I conducted him to my apartment, where, in presence of Strap, whom I introduced to him as one of my best friends, he gave me to understand, that he was just arrived from the Coast Of Guinea, after having made a pretty successful voyage, in which he had acted as mate, until the ship was attacked by a French privateer, that the captain being killed during the engagement, he had taken the command, and was so fortunate as to sink the enemy; after which exploit he fell in with a merchant ship from Martinico, laden with sugar, indigo and some silver and by virtue of his letter of marque, attacked, took, and carried her safe into Kinsale in Ireland, where she was condemned as a lawful prize; by which means he had not only got a pretty sum of money, but also acquired the favour of his owners, who had already conferred upon him the command of a large ship, mounted with twenty nine-pounders, ready to sail upon a very advantageous voyage, which he was not at liberty to discover.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Talk as you like, a typical Rocky Mountain cañon, or a limitless sea-like stretch of the great Kansas or Colorado plains, under favoring circumstances, tallies, perhaps expresses, certainly awakes, those grandest and subtlest element-emotions in the human soul, that all the marble temples and sculptures from Phidias to Thorwaldsen—all paintings, poems, reminiscences, or even music, probably never can.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

‘I have dry clothes, or at least such as will serve my turn well, in my bundle,’ replied Nicholas.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I then found myself in the centre of a large square surrounded by ramparts, and the access to which is by two gates, one opening on the market-place, and the other on the country.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

Two wild men, each à cheval on a lion, support the escutcheons of Gerard D'Harchies (1476) and of Nicole de Giresme (1464).
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The [959] skin covers the rest, and hath cuticulum , or a little skin tinder it.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The submission of the people invited the Barbarian to assume the character of a lawful sovereign, and the helpless exarch was confined to the office of announcing to the emperor Justin the rapid and irretrievable loss of his provinces and cities.
— 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

their dress consists of a long shirt which reaches to the middle of thye, long legings which reach as high as the waist, mockersons, and robes.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

[11] On the crown there is the crest of a lion sejant guardant gules, imperially crowned or, holding in his paw a sword upright; the tail is coué or placed between the hind-legs of the lion, but it then rises up and flourishes high above his back in a sufficiently defiant fashion.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Later on that night, Mrs. Brent, who was but half-asleep, became suddenly awake and spoke to her husband: 'Geoffrey, was not that the click of a lock somewhere below our window?'
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

"The bonds of love unite us, it is true, and they are the only ones which establish the union between man and woman in private life; but can one always live shut up in a castle, or in a miserable cabin?
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

at, 71; Church of Ste. Gudule, 26 [Pg 699] Burchard, 17, 18, 19 Burgundian Library, 188 Burgundy, Charles, Duke of, 26 Burgundy, House of, 95, 187, 189; in the fifteenth century, 296; hated by the Liégeois, 297 Burnet, Bishop, 70 Butler, Mr. J., 69, 70 Caen, 260 Caine, Mr. Hall, 135 'Cairless,' Mr., 67 Caisse de Religion, 211 Cambrai, 176 Camolet, Jean, 328 Campo Formio, 264 Capucins, Chapel of, at Furnes, 114 Carmelites, Church of, at Liége, sacked, 349 Carnot, 224, 265 Carthusian Monastery at Ghent, 167 Casa Negra, 77 Catalani, 231 Cathedral of Antwerp, 26 Cathedral of St. Martin at Ypres, 122 Cathedral of St. Sauveur at Bruges, 26, 33, 76 Catherine of Braganza, 23 Catholics unpopular at Liége, 336 Celestine III., 155 Chabot, 220 Chapel of the Capucins at Furnes, 114 Chapelle du Saint-Sang (St. Basil's) at Bruges, 28, 31, 33, 76 Charlemagne, 11, 281 Charleroi, 228, 232 Charles II. of England at Bruges, 65 et seq.
— from Belgium by George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond

Throw your knowledge into compositions of a less startling, less aspiring character.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

If there be such a work, and an associative effort be necessary, will not the Holy Spirit produce in souls, certain ones at least, such a vocation?
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

She was conscious of a little shiver, that meant, she knew not what, but kept her from yielding when he would press her again into his arms.
— from The Fate of Felix Brand by Florence Finch Kelly

This was the indestructible impression produced, and it is useless to tell me that he may have been striving to conceal some crime, or at least some base and worldly point of view.
— from Rustic Sounds, and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Darwin, Francis, Sir

It makes much of the change of a low salt water animal into its fresh water form, and passes over the immutability of all the great species.
— from The Other Side of Evolution: Its Effects and Fallacy by Alexander Patterson

when, not wishing to exhaust his horse, he decided to take his chance on a long shot.
— from With Sully into the Sioux Land by Joseph Mills Hanson

This placed independent carriers at a great disadvantage and made in itself competition on a large scale impossible.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee