I believe George was playing billiards with Captain Cannon in Swallow Street at the time when Amelia was asking Captain Dobbin about him; for George was a jolly sociable fellow, and excellent in all games of skill.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

How the Tru-Bru Pot Operates Muller's "art" (the apparatus is described in chapter XXXIV ) consisted in so supplying and supporting the ground coffee in an urn that it is never again subjected to the "decoction" after having been exposed to the air and steam following the first application of the water.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The person, whoever it was, had come in so suddenly and with so little noise, that Mr. Pickwick had had no time to call out, or oppose their entrance.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The evolution of this tendency may be traced through the entire history of the Church in such sects as the Paulicians, Cathari, Bogomiles, and others, who, though they again and again formulated anew the principle of an eternal Dualism, as often revealed some further stage in the progressive advance of the christianised mind towards a normal relation with nature.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

But I did not notice the door from the passage softly and slowly open at that instant and a figure come in, stop short, and begin staring at us in perplexity I glanced, nearly swooned with shame, and rushed back to my room.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Thus Hercules, Castor and Pollux, Æsculapius, and Liber became Gods (I mean Liber 137 the son of Semele, and not him 138 whom our ancestors consecrated in such state and 278 solemnity with Ceres and Libera; the difference in which may be seen in our Mysteries.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

My intention was to enter him as a clerk in some ship, and without letting him know anything of my plan, to convey him some morning on board; by this means his future treatment would depend upon his own conduct.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

How trivial now became the weird riddle that, a little while before, had been clothed in so solemn an awe!
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Both are recommended as caustics in syphilitic, scrofulous, and scorbutic ulcers, cancerous growths, &c.; applied by means of a dossil of lint.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

The supper prepared by the natives consisted of strips of dried beef cut into small squares and boiled with rice and black beans.
— from A Journey in Southeastern Mexico by Henry Howard Harper

For since they had a great fleet and exceedingly large ships, as night came on everything was thrown into confusion by reason of their being crowded into small space, and they were brought into extreme peril.
— from History of the Wars, Books III and IV The Vandalic War by Procopius

If anything happens that makes me think I ought to leave the city I shall send a message to you, but I shall not cross the city boundaries nor relax my watch on this house without your permission.
— from The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White

[146] M. DeLesseps has stated that it cost England £100,000,000 to change its shipping so as to fit it for passage through the Suez Canal, and this expense applies more or less to change of machinery due to invention in every factory.
— from Twentieth Century Socialism: What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly

From the schoolroom he is transplanted into the world to strike roots if he can in stubborn soil and preserve his faith amidst the ice-chills of infidelity.
— from The Young Priest's Keepsake by Michael J. Phelan

“To be innocent, and to allow one’s self to be condemned, is still stranger; and yet there are instances”— The young lawyer spoke in that short, imperious tone which is, so to say, the privilege of his profession, and with such an accent of assurance, that M. de Chandore felt his hopes revive.
— from Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau