Later on he could not think where he had brought it, but as by chance he got drunk again, he fetched the packet, and brought it to its proper destination.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Cyriaca, and by corruption Hieracium, Gerace, (Dissert.
— 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

He hinted the duty of governments to support men of science, and expressed his fear, that if he met no more encouragement, he should be compelled to carry his great discovery to some other land more willing to appreciate him.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

“A CRACK article,” however first-rate, would, as far as speech is concerned, have greatly displeased Dr. Johnson and Mr. Walker—yet both CRACK , in the sense of excellent, and CRACK UP , to boast or praise, were not considered vulgarisms in the time of Henry VIII.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

La hablé del amor, del mundo, I spoke to her of love, of the world de la corte y los placeres, of pleasures, the court, how gallant de cuánto con las mujeres you are, how prodigious a talent erais pródigo y galán.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Watching it, she saw a gathering and deepening anxiety there, which caused her great disquiet.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

My circumstances, however, grew daily easier.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The crowd had gradually dispersed in their immediate vicinity, and they were nearly alone.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Rodolph was very plainly dressed, and his appearance by no means improved by the dust and dirt his clothes had gathered during his stay in M. Pipelet's Cabinet of Melodrama.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue

An unusual sense of expectancy pervaded the young women's ward; Mrs. Cleaver had gone down "to appear before the Committee," and though the ways of committees are slow, and pauper-time worthless, it was felt that her ordeal was being unduly protracted.
— from Workhouse Characters, and other sketches of the life of the poor. by Margaret Wynne Nevinson

Come here, Geoffrey; do.
— from Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

The captain had gone down there by one of these coulées .
— from Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant

Every lawyer employed to any extent in criminal practice knows that in an important case his greatest danger is public opinion.
— from Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow

She stood as though her soul had gone from her and entered the body of the sailor who was swimming strong and straight for the point where Cecil had gone down.
— from Shadows of Flames: A Novel by Amélie Rives

More than an hour elapsed before Don Luis again approached the litter, during which period the young lady unconsciously allowed a number of new sensations, which had never before been known to her, to take possession of her heart; and she welcomed his return with a smile whose sweetness might have softened the bosom of a stoic,—and certainly her gallant deliverer was not one.
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

At that moment a stray sunbeam, the first of a murky morning, touched his white hair as with a crown of brightness, then faded and the clouded heavens grew dark.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Most of the apartments were large and gloomy, and hung with arras of so great an age, that the colors had grown dim, and the thread in many places appeared to be dropping into powder.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. II, No. X., March 1851 by Various