H2 anchor CHAPTER XIV Soon after this the children came in to say good night.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In that happy bygone time, I was taught to keep my hair tidy at all hours of the day and night, and to fold up every article of my clothing carefully, in the same order, on the same chair, in the same place at the foot of the bed, before retiring to rest.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

A cricket chirruped in the stove, and there was a faint humming from the burner of the lamp.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He might dissect, anatomise, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It was in vain that our guide assured him that a fall of stones was a common chance in the spring-time at that spot.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The race, in its first institution, was a simple contest of two chariots, whose drivers were distinguished by white and red liveries: two additional colors, a light green , and a cærulean blue , were afterwards introduced; and as the races were repeated twenty-five times, one hundred chariots contributed in the same day to the pomp of the circus.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The primitive notions of all races were contained in it, however, and they gathered in the second and third centuries a certain consistency in the system of the Ophites.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Cossura (the island Pantellaria) is nowhere else spelt Corsura; Cossuros is the spelling observed immediately below.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The abundance, the solidity, and the splendour of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The Government, after yielding to force what it had repeatedly refused to friendly representations, made a clumsy compromise in their settlement.
— from The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Carlyle courteously invited the stranger to a chair, remaining standing himself.
— from East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

Little columns of blue smoke ascended vertically and steadily from the caravan chimneys into the still air; there was the confused noise of many people talking and shouting; the smell of trodden orange peel, frizzling bacon, and wild beasts; the thud of horses' feet on the soft turf; and then, suddenly, the sound of a man crying out: "Go easy, damn your eyes! . . .
— from The Gland Stealers by Bertram Gayton

We stood in a small closet, whose tall, slender windows overlooked the courtyard, and from the table, on which there was a wealth of parchments, rose a very courtly gentleman to receive us out of a gilded chair, the arms of which were curiously carved into the shape of serpents' heads.
— from The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina, in the state of Piacenza by Rafael Sabatini

He seized both my hands and squeezed them hard; he would have cut capers in the street, if I had not prevented him.
— from Frédérique, vol. 2 by Paul de Kock

That notwithstanding of the evils and inconveniences which follow upon certain ceremonies in the superstitious abuse of them by others, yet if, in our practice, they have a necessary or expedient [pg 1-051] use, then (after the example of the apostles) we may well conform unto them.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie