With the noiselessness of disembodied spirits we moved stealthily along the deserted streets, but not until we were within sight of the plain beyond the city did I commence to breathe freely.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

That very minute and second, Best Beloved, the smoke of the fire at the back of the Cave came down in clouds from the roof—puff!—because it remembered the bargain she had made with the Cat, and when it had cleared away—lo and behold!—the Cat was sitting quite comfy close to the fire.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

In the wail which Sanang Setzen, the poetical historian of the Mongols, puts, perhaps with some traditional basis, into the mouth of Toghon Temur, the last of the Chinghizide Dynasty in China, when driven from his throne, the changes are rung on the lost glories of his capital Daïtu (see infra, Book II.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

"Henry B. Matthews," he read, "book-keeper with Whysot Whysot and Company, dealers in church ornaments.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

+ capitulod divided into chapters , LL (204 2 ).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

xxx. 15 , the poor man's riches, the rich man's bliss, without thee there can be no happiness: or visited with some loathsome disease, offensive to others, or troublesome to ourselves; as a stinking breath, deformity of our limbs, crookedness, loss of an eye, leg, hand, paleness, leanness, redness, baldness, loss or want of hair, &c., hic ubi fluere caepit, diros ictus cordi infert , saith
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I feel this tediousness will never do— 'T is being too epic, and I must cut down (In copying) this long canto into two; They 'll never find it out, unless I own
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

“We could defend it,’, cried Herbert.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

It consisted of all kinds of crooked characters disposed in columns, and had evidently been prepared by some person who had before him at the time a book containing various alphabets.
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

The first was chronicled thus:— A curious custom takes place here on certain days in College Dining Hall, called “Passing the Green Stuff.”
— from Floreat Etona: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton College by Ralph Nevill

The sword has done what the sword could do; it can do no more.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 by Various

Naturally, if the resultant substance is formed of elements having a considerable degree of affinity, then the complete decomposition is considerably facilitated.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

When the brigade came down, I cried me heart out because I was not let go on with them.
— from Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Fannie A. Beers