In this picture, with much art and dexterity, he counterfeited in the travailing of the figures the turmoil of the air and the fury of the rain and of the wind, wherefrom the modern masters have learnt the method and the principle of this invention, by reason of which, since it was unknown before, he deserved infinite commendation.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

The 8th and 9th books are not entire; passages are curtailed, and much is omitted, to which the attention is not drawn, the lines being run on without spaces left to mark omissions.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

If a man has shot his wife's paramour, by reason of what subtile repugnancy in things is it that we are so disgusted when we hear that the wife and the husband have made it up and are living comfortably together again?
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

The Government had an air of social instability and incompleteness that went far to support the right of secession in theory as in fact; but right or wrong, secession was likely to be easy where there was so little to secede from.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

He retired from York when Wilfrid was restored, but appears to have been reinstated on Wilfrid's second expulsion.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

When we came back, nothing would serve him but he must read us the poems he had been speaking of; and Miss Pole encouraged him in his proposal, I thought, because she wished me to hear his beautiful reading, of which she had boasted; but she afterwards said it was because she had got to a difficult part of her crochet, and wanted to count her stitches without having to talk.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Daily the cousins trot through dust and canter over roadside turf, away to hustings and polling-booths (with leather gloves and hunting-whips for the counties and kid gloves and riding-canes for the boroughs), and daily bring back reports on which Sir Leicester holds forth after dinner.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Her family is strong, but, rightly or wrongly, she thinks Ella very delicate.
— from The Third Miss St Quentin by Mrs. Molesworth

Along the whole way, shattered wheels and broken remains of waggons still lay, buried among the mud.
— from Waterloo Days: The narrative of an Englishwoman resident at Brussels in June 1815 by Charlotte A. (Charlotte Anne) Eaton

However, it was not necessary to do so; for, on the opposite side of the stream Jim saw, when José pointed it out to him, a black, round opening which, said the Indian, was the mouth of the treasure-cavern.
— from Under the Chilian Flag: A Tale of War between Chili and Peru by Harry Collingwood

With a little soft cry—I hear it now, gentle, but having in it a world of agony—Sakîna sank at my feet ... and her blood began to trickle over the black rocks on which she lay.
— from Tales of Secret Egypt by Sax Rohmer

He begins to be religious only when such an ideal determines the atmosphere of his daily living; when he regards the immanence of such an ideal in nature and history as the object of his will; and when he responds to its presence in the spirit of his conduct and his contemplation.
— from The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

It is doubtful whether a sufficient number of cases of excess in opium-eating or of recovery from the habit have yet been recorded, or whether such as have been recorded have been so collated as to warrant a positive statement as to all the phenomena attendant upon its use or its abandonment.
— from The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day

Burrows rode on without stopping.
— from Waifs and Strays Part 1 by O. Henry