" In about ten minutes they returned to the house by a circuitous route, entering at the rear.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Slawkenbergius's Tale It was one cool refreshing evening, at the close of a very sultry day, in the latter end of the month of August, when a stranger, mounted upon a dark mule, with a small cloak-bag behind him, containing a few shirts, a pair of shoes, and a crimson-sattin pair of breeches, entered the town of Strasburg.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The corresponding ritual explanations are to be found in books 1–5 and 6–9 respectively of the Çatapatha Brāhmaṇa .
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

“The count,” repeated Eugénie, as though it had not occurred to her to observe him sooner; “the count?—oh, he is so dreadfully pale.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The guests evidently felt a certain respectful embarrassment at the sight of all the sumptuousness of the rooms and at the lavish manner in which they were treated.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

V. By what divine wisdom, then, could Romulus embrace all the benefits that could belong to maritime cities, and at the same time avoid the dangers to which they are exposed, except, as he did, by building his city on the bank of an inexhaustible river, whose equal current discharges itself into the sea by a vast mouth, so that the city could receive all it wanted from the sea, and discharge its superabundant commodities by the same channel?
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

139 S L A W K E N B E R G I U S’s T A L E I T was one cool refreshing evening, at the close of a very sultry day, in the latter end of the month of August, when a stranger, mounted upon a dark mule, with a small cloak-bag behind him, containing a few shirts, a pair of shoes, and a crimson-sattin pair of breeches, entered the town of Strasburg.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

It gives No. 4, the Heaven, practically as in this edition, but puts another cut under it in which the earth is revolving about the sun; and after the statement of Comenius, “ Coelum rotatur, et ambit terram, in medio stantem ” interpolates: “ prout veteres crediderunt; recentiores enim defendunt motum terrae circa solem ”
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

He could remember, even after ten years, how the ekka had driven up to his door and how he, having reached the door before her arrival, would not pay the promised money until the girl's veil had been lifted and he had seen for himself that no trickery had been played upon him and that this was the one of his choice.
— from In Kali's Country: Tales from Sunny India by Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets

Carrots replied enthusiastically, and then, as the lawyer turned away, presumably to attend to his own business, the amateur Good Samaritan led Teddy from the room, closely followed by Teenie, who said, when they were once more on the outside of the building: "It won't do to loaf 'round here.
— from Teddy and Carrots: Two Merchants of Newpaper Row by James Otis

But we had advised her against this, for no conceivable reason except apparently that we wished to go on paying the 16,000 Hanoverians whom we were employing.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

Looking at this poem as an expression of some aspects of the ars poetica , with some passages which I can read even at this mature period of life without blushing for them, it may stand as the most serious representation of my early efforts.
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Although no question can reasonably exist as to the identification of the king who built the palace of Kouyunjik with the Sennacherib of Scripture, it may still be desirable to place before my readers all the corroborative evidence connected with the subject.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

The next steamer, Capitan Reeks ees arrive too late.”
— from Cappy Ricks Retires: But That Doesn't Keep Him from Coming Back Stronger Than Ever by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

Small deviations should not be marked with too much rigour; but whenever a child relates exactly any thing which he has seen, heard, or felt, we should listen with attention and pleasure, and we should not show the least doubt of his veracity.
— from Practical Education, Volume I by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

When, under the advice of Senator Conkling, he appointed Thomas Murphy collector of the port of New York, it was charged in the press that the collector removed employees at the rate of several hundred per day and filled their places with loyal supporters of the organization.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew