All are dismounted; the freed horses stand with drooping heads and wet sides; they are to be led off presently in groups, to water.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

And then we have presented similar brief lists of parallels in Chapter XXIII., comprised in a comparative view of the miraculous lives of the Judean and Egyptian Saviors, Christ, Alcides, Osiris, Tulis, &c.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Assuming that B adopts the very best lines of play in order to prolong as much as possible his existence, A, if he has first move, can always on his 12th move capture B; and if he has the second move, A can always on his 14th move make the capture.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

"Such a reactionary desire, madam," said the stranger, trying to avoid falling over in our direction and to remain standing outside the room, "does no credit to your development, and is conditioned by lack of phosphorus in your brain.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There must be lots of people in the village who'd like to help to make him a birthday.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

There will consequently be less of personal influence on the side of the former than of the latter.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

But, let others philosophize; it is my province here to relate and describe; only allowing myself a word or two, occasionally, to assist the reader in the proper understanding of the facts narrated.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

347 Bismuth, i. 14 Bitumens, ii. 239 Black lead, or plumbago, i. 304 Bleaching, i. 32 . ii. 89 .
— from Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet

Of course I could never tell if it got there by accident, or was hanged by its mates; but lots of people I told the story to said it looked mighty suspicious.”
— from The Pioneer Boys of the Yellowstone; or, Lost in the Land of Wonders by St. George Rathborne

Then, when Mrs. Blake just now told us about her brother living on Pine Island, and when she said we might go to see him, I thought I'd tell you about the hermit.
— from Fairview Boys at Camp Mystery; or, the Old Hermit and His Secret by Frederick Gordon

If God were a bit like other people I knew He would say, "What an odd child!"
— from The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

There was nothing heroic in it; we had no object: it was merely, as it must appear by this time, a pleasure excursion, and we might be lost or perish in it without reward and with little sympathy.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 by Charles Dudley Warner

We have seen that it is the Invisible which is the Real, that the visible is only its shadow; that the Invisible, as distinguished from the Visible, is not in a place apart from the Physical, but is the Reality of which the visible constitutes the boundary lines or planes in our consciousness, as lines and planes are the visible boundaries of solids.
— from Science and the Infinite; or, Through a Window in the Blank Wall by Sydney T. (Sydney Turner) Klein

Ornate bronzes lurked on pedestals in shadows, unexpectedly, and caught the eye alarmingly, like grim ones set to watch.
— from The Witness by Grace Livingston Hill

Yemen: Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Arab world, reported strong growth in the mid-1990s with the onset of oil production, but was harmed by low oil prices in 1998.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[*68] In 1562 Guidobaldo had augmented the tax on grain by leave of Pius IV.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 by James Dennistoun