The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Much of the daytime of the past month was sulky, with leaden heaviness, fog, interstices of bitter cold, and some insane storms.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

These offerings were dedicated by Amasis; and he was the first of men who conquered Cyprus and subdued it so that it paid him tribute. ————— H2 anchor NOTES TO BOOK II Note 1 ( return )
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

There are so many unsubstantial sorrows which the necessity of our mortal state begets on idleness, that an observer, casting aside sentiment, is sometimes led to question whether there be any real woe, except absolute physical suffering and the loss of closest friends.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I happened to look up as I went by the chaise, and so I see directly it was the youngest Miss Steele; so I took off my hat, and she knew me and called to me, and inquired after you, ma'am, and the young ladies, especially Miss Marianne, and bid me I should give her compliments and Mr. Ferrars's, their best compliments and service, and how sorry they was they had not time to come on and see you, but they was in a great hurry to go forwards, for they was going further down for a little while, but howsever, when they come back, they'd make sure to come and see you."
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Having lain there a while, I then to the Abbey and there called Michell, and so walked in great pain, having new shoes on, as far as Fleete Streete and there got a coach, and so in some little ease home and there drank a great deale of small beer; and so took up my wife and Betty Michell and her husband, and away into the fields, to take the ayre, as far as beyond Hackny, and so back again, in our way drinking a great deale of milke, which I drank to take away, my heartburne, wherewith I have of late been mightily troubled, but all the way home I did break abundance of wind behind, which did presage no good but a great deal of cold gotten.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

One so conspicuous and successful in society as Laura could not be out of the way two days, without remarks being made, and not all of them complimentary.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Yet unknown to him, Sophy, with all her pride, is observing him closely, and she is smiling to herself at the pride of her slave.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Does it proclaim that eleven, eleven, eleven, come across, speak it, satisfy a man, be neat, leave off oxes, shine flies, call spoken shouting call it back call it by little dotted voices and do be sweet, do be sweet, remember the accoutrement.
— from Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein

The Catholic Church appeals to the imagination, as a great fact, wherever she comes; she strikes it: Protestants must find some idea equally captivating as she is, something fascinating, something capable of possessing, engrossing, and overwhelming, if they are to battle with her hopefully: their cause is lost unless they can do this.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

During the whole time of my stay the plague was so master of the city, and showed itself so staringly in every street and every alley, that I can’t now affect to dissociate the two ideas.
— from Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake

It is impossible to believe that such differently dressed beings can be of the same country and station in society; and yet they are all talking and chirping together: and what conversation!
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 by Various

Temple darted into the booth, the conveyor, and slammed it shut.
— from Recruit for Andromeda by Stephen Marlowe

By silence also is a great number of christian men slain; which is on this fashion: although that the father and mother, master and dame, of themselves be well disposed to live according to the law of God, yet they may kill their children and servants in suffering them to do evil before their own faces, and do not use due correction according unto their offences.
— from Sermons on the Card, and Other Discourses by Hugh Latimer

Besides the greatnesse of the figure or image: it was a woonder to thinke how such a weight should bee carryed and set in such a place and so high.
— from Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Francesco Colonna