"You men can bear anything," replied the lady.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Not a tchetvertak per copyist, but a rouble, is the fee.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

We set forth accordingly by this itinerary; and for the best part of three nights travelled on eerie mountains and among the well-heads of wild rivers; often buried in mist, almost continually blown and rained upon, and not once cheered by any glimpse of sunshine.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

The stout lady occasionally turned her head squarely around and surveyed Anne through her eyeglasses until Anne, acutely sensitive of being so scrutinized, felt that she must scream aloud; and the white-lace girl kept talking audibly to her next neighbor about the “country bumpkins” and “rustic belles” in the audience, languidly anticipating “such fun” from the displays of local talent on the program.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I wish and hope to end the trial in my Chamberlain's court by a reconciliation; hitherto the only difficulty has been over the improvements.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

She sank deeper than the spade of the sexton could penetrate, till the churchyard became a roof above her.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

His eyes were heavy with tears, and glittering with colors like dewdrops; and there came by a roebuck, and said, 'What ailest thee, that thou weepest blue and red tears?'
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The same superstition and appliance existed in England.]—with which this age of ours is so occupied, that there is almost no other talk, are not mere voluntary impressions of apprehension and fear; for I know, by experience, in the case of a particular friend of mine, one for whom I can be as responsible as for myself, and a man that cannot possibly fall under any manner of suspicion of insufficiency, and as little of being enchanted, who having heard a companion of his make a relation of an unusual frigidity that surprised him at a very unseasonable time; being afterwards himself engaged upon the same account, the horror of the former story on a sudden so strangely possessed his imagination, that he ran the same fortune the other had done; and from that time forward, the scurvy remembrance of his disaster running in his mind and tyrannising over him, he was subject to relapse into the same misfortune.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I'm glad you have decided to come back and restore order, for doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the strength of every man in the Emerald City."
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

This last exclamation was caused by another rush of the fish.
— from The Eagle Cliff by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

When they came to the surface again ill luck on the part of the fish had brought it into the shallows caused by a ridge of rocks, and the man hauled his prize ashore, frankly acknowledging that the happy chance of the rocks and not his own wits and strength had given the victory into his hands.
— from Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

—A report was received to the effect that the mouth of a cave on the Stewart County line, about 18 miles west of Clarksville, had been closed by a rock wall, and earth piled against the outside of the wall; also, that tool marks are quite distinct in a chamber which is plainly of artificial origin.
— from Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke

The scene is laid at Amsterdam, which is captured by a ruse like that of the Greeks at Troy.
— from The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Old Miss was well; Serena was well; Captain Bob himself had had rheumatism, but he was better.—The Colonel didn't look badly; it was only that he didn't seem to want to get out of bed, and that every little while he set the clock back and rambled on about things and people—"It's creepy to hear him," said Captain Bob.
— from Hagar by Mary Johnston

The two castles, black and ruinous as the rocks about them, were still distinguishable from these by something more insecure and fantastic in the outline, something that the last storm had left imminent and the next would demolish entirely.
— from Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson Selected and Edited With an Introduction and Notes by William Lyon Phelps by Robert Louis Stevenson

The coat-of-arms of the renowned Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus, bears a raven with a golden ring in its beak.
— from Birds useful and birds harmful by Ottó Herman

[511] For curtains, bavins, and reeds, and sulphur to salt them, as artificers call it; sulphur 240 lbs.
— from A System of Pyrotechny Comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. by James Cutbush

The Intuition—the faculty which apprehends what we may call the spirit of Concrete things, which goes to conclusions by a rapid process that overleaps intermediate steps, which is our guide in the numerous decisions that we are called to make in our every-day life, and which perceives, in a somewhat vague and indefinite manner—becomes our only guide in this Realm of the Inexact.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Public officials were chosen by a ring in Boston in the year of our Lord 1763 before they were "chosen by the town" and the Revolution was hatched in a rum-shop , while those upon whom history has placed the seal of greatness and statesmanship filled themselves with "flip" in an atmosphere dense with tobacco smoke as they plotted and planned the momentous events of the time!"
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark