"This has caused him, Esther—" "Caused whom, my dear?"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

As She walked with a listless air up and down the chamber, the Door caught her eye conducting to that which had been her Mother's.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

As then they had no remedy for their evil, they sent messengers to Crete, to find out whether any of the Cretans or of the sojourners in Crete had ever come to Libya.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

As a man, closing his eyes, can visualize a dazzling white light or a faint blue haze, so causal beings by thought alone are able to see, hear, feel, taste, and touch; they create anything, or dissolve it, by the power of cosmic mind.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

His pale face was calm, his eyes closed, and they could see his regular breathing.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Cleopatra has Egypt confirmed to her by J. Caesar, 24; intrigues with him, 34; has a son by him, ib.; flies with Mark Antony, 81; kills herself, 82; her children by Antony, ib. and 81. Coins of Caligula, 37; of Vespasian, 467. Cologne, founded by Agrippina, 434 and note.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Chris led the way in, to find the cell he entered cut out and built-up just the same as those which they had seen; but the floor was encumbered deeply with the dust of ages, and on stirring some of it with his foot the boy drew back hurriedly and looked strangely at his father.
— from The Peril Finders by George Manville Fenn

“We can hear ’em coming either way; but I don’t think they’ll get up here.”
— from The Coyote A Western Story by James Roberts

Miss A. I. Carruthers Leesburg Mrs. E. W. Clark Leesburg Allen S. Clarke Paeonian Springs Mrs. Allen S. Clarke Paeonian Springs Tom Clarkson Leesburg Mrs. Tom Clarkson Leesburg C. H. English Cole Leesburg Mrs. C. A. English Cole Leesburg Miss Maria H. Copeland Round Hill Mrs. Chester Cooksey
— from The Bulletin of the Loudoun County Historical Society, Volume IV, 1965 by Various

Green River, only a few hundred yards from the entrance of the cave, has evidently cut out the channel through which it runs.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Common hatred engendered common love; common sufferings led on to a common effort.
— from The Liberation of Italy, 1815-1870 by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

In writing them the worthy general evidently forgot that original documents existed, or that statements concerning historical events can often be checked.
— from The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White

For some months he labored to call them to anti-slavery grounds, but failing, he declared for a division and created his eighth church, now Bethel church, near Collinsville, on strictly anti-slavery grounds; and this event opened the anti-slavery contest in 1809 which finally in 1818 led to the election of an anti-slavery Convention which gave Illinois a free state constitution.
— from The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818 by Willard C. (Willard Carey) MacNaul

Ioist , v. to put out cattle to graze at a fixed rate, to agist cattle, HD, EDS (C. vi); jyst , EDS (C. xxvi); ioyst , pp. , lodged (of cattle), S2.—OF. gister , to lodge, from giste , a place to lie in, a pp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The poet, who till now had clung to the conviction that there can be no happy fate, that all our destinies are guided by unlucky stars, now on the contrary persuades us to consider how even calamity may be refined in the medium of wisdom in such fashion as to become an asset of life, and warns us against recoiling in spirit from any reverse of our fortunes.
— from Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller