At noon to the ‘Change; where just before I come, the Swede that had told the King and the Duke so boldly this great lie of the Dutch flinging our men back to back into the sea at Guinny, so particularly, and readily, and confidently, was whipt round the ‘Change: he confessing it a lie, and that he did it in hopes to get something.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Without injustice to his fame, I may discern some blemishes in the sanctity and greatness of the restorer of the Western empire.
— 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

He slid his head around a corner of rock, where began an unusually large bend in the stream, and his quick eyes made out something that sent him crouching swiftly down.
— from White Fang by Jack London

Soon afterwards there was a real burying, and the old man, determined to see if there would be in the scene any resemblance to his last Teulu, went to the churchyard and waited.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

A blazing fire was burning in the stove, and they were cooking a dinner which struck me as being a rather luxurious one for poor people.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

“On another occasion, when walking along the shore she bought a large fish which had just been caught, simply to throw it back into the sea again.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Observing some beggars in the street as we walked along, I said to him I supposed there was no civilized country in the world, where the misery of want in the lowest classes of the people was prevented.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

At the other end of Scarborough are two public rooms for the use of the company, who resort to this place in the summer to drink the waters and bathe in the sea; and the diversions are pretty much on the same footing here as at Bath.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Several such-like examples there are, both in the sacred and other histories, as in the case of Joseph in Egypt.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?' (Gal 3:2,3).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

“Been in the saddle all day?”
— from The One-Way Trail: A story of the cattle country by Ridgwell Cullum

The voice of this witness drives back into the shadow all the interested falsehoods which during the last three years have served to idealise the European slaughter-house.
— from The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

The gateway looks as if it had been carved by the dints of bullets in the stone, and close by, a breach in the huge enclosing wall scored all over by shot gave ingress to the murderous host.
— from Enchanted India by Bozidar Karadordevic

She put Blue in the stable and fed him, with that half-mechanical habit of attending to the needs of one's mount which becomes second nature to the range-bred.
— from The Ranch at the Wolverine by B. M. Bower

In the panic the great galleass of Don Hugo de Monçada ran aground on the sands and there lay basking in the sun, an unconcerned witness of the conflict that ensued between Pym and Trollope, who had now turned Spaniard, on the one side and Drusilla and her brother on the other.
— from The Golden Galleon Being a Narrative of the Adventures of Master Gilbert Oglander, and of how, in the Year 1591, he fought under the gallant Sir Richard Grenville in the Great Sea-fight off Flores, on board her Majesty's Ship the Revenge by Robert Leighton

I quote from Page 7 of that document, Paragraph 5; from the original book, Page 95, Paragraph 3: “Thus the SS and the police form one unit, both in their structure and in their activity, although their individual organizations have not lost their true individuality and their position in the larger units of the Party and State administration which are concerned with other points of view.”
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 4 by Various

Having enclosed the holy body in the sepulchre and placed it in the oratory, they built over it a tiny church with an altar for the use of the people of the neighbourhood.
— from Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain by Annette M. B. Meakin

Professor Alexander Bain, in “The Senses and the Intellect,” thus describes this talent :— “When it first occurred to a reflecting mind that moving water had a property identical with human or brute force, namely, the property of setting other masses in motion, overcoming resistance and inertia—when the sight of the stream suggested through this point of likeness the power of the animal—a new addition was made to the class of prime movers, and when circumstances permitted, this power could be made a substitute for the others.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles