The next day, when M. d’Antoine called, I followed exactly the instructions she had given me, and for six mortal hours I remained alone, pretending to write.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

As the corporal thought there was nothing in the world so well worth shewing as the glorious works which he and my uncle Toby had made, Trim courteously and gallantly took her by the hand, and led her in: this was not done so privately, but that the foul-mouth’d trumpet of Fame carried it from ear to ear, till at length it reach’d my father’s, with 79 this untoward circumstance along with it, that my uncle Toby ’s curious draw-bridge, constructed and painted after the Dutch fashion, and which went quite across the ditch—was broke down, and somehow or other crushed all to pieces that very night.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

So little, yet its courage carried it from end to end of the earth, till there was no place where it did not go.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

In that case the chest is fully expanded, the glottis is closed and the muscles of expiration are contracted.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I then finally resolved on my future course, which was to leave Hood to be encountered by General Thomas, while I should carry into full effect the long-contemplated project of marching for the sea-coast, and thence to operate toward Richmond.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

This will become still clearer, if we add the consideration—(equally important though less obvious)—that the rustic, from the more imperfect development of his faculties, and from the lower state of their cultivation, aims almost solely to convey insulated facts, either those of his scanty experience or his traditional belief; while the educated man chiefly seeks to discover and express those connections of things, or those relative bearings of fact to fact, from which some more or less general law is deducible.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A detailed examination of his explanations, as well as those of Yāska, has shown that there is in the Rigveda a large number of the most difficult words, about the proper sense of which neither scholar had any certain information from either tradition or etymology.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

For to us who stand on the boundary line between two different forms of existence, the Hellenic prototype retains the immeasurable value, that therein all these transitions and struggles are imprinted in a classically instructive form: except that we, as it were, experience analogically in reverse order the chief epochs of the Hellenic genius, and seem now, for instance, to pass backwards from the Alexandrine age to the period of tragedy.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

As the corporal thought there was nothing in the world so well worth shewing as the glorious works which he and my uncle Toby had made, Trim courteously and gallantly took her by the hand, and led her in: this was not done so privately, but that the foul-mouth'd trumpet of Fame carried it from ear to ear, till at length it reach'd my father's, with this untoward circumstance along with it, that my uncle Toby's curious draw-bridge, constructed and painted after the Dutch fashion, and which went quite across the ditch—was broke down, and somehow or other crushed all to pieces that very night.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The next difficulty was with France, and there the Senate blocked advance, but England assumed the task, and, owing to political changes in France, effected the object--a combination which, as late as 1901, had been visionary.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

England's treatment of her American subjects was thoroughly selfish; but that her conduct towards them was a wonder of tyranny, will not now be seriously asserted; on the contrary, she stood decidedly above the general European standard in such matters, and certainly [Pg 5] treated her colonies far better than France and Spain did theirs; and she herself had undoubted grounds for complaint in, for example, the readiness of the Americans to claim military help in time of danger, together with their frank reluctance to pay for it.
— from Gouverneur Morris by Theodore Roosevelt

I. of Gillman's Coleridge is for ever to stand unpropped by Vol.
— from Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey

She represented the higher grade of life; and carried it far enough to bring to birth many of the great arts as well as the humbler ones, especially the invaluable art of language.
— from The home: its work and influence by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The water in this chamber becomes heated above the boiling point, and, expanding, forces the water from the chamber into the tube until the chamber is finally emptied to the level of the mouth of the tube.
— from The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive by Hiram Martin Chittenden

This prevents the free ends of rims from curving inward far enough to carry the weight the proper distance toward the center of balance.
— from Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. (Walter John) Kleinlein

I carried into full effect then the divorce of the Government and the banks, against a terrible opposition from them and the great Whig party.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

I have vivid recollections of my mother telling me about it when I was a little boy, and I remember that every time I heard the shutters in the room where we sat rattle, and the wind moan and sigh in the chimney, I fully expected to hear terrible shrieks ring out, and to see some white and ghastly face pressed against the window-panes, peering in at me.
— from The Banshee by Elliott O'Donnell