Let me place the bow round it ( gives a mark with her finger round the floor, while reading a certain verse as a sacred formula read to a God ).
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

In fact, recognition is another instance of the peculiarity of causal laws in psychology, namely, that the causal unit is not a single event, but two or more events Habit is the great instance of this, but recognition is another.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

When it was decided to try and elevate Chicago out of the mud by raising its immense blocks up to grade, the young son of a poor mechanic, named George M. Pullman, appeared on the scene, and put in a bid for the great undertaking, and the contract was awarded to him.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

but returned it, I should be easier, because my sentiments of it would then be known to him; but now, he can only gather them from my behaviour; and I tremble lest he should mistake my indignation for confusion!-lest he should misconstrue my reserve into embarrassment!-for
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Hinc modo voti Rata fides, validis quod dux premat impiger armis Edomuit quos pace puer; bellumque repressit Ignarus quid bella forent.
— 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

The next morning when I came out I found a Confederate colonel there, who reported to me and said that he was the proprietor of that house, and that he was a colonel of a regiment that had been raised in that neighborhood.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

As a rule at eleven o'clock in the morning the electric bell rang in my footman's quarters to let me know that my master was awake.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She shook her head slowly but rather inscrutably.
— from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

This is a “new” and commercially and gastronomically important root vegetable, the flavor reminding of a combination of chestnuts and potatoes, popularly known as “Chinese potatoes” which has been recently introduced by the U. S. Government from the West Indies where it received the name, Dasheen, derived from de Chine —from China.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

And to confess the truth, my lords, if I may be allowed, in imitation of these patrons of their country, to indulge my own imagination, and presume to look forward to the future conduct of those who have exerted such unwearied industry in their attempts upon the administration, and so long pursued the right honourable gentleman with inquiries, examinations, rhetorick, and ridicule, I cannot but find myself inclined to question whether, after their motion shall have been received in this house, and their petition granted by his majesty, they will very solicitously inquire after evidence, or be equally diligent in the discovery of truth, as in the persecution of the minister.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I by Samuel Johnson

And Adam's relation to the Affable Archangel of his own suddenly-dawned morning from the night of non-existence, aptly and happily crowned upon the relation made to him by Raphael in the Seventh Book of his own forming under the Omnipotent Hand?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 404, June, 1849 by Various

While he spoke, Wallace regarded him with a look which pierced him to the center; and the blood rushing into his guilty heart, for once in his life he trembled before the eye of man.
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

“This says it is best to let the boat rest in the water a few hours after launching to swell the seams before starting the engine, as they might strain open.”
— from The Motor Boys Afloat; or, The Stirring Cruise of the Dartaway by Clarence Young

For B had to import some things by rail in any case, while the fact that less business in the aggregate reached the Pacific Coast by sea reduced the shipping facilities which B otherwise would have had at his command.
— from Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific by Stuart Daggett

There is something deliciously quiet and deliberate about humor, that is in perfect harmony with the English character; and we have been right in adopting the English name for the thing, seeing that the thing is essentially English.
— from English Pharisees French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by Max O'Rell

All the pieces for a ship are sent to the shipyard ready to be riveted in their proper places.
— from A School History of the Great War by Charles Augustin Coulomb

After brief reflection I concluded I would risk it, and then, just by way of encouragement, Mr. Cazauran, who had always been at pains to speak as kindly of my work as that work would allow, when he was critic on the different papers, declared that all my acquired skill and natural power of expressing emotion united would prove useless to me—that Miss Multon was to be my Waterloo, and to all anxious or surprised "whys?" sapiently made answer: "No children."
— from Life on the Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections by Clara Morris

Is it necessary to add that the ironical reception given to such exhibitions of boastfulness rouse in him a feeling of irritation which is all the greater for the fact that he does not openly show it?
— from Poise: How to Attain It by D. Starke