A brief outline of the poem will show the general tenor of Pope's argument.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

That was indeed bravado, one of those pieces of impudence of which a woman makes use when she dares everything, risks everything, to wound and humiliate the man who has aroused her ire.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Her escape from being one of the party to Clifton was now an escape indeed; for what would the Tilneys have thought of her, if she had broken her promise to them in order to do what was wrong in itself, if she had been guilty of one breach of propriety, only to enable her to be guilty of another?
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

no provision of any discription was to be obtained of these people.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Then for the first time a triumph was celebrated by order of the people, without the authority of the senate.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

After a good many had mounted they were discovered by the sentinels in the towers, by the noise made by a tile which was knocked down by one of the Plataeans as he was laying hold of the battlements.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

I will do myself the justice to say, that I have never had any better opinion of the philosophies of all those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I found this single sheet upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

His wives, disregarding the orders of the English against Suttee, would have broken out of the palace had not the gates been barred.
— from Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling

But London as well as Kensington rejoiced, and the festivities were wound up with a ball given at St. James's Palace by order of the poor King and Queen, over whose heads the cloud of sorrow and parting was hanging heavily.
— from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 by Sarah Tytler

Pleasonton, who was scouting in the vicinity, had no orders to go through the pass, but felt prompted to do so by one of those presentiments which rarely deceive.
— from Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI by Abner Doubleday

When the pigs broke out of the pen, about nine o’clock, and Hiram was away, and Mrs. Hiram needed our help to get them in—there was no use in pretending that we meant to do it.
— from More Jonathan Papers by Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris

"Where's Bundaberg House, Bill?" "Out on the Portsmouth Road nearly to Thames Ditton," was the reply.
— from The Beautiful White Devil by Guy Boothby

The visit seemed an event worth looking forward to, not only on its own account, but because Monica was to be one of the party.
— from The Manor House School by Angela Brazil

Upon this, however, I made this conclusion; that my only way to go about to attempt an escape was, if possible, to get a savage into my possession; and, if possible, it should be one of their prisoners
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes by Daniel Defoe

This feature has not received the attention it deserves, for it is more than probable that in the ultimate classification of ruins that will some day be formulated the site occupied will be one of the principal elements considered, if not the most important.
— from The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 by Cosmos Mindeleff