As soon as this volume began to circulate, Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt fell into a state of coma, arising either from sleep or a rheumatic paroxysm.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The corruption of his name into Sanguin , afforded the Latins a comfortable allusion to his sanguinary character and end, fit sanguine sanguinolentus.
— 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

For several minutes Munro paced the chamber with long and rapid strides, his rigid features working convulsively, and every faculty seemingly absorbed in the musings of his own mind.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

B , S , S96: Chambers adopts Eye from S , O'F reads eye , and TCC alters crye to eye , all retaining ecchoes .
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

She had come to Bath on that account, and was now in lodgings near the hot baths, living in a very humble way, unable even to afford herself the comfort of a servant, and of course almost excluded from society.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

When I first saw Mr. Osgood's beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

When I used to read that in Sunday School, it suggested to me the several kings of such countries as England, France, Spain, Germany, Russia, etc., arrayed in splendid robes ablaze with jewels, marching in grave procession, with sceptres of gold in their hands and flashing crowns upon their heads.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Camilla in reply said he could repose more at his ease in the reception-room than in his chair, and begged of him to go in and sleep there; but Lothario declined, and there he remained asleep until the return of Anselmo, who finding Camilla in her own room, and Lothario asleep, imagined that he had stayed away so long as to have afforded them time enough for conversation and even for sleep, and was all impatience until Lothario should wake up, that he might go out with him and question him as to his success.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Year after year she had followed them up, insisting that in the conventions women teachers should hold offices, serve on committees and exercise free speech; demanding that they should be eligible to all positions in the schools with equal pay for equal work; and compelling a general recognition of their rights.
— 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

Loammi opened the door and led the way into a large chamber about eighteen feet square, very neatly and comfortably furnished.
— from The Young Salesman by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Among the most curious trees of the Senegal, whose Flora has quite a character of its own, travellers have singled out the Butter Tree ( Bassia butyracea , family of the Sapotaceæ ), whose fruits contain an edible fatty substance, used by the natives as a substitute for butter; and the Henna ( Lawsonia inermis ), which also flourishes on the eastern coast and in Upper Egypt.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

She was full of schemes for household comfort and economy, for serving his people, for blessing Windover.
— from A Singular Life by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Then came another even finer series called Mirgorod, which won the admiration of Pushkin.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

But in the Crocodile the coracoid is compressed, and expanded from side to side both proximally and distally.
— from The Ornithosauria An elementary study of the bones of Pterodactyles made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge by H. G. (Harry Govier) Seeley

Of Haagen Swendsen, "who was, in 1702, convicted and executed for stealing Mrs. Rawlins," he says: "Nowadays, he would have been unhesitatingly acquitted, even if he had ever been presented, as there was no real case against him, and Mrs. Rawlins married him of her own free will." In the Report of the Royal Commission, 1868 , xxi-xxiii, it is estimated that one-third of all the marriages in the eighteenth century were "irregular;" whereas, after 1834, when the ministers of all denominations could solemnize, irregularity became a "stigma," the number of such contracts now (1868) being in the ratio of 1 to 1,000.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

In the bazaars several species of edible crabs are exposed for sale; and amongst the delicacies at the tables of Europeans, curries made from prawns and lobsters are the triumphs of the Ceylon cuisine.
— from Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

In 1788, a Scotch gentleman, named William Brodie, was tried and convicted at Edinburgh, for stealing bank-notes and money, with violence.
— from The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2) by Andrew Steinmetz

The embargo was severely felt by Great Britain while in force, every article which they had been accustomed to receive from us rose immediately in price, and I am confident that had it been continued and executed, full satisfaction would have been given by Britain for the various outrages which had been committed on our honor and independence.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

My Lord, this document is an extract from the standing orders of the U-boat command, an extract from Standing Order Number 154, and it is signed by the defendant: “Paragraph e) Do not pick up men or take them with you.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various