I see your mournful party in my [108] mind's eye under every varying circumstance of the day; and in the evening especially figure to myself its sad gloom: the efforts to talk, the frequent summons to melancholy orders and cares, and poor Edward, restless in misery, going from one room to another, and perhaps not seldom upstairs, to see all that remains of his Elizabeth.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

Then, in the thought of nationality especially for the United States, and making them original, and different from all other countries, another point ever remains to be considered.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

In the grave one can afford to be lavish of charity, and possibly Earl Russell may have been honestly glad to reassure his personal friend Mr. Adams; but to one who is still in the world even if not of it, doubts are as plenty as days.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The Naval Commander-in-Chief had already lent one contingent, under Commander A. P. Ethelston, R.N., to garrison Stormberg.
— from History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office

I have been caught once, but managed to slip through their hands, but there is no possibility of making my way back across the country, for the Yankee cavalry are patrolling every road, and the only chance I have is of getting away by boat."
— from With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

[Pg 169] Some of the curious and puzzling empirical rules gained from the life-long experience of miners in regard to the varying richness and poorness of mineral lodes, according to the directions in which they strike—whether north, south, east or west—may very probably be explained, and to some extent justified, by the fuller light which science may throw upon the conditions determining the action of earth-currents in producing results similar to those of electro deposition.
— from Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast by George Sutherland

Secret Staircase to Tower Write for circulars and Prospectus end rend rend=';' ! ! !
— from The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady by Carolyn Wells

X. "Back to the cell and poor employ; Resume the craftsman and the boy!"
— from Evolution of Expression — Volume 1 by Charles Wesley Emerson

Not satisfied with that, Mr. Babbage constructed an analytical engine, which could be so arranged as to perform all kinds of mathematical calculations, and print each result.
— from Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville

And although this error was corrected, and perhaps entirely removed, by succeeding providences and instructions, from the minds of the Jews; yet, before the miracles in Egypt, while the God of Abraham was, perhaps, in most cases acknowledged as their God, the idols of Egypt were acknowledged as the gods of the Egyptians, and probably worshipped as the divinities who had power to dispense good and evil to all the inhabitants of that land.
— from Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation: A Book for the Times by James B. (James Barr) Walker

As soon as the washing is done, and the things ready, we'll start; for that will just give them time to put up the curtains, and put everything right."
— from It was a Lover and His Lass by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant