With sudden, wild abandon she stretched her arms toward it appealing, beseeching, entreating, and lo!
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Like the Spartan mother of old, she commanded him to put on the ‘saffron robe,’ and to die for Chitor: but surpassing the Grecian dame, she illustrated 381 her precept by example; and lest any soft ‘compunctious visitings’ for one dearer than herself might dim the lustre of Kelwa, she armed the young bride with a lance, with her descended the rock, and the defenders of Chitor saw her fall, fighting by the side of her Amazonian mother.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Besides these royal and beneficiary estates, a large proportion had been assigned, in the division of Gaul, of allodial and Salic lands: they were exempt from tribute, and the Salic lands were equally shared among the male descendants of the Franks.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But as to Fred Vincy, it is only fair he should be excused a little: old Featherstone's delusive behavior did help to spoil him.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

In the present times, the whole circulation of Scotland cannot be estimated at less than two millions, of which that part which consists in gold and silver, most probably, does not amount to half a million.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

That comes of having big blue eyes and loving music," said Jo, trying to soothe Beth, who trembled and looked more excited than she had ever been before.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The tender asparagus, the succulent celery, and the delicate cauliflower; egg plants, beets, lettuce, parsnips, peas, and French beans, early and late; radishes, cantelopes, melons of all kinds; the fruits and flowers of all climes and of all descriptions, from the hardy apple of the north, to the lemon and orange of the south, culminated at this point.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Evidently he enjoyed being elder, and liked the sense of authority, which he could only display by strictness.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The whole value of the gold and silver, therefore, which circulated in Scotland before the Union, cannot be estimated at less than a million sterling.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In one of the most distant countries of the West, Philip duke of Burgundy entertained, at Lisle in Flanders, an assembly of his nobles; and the pompous pageants of the feast were skilfully adapted to their fancy and feelings.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But leaving the weight of political cares To those, who are plac'd at the helm of affairs, To the humours of fortune in all things resign'd, I mean by my visit to put you in mind, That, as true as a clock, both early and late, With the news of the day I have knock'd at your gate, And gave you to know what the world was a doing, What Louis intended, or George was a brewing.
— from The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 2 (of 3) by Philip Morin Freneau

It was not so bad for a full-blooded Indian, but even a Lipan would do well to forget anything he had heard or seen that belonged to the bloody mysteries of the evil "manitous" of the old race.
— from The Lost Gold of the Montezumas: A Story of the Alamo by William O. Stoddard

If I wanted to do any work in that alley, I think I’d plan to arrive by eight and leave by ten, if it could be done.”
— from Peggy Finds the Theatre by Virginia Hughes

Ulodendrons, Sigillarias, &c., &c. Benthall Edge and Lincoln Hill yield characteristic fossils of the Wenlock limestone and Wenlock shales in great numbers and variety, corals being most abundant.
— from Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway Illustrative and Descriptive of Places along the Line from Worcester to Shrewsbury by John Randall

A rich color mantled in her cheeks, but eyes and lips were grave.
— from Clever Betsy: A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham

"They could hardly stay abroad together; their relationship, of course, will always remain a secret——" The office boy entered and laid a little envelope at his elbow.
— from That Affair at Elizabeth by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Mr. Galton adds that such animals are rare and valuable; and if many were born they would soon be eliminated, as lions are always on the look-out for the individuals which wander from the herd.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

The wisdom and justice of the English laws are, by Englishmen at least, loudly celebrated: but scarcely the most zealous admirers of our institutions can think that law wise, which, when men are capable of work, obliges them to beg; or just, which exposes the liberty of one to the passions of another.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson