Part of the left arm (here his voice dropped so as to be heard with difficulty,) and all the right, are restorations; and in the coquetry of that right arm lies, I think, the quintessence of all affectation.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The Squar brought me a large and well flavoured Goose berry of a rich Crimsin Colour, and deep purple berry of the large Cherry of the Current Speces which is common on this river as low as the Mandans, the engagees Call it the Indian Current.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

His father had removed his mother from Knowlesbury, and had lived with her at a cottage on the river, a little distance from our village.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

As the troops advanced north from Savannah, the destruction of the railroads in South Carolina and the southern part of North Carolina, further cut off their resources and left the armies still in Virginia and North Carolina dependent for supplies upon a very small area of country, already very much exhausted of food and forage.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The woman with the scarlet sunshade came over the road, a lilt in her walk, a little shadow attending her.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

“Ha!” said he thoughtfully, “the Venus—the beautiful Venus?—the Venus of the Medici?—she of the diminutive head and the gilded hair? Part of the left arm (here his voice dropped so as to be heard with difficulty,) and all the right, are restorations; and in the coquetry of that right arm lies, I think, the quintessence of all affectation.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

MRS PETERS: ( who has gone to a small table in the left rear corner of the room, and lifted one end of a towel that covers a pan )
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

Among them we must first speak of Susan B. Anthony, one of the most sensible and worthy citizens of this republic, a lady of warm and tender heart but indomitable purpose and energy, and a resident of whom Rochester may well be proud.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The princes were opposite to each other in the centre; and the Beglerbegs, or generals of Anatolia and Romania, commanded on the right and left, against the adverse divisions of the despot and Huniades.
— 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

'Not in the present generation, but in the next, perhaps, Yes.' Now let the earthborn men go forth under the command of their rulers, and look about and pitch their camp in a high place, which will be safe against enemies from without, and likewise against insurrections from within.
— from The Republic by Plato

The country on the right and left consists of swampy meadows and wood-land, every where intersected by ditches and muddy streams.
— from Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and near Leipzig Immediately Before, During, and Subsequent to, the Sanguinary Series of Engagements Between the Allied Armies of the French, from the 14th to the 19th October, 1813 by Frederic Shoberl

Then four of our fellows sprang into the chains, handed the little creature over the rail and let him drop in-boards.
— from An Ocean Tragedy by William Clark Russell

In descending the river yesterday, the squaw brought in a large well-flavoured gooseberry, of a rich crimson colour; and a deep purple berry of [402] a species of currant, common on this river as low as the Mandans, and called by the engagees, the Indian currant.
— from History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. II To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by William Clark

[Pg 14] commanded on the right and left by the two forts known as the Petit and the Grand Jonas.
— from The Woman of Mystery by Maurice Leblanc

The business takes this bad issue, in our Monk's own words faithfully rendered: ————— *See Lyttelton's Henry II., ii: 384. ————— 'And it came to pass, while Robert de Montfort thundered on him manfully ( viriliter intonasset ) with hard and frequent strokes, and a valiant beginning promised the fruit of victory, Henry of Essex, rather giving way, glanced round on all sides; and lo, at the rim of the horizon, on the confines of the River and land, he discerned the glorious King and Martyr Edmund, in shining armour, and as if hovering in the air; looking towards him with severe countenance, nodding his head with a mien and motion of austere anger.
— from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle

Steele with his company on the right, and Lieut.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

An Early Railroad Train in England Stephenson's son, Robert, assisted him in the construction of the "Rocket" and later attained considerable reputation as an engineer.
— from Great Inventions and Discoveries by Willis Duff Piercy

She stood in the centre of the road and listened to the sound as it drew nearer and nearer, till suddenly the headlights came down out of the sky and pierced her—she stood washed in light, and the car stopped.
— from The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold

Most nations possess a knowledge of these commandments, and make them the commandments of their religion, and live according to them because God so wills and has commanded; and through this they have communication with heaven and conjunction with God, consequently they are saved.
— from Spiritual Life and the Word of God by Emanuel Swedenborg