For a parallel we must go back to the Age of Pericles in Athens, or of Augustus in Rome, or go forward a little to the magnificent court of Louis XIV, when Corneille, Racine, and Molière brought the drama in France to the point where Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson had left it in England half a century earlier.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

‘The lamplighter has eighteenpence a week to pull the night-bell for ten minutes every time he comes round; and my boy always rushes into the church just before the psalms, when the people have got nothing to do but look about ‘em, and calls me out, with horror and dismay depicted on his countenance.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Parallelisms of, with Chinese religious and mythological beliefs, 79 n. “ Biographies of the Gods .”
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Go, tell the Count Rousillon and my brother We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

At intervals there were visible in it wide, yawning, but momentary rents, and from out these rents, within which was a chaos of flitting and indistinct images, there came rushing and mighty, but soundless winds, tearing up the enkindled ocean in their course.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Several remarkable parallelisms of Chinese religious and mythological beliefs with those recorded in the Hebrew scriptures may also be briefly noted.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

[Footnote 3: Of these, more than 3,000 were doolie-bearers, and nearly 8,000 were saices of Native Cavalry regiments, and men belonging to the Transport and other Departments.]
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl

About the closing scene of the last struggle, Cousin Cæsar received a musket ball in the right leg, and fell among the wounded and dying.
— from Pen Pictures, of Eventful Scenes and Struggles of Life by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Craig

The male is considerably reduced, and may be readily distinguished from his partner by the white collar of the throat, and by his larger size.
— from Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States Illustrated by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Gentry

Besides these there are several others of more or less definite composition, which are all closely related, and may be derived from a complex glucoside by successive removals of hydrogen in the form of water.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

These varieties are of very large growth, and are only to be cultivated when there is considerable room, and must be supported on sticks placed in the ground for that purpose.
— from The Botanist's Companion, Volume II Or an Introduction to the Knowledge of Practical Botany, and the Uses of Plants. Either Growing Wild in Great Britain, or Cultivated for the Puroses of Agriculture, Medicine, Rural Oeconomy, or the Arts by William Salisbury

My Hobby is Collecting Rocks and Minerals, by David E. Jensen.
— from Texas Rocks and Minerals: An Amateur's Guide by Roselle M. Girard

Father Bear came running and Mother Bear came running!
— from Adventures of Sonny Bear by Frances Margaret Fox