He leaned far out of the dressing-room window over the little court below, and saw the first light spread.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

So that, though the image of one point should cause but a small tension of this membrane, another, and another, and another stroke, must in their progress cause a very great one, until it arrives at last to the highest degree; and the whole capacity of the eye, vibrating in all its parts, must approach near to the nature of what causes pain, and consequently must produce an idea of the sublime.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

At last the official came back and said that the rei-hei-shi's people refused to give the men up to me; as an alternative they proposed to obtain a written apology, coupled with a promise to punish the assailants on their reaching Kiôto.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

In twenty minutes we were well across it, with but slight assistance from ourselves, and being carried by a strong though somewhat variable breeze well up the harbour.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

“If death can be a surprise to men who are thinking only of the cravings of their appetites.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

It is true, indeed, that he was not able to enjoy this booty, because, [Pg l] being carried by a sea-tempest to Sicily and being justly slain by his own men, he left his spoils, his kingdom, and his life a prey to Fortune.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

It is the carefully constructed book about sex that sells and is read.
— from The Egregious English by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland

For the men of Wu and the men of Yueh are enemies; yet if they are crossing a river in the same boat and are caught by a storm, they will come to each other's assistance just as the left hand helps the right.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

But as John knew that this affair would be canvassed before a superior tribunal, where the interposition of royal authority in bestowing ecclesiastical benefices was very invidious; where even the cause of suffragan bishops was not so favourable as that of monks; he determined to make the new election entirely unexceptionable: he submitted the affair wholly to the canons of Christ-Church, and, departing from the right claimed by his predecessors, ventured no farther than to inform them privately, that they would do him an acceptable service if they chose John de Gray, Bishop of Norwich, for their primate
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

After several hours, Alessandro Moratini came back and said,— 'The council has been meeting again, and it has been receiving messengers; but that is all I know.
— from The Making of a Saint by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Your Tom was at my house yesterday; and he is going with my girls: they are all just as wild about it as they can be, and say that it is the greatest fun that has been heard of this summer.”
— from Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Change in orders," said the commander briefly, after scanning the piece of paper.
— from The Boy Allies at Jutland; Or, The Greatest Naval Battle of History by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

Constantius died and Honorius, 'credited but a short time before by evil report with criminal desires towards his sister, now turned from love to hatred, and banished the unhappy woman with her children to Byzantium.'
— from A Little Pilgrimage in Italy by Olave M. (Olave Muriel) Potter

"I always said Peter was a fine fellow at bottom," said Canon Birch, anxiously scanning the doctor's frowning face.
— from Peter's Mother by De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs.

Continuing by a street to the left, I came to the depot, and here the ambulances were gathered with their scores of inmates.
— from Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend