“He spake ... and attempted to clasp the right hand of Fortuna, But ruptured the crust of the earth, deeply cloven, asunder.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

It would have been difficult to find a happier child than I was as I lay in my crib at the close of that eventful day and lived over the joys it had brought me, and for the first time longed for a new day to come.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The proposed expedition being one of paramount importance, Mrs Jarley adjusted Nell’s bonnet with her own hands, and declaring that she certainly did look very pretty, and reflected credit on the establishment, dismissed her with many commendations, and certain needful directions as to the turnings on the right which she was to take, and the turnings on the left which she was to avoid.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Then the grave Secretary gave his unnatural smile, and Syme knew that this boisterous breakfast party was the secret conclave of the European Dynamiters.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

If the last, it affords a strong corroboration of the extreme difficulty of the thing.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

A man who joined his regiment at twenty and within a week challenged the most imperious and presumptuous coxcomb of a commanding officer that ever drew the breath of life through a tight waist—and got broke for it—is not the man to be walked over by all the Sir Lucifers, dead or alive, locked or unlocked.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed copier of the “Encyclopædia” down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

And when the judge, in the course of that examination which was reported at length in the columns of the ‘Echo de France,’ when the judge sought to resume his investigation, Arsène Lupin exclaimed, with an assumed air of lassitude: “Mon Dieu, Mon Dieu, what’s the use!
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

It is true that taxes, levied by consent of the estate, do abate men’s courage less; as it hath been seen notably in the excises of the Low Countries, and, in some degree, in the subsidies 332 of England; for, you must note, that we speak now of the heart, and not of the purse; so that, although the same tribute and tax, laid by consent or by imposing, be all one to the purse, yet it works diversely upon the courage.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

When young the pileus is incrusted with the veil or with white mealy-floccose soft, hairy down, which is crowded on the even disk and scaly towards the thin pitted-furrowed margin; and as this separates the pileus is naked.
— from Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc. by Charles McIlvaine

Napoleon at St. Helena; Or, Interesting Anecdotes and Remarkable Conversations of the Emperor during the Five and a Half Years of his Captivity.
— from Vagabond Life in Mexico by Gabriel Ferry

It is characteristic of the earlier days of agitation for the removal of wrongs affecting any class, that the questions involved appear to be simple, and easily repeated formulas ample to secure desired rights.
— from Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Helen Campbell

It was the camp of the Eleventh Division.
— from Ian Hamilton's March by Winston Churchill

Original histories ; i.e., works written by contemporaries of the events described, who share in the spirit of the times, and may have personally taken part in the transactions.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

" "Why did you cry out this evening, down below in the salons—'The king's service!
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

But he had exhibited a new phase of character on this eventful day, and I trembled as I unlocked the drawer.
— from Desk and Debit; or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk by Oliver Optic

Of all the English Brethren he did the most to extend the cause of the Moravian Church in the United Kingdom, and no fewer than fifteen congregations owed their existence, directly or indirectly, to his efforts; and yet, despite his shining gifts, he was never promoted to any position of special responsibility or honour.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

She then looked into her husband's face, after which she turned her eyes upon the countenances of the early dead who lay before her, and going over to them, stooped and looked closely into their still but composed faces, She then put her hand upon her daughter's forehead, touched her lips with her fingers, carried her hand down along her arm, and felt the pale features of the baby with a look of apparent wonder; and whilst she did this, the old man left the room and passed into the kitchen.
— from The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

" The girls viewed her with no great favor, but the majority of the women, especially those in the galleries, sustained the verdict of the men; and the Leader, in the course of the evening, descended and introduced herself, claimed relationship, and graciously intimated that if Isabel cared to join the cotillon clubs and the skating-rink— The skating-rink—an exclusive yet hospitable wing would be lifted.
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton