—They were the sweetest notes I ever heard; and I instantly let down the fore-glass to hear them more distinctly—'Tis Maria; said the postillion, observing I was listening—Poor Maria, continued he (leaning his body on one side to let me see her, for he was in a line betwixt us), is sitting upon a bank playing her vespers upon her pipe, with her little goat beside her.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

We said at the beginning of our story, that the Epanchins were liked and esteemed by their neighbours.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For some minutes the room seemed quite in an uproar; the rage of Madame Duval, the astonishment of M. Du Bois, and the angry interrogatories of Mr. Branghton, on one side; the convulsive tittering of the sisters, and the loud laughs of the young men, on the other, occasioned such noise, passion and confusion, that had any one stopped an instant on the stairs, he must have concluded himself in Bedlam.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

These people tell this tale, that Isis placed coffins of Osiris in various places, but that one only contained the body of Osiris, so that no one knew which of them it was; and that she did this with the intention of concealing it from Typhon, 842 who might come and cast the body out of its place of deposit.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Yes, you—you Gentiles who before were dead, when ye walked in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your unchastened carnal heathen heart—even you did God quicken into life together with Christ; then and there freely forgiving all of us—Jews and Gentiles alike—all our transgressions; then and there cancelling the bond which stood valid against us (for it bore our own signature), the bond which engaged us to fulfil all the law of ordinances, which was our stern pitiless tyrant.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

"You must sit still all you can, and keep your back out of sight; the front is all right.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Physicists distinguish between macroscopic and microscopic equations: the former determine the visible movements of bodies of ordinary size, the latter the minute occurrences in the smallest parts.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

If you are constantly running in, to put a chair back, open or shut the windows, or arrange the furniture, you will entirely destroy the pleasantest part of your guest's visit, by reminding her that she is not at home, and must not take liberties, even in her own room.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

In describing lithotomy Paul says: ‘We take the instrument called the lithotomy knife (τὸ καλούμενον λιθοτόμον), and between the anus and the testicles, not however in the middle of the perinaeum, but on one side, towards the left buttock, we make an oblique incision cutting down straight on the stone where it projects’ (VI. lx).
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

It became a question whether he had fallen among the unrecognized; but no broken ornament or stained trapping betrayed his fate.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

[Pg 310] Dr. A.T. Pierson, speaking of the wonderful way in which Providence opened the doors of access in those times, wrote as follows: "Most countries shut out Christian missions by organized opposition, so that to attempt to bear the good tidings was simply to dare death for Christ's sake; the only welcome awaiting God's messengers was that of cannibal ovens, merciless prisons, or martyr graves.
— from Our Day In the Light of Prophecy by William Ambrose Spicer

Yet neither these measures nor lavish bribes to secular rulers proved efficacious, and even the iron resolution of the commissioners, Pierre de Castelnau and Arnaud of Citeaux, was breaking down beneath the weight of persistent failure, when a certain Spaniard, Diego de Arzevedo, Bishop of Osma, suggested to the legates the scheme of an evangelistic enterprise.
— from Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition by Arthur Stanley Turberville

They found on him a small round card fixed between two pieces of glass, and bearing on one side the arms of France, with the motto, "Surveillance and vigilance," and on the other this notice, "JAVERT, Police Inspector, fifty-two years of age," and the signature of the Prefect of Police of that day, M. Gisquet.
— from Les Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic by Victor Hugo

Between it and the shad-blow of earliest spring lies the mountain of bloom; the latter at the base on one side, this at the base on the other, with the chestnut blossoms at the top in midsummer.
— from A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs

After all she did not eat a morsel of it; and what ailed that silly old woman there to toss up a bit omelette or something, to save the bird—and they're so clever at omelettes abroad," the good man said, with true regret.
— from The Wizard's Son, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Some laughed at him; some cursed him; but one old sailor took him to the house of a Catholic priest.
— from Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon

As a matter of fact, he did, allowing the Union Vales to tally two runs, but after that he had five chances and accepted them all, while at bat he made the very creditable showing of two hits for a total of three bases out of six times up.
— from Pitcher Pollock by Christy Mathewson

The cutter boarded on one side, the two gigs on the other—one at the fore-rigging, the other at the mizzen-chains; so that the crew had to separate into three divisions to oppose us.
— from Peter the Whaler by William Henry Giles Kingston

When the light was dim, and only a very little brighter on one side than on the other, the movement consisted of a succession of ellipses, directed towards the light, each of which approached nearer to its source than the previous one.
— from The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Francis, Sir

I have been out of sorts to-day and have laid up for repairs.
— from Diary of an Enlisted Man by Lawrence Van Alstyne