In addition, her good and faithful mate may for many years have been lacking in that sufficient sexual capacity which the well-preserved woman needs for her satisfaction.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

In 1847 he bought land in the same locality.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

The candle was burning low in the socket when he rose to his feet.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The surface of the province, which is entirely surrounded by native States, is hilly in the north and west, where there is a branch of the Aravali range, but level in the south and east.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Another fleet, on its way to besiege Lilybæum, in the same year, was lost off Cape Pactyrus.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

And now, as she got near the place, she reflected that it was already March, and, by that time, there would certainly be lambs in the stall.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Commanded with marked ability the British Legion in the service of Spain.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

In wild disorder they turned and stampeded back, soon to be lost in the screening mist.
— from A Son of the Sahara by Louise Gerard

[Pg 235] and for a day or two another snow-storm had been lowering in the sky, much to our anxiety.
— from Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James Fowler Rusling

Mr Walton and Uncle Ramsay had a snack in the office that evening instead of coming up to supper, and when Mrs Broadbent looked in to say good-night she found them both quiet and hard at work.
— from From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables

The following day, the Princess de Conti, who had been let into the secret, took Madame de Bassompierre to the Constable’s hotel and presented her to the Duchesse d’Angoulême, who received her very graciously, observing: “We shall be the two mothers of our newly-married pair, and I know not whether you or I, Madame, will be the most rejoiced.”
— from A Gallant of Lorraine; vol. 1 of 2 François, Seigneur de Bassompierre, Marquis d'Haronel, Maréchal de France, 1579-1646 by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

And you who bow down before the state; you who set up this state above you, and surrender yourselves to it absolutely—you have breathed life into the statue of Frankenstein; you would rid yourselves of it if you could, but you have created that which you cannot destroy, and forged for yourselves an agent of self-destruction.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

After the betrothal was celebrated, Isabel and Luis did not separate, but lived in the same palace, as though they had been brother and sister, until, by the will of God, they became husband and wife.
— from The Marquis of Peñalta (Marta y María): A Realistic Social Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés

You would, nevertheless, not be liable in the sense in which we are using the term "law."
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill

Yet I deserve it.—What, after so long an absence to quarrel with her tenderness!—'twas barbarous and unmanly!—I should be ashamed to see her now.—I'll wait till her just resentment is abated—and when I distress her so again, may I lose her for ever! and be linked instead to some antique virago, whose gnawing passions, and long hoarded spleen, shall make me curse my folly half the day and all the night.
— from The Rivals: A Comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Old men, youths, and boys labored in transporting stones, hewing them, and carrying them on their shoulders under the direction of the official lash, and afterwards, the survivors returned to their homes or perished [9] in the sands of the desert.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

You never saw anything so grand as the houses here; but I would rather be back, living in the smallest house there, than have to stay in this great city, where there are so many rich people, and, yes, George, a great many more poor folks than I thought were in the whole world.
— from Watch—Work—Wait Or, The Orphan's Victory by Sarah A. (Sarah Ann) Myers