That the Duke de Medina's Niece, that the destined Bride of the Marquis de las Cisternas, One bred up in affluence, related to the noblest families in Spain, and rich in a multitude of affectionate Friends, that She should in one moment become a Captive, separated from the world for ever, weighed down with chains, and reduced to support life with the coarsest aliments, appeared a change so sudden and incredible, that I believed myself the sport of some frightful vision.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

President McKinley was then away from Washington, on a southern trip, to Atlanta and Macon, Georgia, and other points, and nobody at home was giving any thought to the Filipinos, while they were knocking successively at the gates of the various Visayan capitals, and receiving the surrender of their Spanish defenders.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Who does not recall to mind the immense forces transported by the Persians upon the Black Sea, the Bosporus, and the Archipelago,—the innumerable hosts landed in Greece by Xerxes and Darius,—the great expeditions of the Carthaginians and Romans to Spain and Sicily, that of Alexander into Asia
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Jude said she was disposed to do so, he thought, and his ingenious arguments on her natural fitness for assisting Mr. Phillotson, of which Jude knew nothing whatever, so influenced the schoolmaster that he said he would engage her, assuring Jude as a friend that unless his cousin really meant to follow on in the same course, and regarded this step as the first stage of an apprenticeship, of which her training in a normal school would be the second stage, her time would be wasted quite, the salary being merely nominal.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

“She and her crew are ready to start at a moment’s notice!”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Cutting out the backs of coaches, and robbing the seats.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

"Not necessarily in this case, Atherton," replied the Scoutmaster.
— from The Scouts of Seal Island by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Hands clutching money, were thrust aloft out of the jam by men who hoped this eloquent appeal would cleave a road their strugglings could not open.
— from Roughing It, Part 5. by Mark Twain

‘A character of this crowded age,’ returned the salesman.
— from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson

v INTRODUCTION I have been asked to write a few lines of introduction to these volumes of Country Plays, and I do so, not because I can claim any right to speak with authority on the subject of drama, but in order that I may associate myself and express my sympathy with the endeavour which the author has made to restore to his rightful estate the English peasant with whom my work for twenty years or more has brought me into close relations.
— from Six Plays by Darwin, Florence Henrietta Fisher, Lady

Alice was fully dressed and quietly turned on her heel; Left the house by the basement; walked to the corner And river; threw something deep in its water; then back To the house where she’d killed him— Leaving the front door open....
— from Feline Philosophy by Walter Léon Hess

In just a week from to-day I shall again be one of those unrecognisible figures who cross and recross the silent streets of our town—some one who no longer belongs to the same world as you—some one who must not even think as you do—some one who will have to try and forget she led the existence of a Western woman for six long, weary years.
— from A Turkish Woman's European Impressions by hanoum Zeyneb

"I can see a wide, sandy bay with rocks and cliffs, a rough tumbling sea, and at the head of the bay a dense wood; but the people are not like any I've ever seen before.
— from Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by C. A. (Catharine Amy) Dawson Scott

Wouldn’t you like to be a regular customer, and have me bring you fresh vegetables and fruit three times a week all through the summer?” “Why, yes,” stammered Mrs. Davis in a daze, “of course, certainly.” “All right, then,” said Gladys, “I’ll put you down.”
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House; Or, The Magic Garden by Hildegard G. Frey

The crew, meanwhile, having on cork belts, floated, regained the boat, clambered into it by means of the life-lines hung round her sides, cut the cable, and returned to shore in safety.
— from Man on the Ocean: A Book about Boats and Ships by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne