Other such flags, or what are called Occurrences, and black or bright symbolic Phenomena; will flit through the Historical Imagination: these, one after one, let us note, with extreme brevity.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

After seeing their way to building or buying suitable cottages there, they would enter into communication with some of the employers of low-waged labour.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

13 At this juncture the Sabine women, from the outrage on whom the war originated, with hair dishevelled and garments rent, the timidity of their sex being overcome by such dreadful scenes, had the courage to throw themselves amid the flying weapons, and making a rush across, to part the incensed armies, and assuage their fury; imploring their fathers on the one side, their husbands on the other, "that as fathers-in-law and sons-in-law they would not contaminate each other with impious blood, nor stain their offspring with parricide, the one [19] their grandchildren, the other their children.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

It was an ugly island rock at a distance on our left, called Heiligeland, well known to many passengers from Yarmouth to Hamburg, who have been obliged by stormy weather to pass weeks and weeks in weary captivity on it, stripped of all their money by the exorbitant demands of the wretches who inhabit it.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Bohol and southern Leyte there is a tendency for /al/ at the end of a word to become /aw/ and /ul/ to become /u/: bagal or bagaw ‘shell’.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The inevitable consequence is the breakdown of both security and of procedure.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

When all are ready, fry them in butter and sweet lard, mix over a moderate fire until brown on both sides.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

Out of this pigstye Berlin, I will construct a neat and handsome residence for myself, from this miserable house a splendid palace shall spring forth, and all the arts and sciences shall find their patron in the lord commanding in the Mark, when he is no longer merely called Stadtholder, but—" He looked anxiously behind him, as if he dreaded being overheard by some one.
— from The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

40 He, at first, intended to celebrate his triumph in the month of January; but, hearing that the consul Æmilius, in consequence of a letter from the tribune Abutius, concerning his waving his protest, was coming in person to Rome, to hinder his triumph, but had been obliged, by sickness to halt on the road, he hastened the time of the celebration, lest he should have more contests about it than he had met in the war.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

The power to effect the conditions described will be obtained by subduing
— from Riding and Driving by Edward L. (Edward Lowell) Anderson

The back is dark, sprinkled with buff; a broad band of buff, sprinkled with blackish hairs, extends along the sides; the underparts are pure white.
— from Mammals of Mount Rainier National Park by Russell K. Grater

My movements seem to be observed by some mysterious eye.
— from The Forest of Swords: A Story of Paris and the Marne by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

It was a great stay to her home-sickness that there should be on board some one she knew who almost shared her home country, who had actually met people she had met, and who would carry this home knowledge out with him to the same region in Africa as that she was going to.
— from The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance by Harry Johnston

Their first act was to bore a hole in the turning-box through which they might peep at the musician, who was no longer clad in rags, but in wide breeches of buff silk, cut sailor fashion, a jacket of the same material, a satin cap to match, and a starched double-pointed ruff, all which he had brought in his wallet, expecting that he would have to show himself on an occasion which would require him to change his costume.
— from The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra