Driver darts up, Brewer leaps in, they cheer him as he departs, and Mr Podsnap says, 'Mark my words, sir.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Secondly, the Brahmans, whose task it would naturally have been to record great deeds, had early embraced the doctrine that all action and existence are a positive evil, and could therefore have felt but little inclination to chronicle historical events.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Now place a counter in every hole except the central one, No. 17, and the puzzle is to take off all the counters in a series of jumps, except the last counter, which must be left in that central hole.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Men who had been longest in the country had never ascended beyond the Upper St. Mary’s Lake—from its shape called Bow Lake in early times—nor beyond the large lake on Swift Current, which receives the water from the river’s three forks.
— from Jack the Young Explorer: A Boy's Experiances in the Unknown Northwest by George Bird Grinnell

He adds that he has “known several deacons and others in the University [of Athens] that were skeptics even as to the truth of religion,” and would gladly have become laymen if they could have secured a livelihood.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

"During the two years and a half that President Taylor has been living in this condition, he has been cut off from all the society and loving ministrations of his family.
— from The Life of John Taylor Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

He reiterated what he had already said upon slavery; but late in the canvass he went one step further.
— from Martin Van Buren by Edward Morse Shepard

About an hour after he had lain down, when, no doubt, he was but little inclined to compose himself to rest, the servant, armed with a clasp-knife, entered the room on tip-toe, drew near the bed, and was about to fulfil his murderous intention.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

Likewise they prayed that so long as a burgher lived in the city he should never be required to attend any foreign court whatever by reason of any foreign tenure he might hold; and that no foreign tenement should give the right to sheriffs or foreign bailiff to summon him to be in juries or inquests outside the city.
— from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green

But, looking into the chapel, he recognized the chaplain as one of the leading priests in one of the lengthiest of masses, which was just commencing.
— from The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Branch lines in this country have, as has been already stated, been carried into sparsely populated districts to [Pg 124] an extent unknown in France, Germany, Belgium or Holland, and the English railways afford greater facilities by reason of a larger proportion of the lines being double.
— from Railway Rates: English and Foreign by James Grierson