The man on horseback, cast down at the anger of the great man, remained stationary, with his hat off, and the rein loose by the foremost waggon; he was silent, and seemed unable to grasp that the day had begun so badly for him.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

A quadrille may be very properly described as a conversation dance, as there are long pauses between the figures, when the dancers must have a fund of small talk ready for their partners.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

As, however, she could not sleep, and discovered that Sue and Jude were still sitting up—it being in fact only ten o'clock—she dressed herself again and came down, and they all sat by the fire till a late hour—Father Time included; though, as he never spoke, they were hardly conscious of him.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

In the evening, Emily had passed some melancholy hours with Madame Montoni, and was retiring to rest, when she was alarmed by a strange and loud knocking at her chamber door, and then a heavy weight fell against it, that almost burst it open.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

If A is subsequently found to be at rest, this rest cannot be the result of A's previous motion, for such motion can only have led to continued motion; the state of rest therefore must have resulted from something, which was not in A, namely, from an external cause determining A to a state of rest.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Here, my honest Rowley, here, get me this changed directly, and take a hundred pounds of it immediately to old Stanley.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Scorned by which tribute the Ciconian dames, Amid their awful Bacchanalian rites And midnight revellings, tore him limb from limb, And strewed his fragments over the wide fields.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

The aortic arch ranges, not alone transversely, but also from before backward, and to the left side of the dorsal spine; and consequently, as the innominate artery, A, Plate 9, springs from the first or fore part of the aorta, while the left carotid and subclavian arteries arise from the second and deeper part of its arch, the vessels of both sides rising into the neck perpendicularly from the root in the thorax, will still, in the cervical region, manifest a considerable difference as to antero-posterior depth.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

It was as God's Representative Christ died as truly as He died as man's Representative.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the Corinthians by Marcus Dods

I myself take great delight in The gay plumage of the parrots, And the pink and scarlet corals; Dream at times also of lofty Graceful palm-groves, lonely log-huts, Cocoa-nuts, gigantic flowers, And of mischievous wild monkeys.
— from The Trumpeter of Säkkingen: A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

"For these gods," saith he, "who know all things and can do all things, are so friendly and loving to me that, because they take care of me, I never escape them either by night or by day, wherever I go or whatever I am about.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Her biographer remarks, that great as was her joy to see once more almost the only living being upon whom she poured some of that wealth of affection with which her heart never ceased to overflow, yet it was on the disappointments and shortcomings of those few days, those precious days, that she chiefly dwelt; and the abrupt termination of her nephew's visit filled her with the deepest sorrow.
— from The Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers Sir William Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Caroline Herschel by Anonymous

A very mighty bow it was, shooting arrows so as none other could do, and the arrows were sure dealers of death, for they had been dipped in the blood of the great dragon of Lerna, and the wounds which they made no physician might heal.
— from Stories of the Old World by Alfred John Church

But a standing army, upon which all revolutionary rulers can depend, and that always will continue their faithful support, unique in its sort and composition, exists in the bosom as well as in the extremities of this country.
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete by Lewis Goldsmith

And two of us at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

That spring my father and mother came down, and that autumn I left Arrowfield and went to an engineering school for four years, after which I went out with a celebrated engineer who was going to build some iron railway bridges over one of the great Indian rivers.
— from Patience Wins: War in the Works by George Manville Fenn