There was nothing but justling, scrambling, pulling, snatching, struggling, scolding, and screaming.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Between the marsh and the mountains which wall the valley is a respectable strip of fertile land; at the end of the valley, toward Dan, as much as half the land is solid and fertile, and watered by Jordan’s sources.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Not even rats in the wall, for they were starved out, or rather were never baited in—only squirrels on the roof and under the floor, a whip-poor-will on the ridge-pole, a blue jay screaming beneath the window, a hare or woodchuck under the house, a screech owl or a cat owl behind it, a flock of wild geese or a laughing loon on the pond, and a fox to bark in the night.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

About ten years ago this gentleman had the good fortune to be made entirely easy upon that score,—it being just so long since he left his parish,—and the whole world at the same time behind him,—and stands accountable to a Judge of whom he will have no cause to complain.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

[86] Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified by base and illiterate scribblers, that either write for vainglory, need, to get money, or as Parasites to flatter and collogue with some great men, they put cut
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs, Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The extremists and crackpots among them went on to develop the "stab-in-the-back" theory that an unbeaten Germany was betrayed from within by Jews, socialists, and democratic people.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

NINE or Pitching for the Blue Banner BASEBALL JOE AT YALE or Pitching for the College Championship BASEBALL JOE IN THE CENTRAL LEAGUE or Making Good as a Professional Pitcher BASEBALL JOE IN THE BIG LEAGUE or A Young Pitcher’s Hardest Struggles BASEBALL JOE ON THE GIANTS or Making Good as a Twirler in the Metropolis BASEBALL JOE IN THE WORLD SERIES or Pitching for the Championship BASEBALL JOE AROUND THE WORLD or Pitching on a Grand Tour BASEBALL JOE: HOME RUN KING or The Greatest Pitcher and Batter on Record BASEBALL JOE SAVING THE LEAGUE or Breaking Up a Great Conspiracy BASEBALL JOE CAPTAIN OF THE TEAM or Bitter Struggles on the Diamond BASEBALL JOE CHAMPION OF THE LEAGUE or The Record that was Worth
— from The Rival Pitchers: A Story of College Baseball by Lester Chadwick

The operatives’ wages would but just support them; any additional demands by their stomachs could only be answered by draughts upon their backs, which were by no means in a condition to answer them.
— from Knowledge for the Time A Manual of Reading, Reference, and Conversation on Subjects of Living Interest, Useful Curiosity, and Amusing Research by John Timbs

Suddenly I detected the sound of tramping horses' feet, and springing to my feet to get a better view out of the tent door, I looked in the direction from which the sounds came and could see indistinctly a party of mounted men, on the trot, skirting along the foot of the bluffs just southeast of camp, as though intending to pass it from the direction of To hausen's village.
— from The Wolf Hunters: A Story of the Buffalo Plains by Robert Morris Peck

But maybe there'll be just some stranded young fool glad of the job and the chance of makin' a little money without soiling his hands.
— from The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard

As to the inside, all the walls, instead of wainscot, were lined with hardened and painted tiles, like the little square tiles we call galley-tiles in England, all made of the finest china, and the figures exceeding fine indeed, with extraordinary variety of colours, mixed with gold, many tiles making but one figure, but joined so artificially, the mortar being made of the same earth, that it was very hard to see where the tiles met.
— from The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Austria, By J. S. C. Abbott.
— from The Alden Catalogue of Choice Books, May 30, 1889 by John B. (John Berry) Alden

By J. S. Skinner. cts.
— from Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Lewis Falley Allen

'Beautiful Julia,' said he—'I observe that you have a magnificent piano; will you favor me with an air?'
— from City Crimes; Or, Life in New York and Boston by George Thompson