Amidst this sordid scene, sat a man with his clenched hands resting on his knees, and his eyes bent on the ground.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Yet all was not lost, as long as Pavia was defended by one thousand Goths, inspired by a sense of honor, the love of freedom, and the memory of their past greatness.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

O, God save ye! Ev'n to the Hall, to hear what shall become Of the great Duke of Buckingham.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

3rd, The prostate should be incised sparingly, for, in addition to the known fact that the gland when only partly cut admits of dilatation to a degree sufficient to admit the passage of even a stone of large size, it is also stated upon high authority that by incising the prostate and neck of the bladder to a length equal to the diameter of the stone, such a proceeding is more frequently followed with disastrous results, owing to the circumstance that the pelvic fascia being divided at the place where it is reflected upon the base of the gland and the side and neck of the bladder, allows the urine to infiltrate the cellular tissue of the pelvis.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Sanga ang gihandayan sa sumbuhan sa pagtumung, He rested the barrel of the gun on the branch as he took aim.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And as he said this he let down his leg from the bed on the ground, and in this posture continued during the remainder of the discussion.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

“Yes, always first both on the grassland and here
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And then he assigned as his own station the mid-heavens, in order that from all sides he may bestow equal blessings on the gods who came forth by his agency and in company with him; and that he may guide the seven spheres 710 in the heavens and the eighth sphere 711 also,
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

The Anthony and Read farms were adjoining a mile east of Adams, and lay upon the first level or "bench" of the Green mountains.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

How many of the Indians were killed in this first encounter, it is not possible to say, but the sight [Pg 217] of several empty saddles, and several lifeless bodies on the ground around the ranch bore testimony to the fact that the bullets from the buffalo guns had done some execution.
— from The Indians' Last Fight; Or, The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins

Come, as it did to John Randolph, who, after years of atheism and worldliness and ambition, left on record, "that the only men he ever knew well and approached closely, whom he did not discover to be unhappy, were sincere believers of the Gospel, who conformed their lives, as far as the nature of man can permit, to its precepts."
— from Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women, and Things. by Fanny Fern

This was no easy task, because half of each one of the hinges of the wings was missing, it being still fastened to the body of the Gargoyle who had used it.
— from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The word Baro indéed is older than that it may easilie be found from whence it came: for euen in the oldest histories both of the Germans and Frenchmen, written since the conquest, we read of barons, and those are at this daie called among the Germans Liberi vel Ingenui, or Freihers in the Germane toong as some men doo coniecture, or (as one saith) the citizens and burgesses of good townes and cities were called Barones.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

She disliked winter, the lumpy brown turf mildewed by the frost, but one day she was moved by a quality, hitherto unsuspected, in the delicate tracery against the sky made by the slender branches of the great elms and maples.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

"They ain't nothin' in that brand of talk," growled Buck, reddening.
— from The Night Horseman by Max Brand

I remember that when passing some ladies on my way down to dinner, they feebly endeavouring to eat a biscuit or two and drink a glass of champagne, one turned [Pg 50] her pallid face to another and murmured, "I am so glad that energetic little man has been obliged to give in at last!"
— from The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss

Landlord, servants, and a whole troup of police, came rushing into the hall, as the two gentlemen of Verona, revealing the joke, made the politest bows over their glasses, which they gracefully emptied.
— from The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Timothy Templeton