Hardly had he gone, when a little girl, with long fair curls, and dreamy blue eyes, stole softly in.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

The parts written for piccolo, bass flute, English horn, small clarinet, bass clarinet and double bassoon are taken by the second and third players in each group, who are more accustomed to using these instruments of a special nature.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

The conjunctions and adverbs used to coordinate sentences are: ( a. ) copulative and disjunctive; ( b. ) concessive and adversative; ( c. ) causal and illative.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Of minor intellectual excellences, some are not strictly Virtues: others are, such as Caution and Decision, being in part voluntary.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The city, in which such momentous years of my childhood and boyhood had been spent, seemed cold and dead beneath the influences of the wild, gloomy weather.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The origin of walled towns is ascribed to this calamitous period; nor could any distance be secure against an enemy, who, almost at the same instant, laid in ashes the Helvetian monastery of St. Gall, and the city of Bremen, on the shores of the northern ocean.
— 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

Nicholas coloured, and drew back a step or two.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The real loss was more severely felt by the Romans, in proportion to the smallness of their numbers; but the Goths were so deeply confounded and dismayed by this vigorous, and perhaps unexpected, resistance, that they remained seven days within the circle of their fortifications.
— 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

Accordingly, she seized the opportunity which Mrs. Caudle, as depicted by Douglas Jerrold, devoted to curtain lectures, and plainly gave Mr. Foxville to understand that “she wouldn’t have it,” meaning the match in question, for she stated she knew that Wodehouse was as poor as a church mouse.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

In 1799 foreign danger once again [255] caused him to be entrusted with a military command, and once again he was opposed by his old adversary, the Archduke Charles, and driven back in retreat across the Rhine.
— from Napoleon's Marshals by R. P. Dunn-Pattison

His lovely wife, the lady of the domain; his children shooting fast up into beautiful manhood and womanhood; his castle and domain built, and won, as they were, from the regions of enchantment; and friends and worshipers flocking from every country, to behold the far famed minstrel.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 2 (of 2) by William Howitt

He remained for a few days at some farms near the city, agitated deeply by conflicting passions.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

"There are a number of hotels here with English names," said the captain at dinner; "but I shall not trouble you to take a vote on the question of going to one of them, for we shall not remain here long, not more than one day.
— from Four Young Explorers; Or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Oliver Optic

to the members of one Church, and denies Baptism, the Lord's Supper, and worship to all who will not come to the one Church, punishes petitioners to itself for civil and religious freedom from those who were deprived of it, and punishes as "treason" their appeal for redress to the English Parliament.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

The unprivileged class attempted desperately, but in vain, to hold its own in the contest, and could find nothing more to surrender than some of the special privileges and franchises attached to certain provinces and cities of the kingdom.
— from The French Revolution: A Short History by R. M. (Robert Matteson) Johnston

She could always die, but was it not hard to perish in her youth and with the world’s cup of bliss untasted?
— from Demos by George Gissing

AT A VILLA—DOWN IN THE CITY (AS DISTINGUISHED BY AN ITALIAN PERSON OF QUALITY)
— from Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry