'Who's that?' cried one, and 'Stop there!' shouted the other.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

d Two Affirmations, to make a syllogisme; and Many syllogismes to make a Demonstration; and from the Summe, or Conclusion of a syllogisme, they substract one Proposition, to finde the other.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Again, the Consent of a Subject to Soveraign Power, is contained in these words, "I Authorise, or take upon me, all his actions;" in which there is no restriction at all, of his own former naturall Liberty: For by allowing him to Kill Me, I am not bound to Kill my selfe when he commands me.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

" I did as he directed, and was instantly conscious of a strong tarry smell.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

At the corner of a street the shaft of a lorry shivered the window of the hansom in the shape of a star.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The Merediths came over and stayed to supper and everybody talked and nobody listened.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

In the meantime the military engines with which he had captured Tyre arrived, having been sent for by sea; and be ordered the mound to be constructed quite round the city on all sides, two stades 338 in breadth and 250 feet in height.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

The spondylus consists of a shell, the size and shape of a hollowed out half of a pear, and of a flat, small lid.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Perhaps art is even a necessary correlative of and supplement to science?"
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half-an-hour elapsed
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

He commanded their right hands to be cut off, and sent them so backe to the Cacique of Guachoya, whose men they were.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14 America, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

(b) Annual Report on Joint Interagency Review.-- (1) In general.--Not later than March 31 of each year, the Secretary, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, and the Director of National Intelligence, shall jointly submit a report regarding the implementation of this section and the results of the reviews required under subsection (a) to-- (A) the President; (B) the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and (C) the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Homeland Security, and the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives. (2) Form.--The annual report submitted under paragraph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form to the maximum extent practicable, but may include a classified annex.
— from Homeland Security Act of 2002 Updated Through October 14, 2008 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security

The banana plantations on the south side appeared to be occupied in force, and the object of the enemy was clearly to prevent any going in or coming out, and so to starve the villagers into submission.
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang

All listened in silence, for young Allan's singing was one of the greatest joys in all the world to them; but as they so listened there came of a sudden the sound of a horse's feet, and presently Little John and Will Stutely came forth from the forest path into the open glade, young Richard Partington riding between them upon his milk-white horse.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Come on an' see the show!”
— from Bar-20 Days by Clarence Edward Mulford

I've explained why; and I say, she ought to be married !" A few minutes later, I quitted the cabin, leaving the captain and Mr. Higginson arguing upon the powers of a commander of a ship, the skipper shouting as I opened the door, "I tell you, Mr. Higginson, that the master of a vessel may not only legally marry a couple, but may legally christen their infants, sir; and then legally bury the lot of them, if they should die.
— from A Marriage at Sea by William Clark Russell

Inside the car, on a seat to see what was going on.
— from Lady Luck by Hugh Wiley