, and others, and of observing the general effects of the present system of slavery, upon the morals and prospects of the white population.
— from American Slave Trade Or, An Account of the Manner in which the Slave Dealers take Free People from some of the United States of America, and carry them away, and sell them as Slaves in other of the States; and of the horrible Cruelties practised in the carrying on of this most infamous Traffic by Torrey, Jesse, active 1787-1834

To the ideal commander of to-day, watching the fight at a distance, calmly weighing its course, undisturbed except by distant random shots, it is strange to compare Ney staggering through the gate of Konigsberg all covered with blood; smoke and snow, musket in hand, announcing himself as the rear-guard of France, or appearing, a second Achilles, on the ramparts of Smolensko to encourage the yielding troops on the glacis, or amidst the flying troops at Waterloo, with uncovered head and broken sword, black with powder, on foot, his fifth horse killed under him, knowing that life, honour, and country were lost, still hoping against hope and attempting one more last desperate rally.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 15 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

Its banks, bankers and bankrupts have brought down ruin on many an honest man 40 and covered themselves, the authors of the ruin, with shame and disgrace.
— from Mysteries of Washington City, during Several Months of the Session of the 28th Congress by Caleb Atwater

BOLT, dislodge, rout out; sift (boulting-tub).
— from Every Man in His Humour by Ben Jonson

The system of George III had broken down, ruined by the weaknesses of the Tory Cabinet in administration, in war, and in diplomacy, the most disastrous Ministry in the history of England.
— from The Wars Between England and America by Theodore Clarke Smith

We go by different routes, but our objective point is the same.
— from Evening Round-Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by William Crosbie Hunter