When order was a little restored, and society and the minds of people became more composed, we see commerce recovering its position; and France was, perhaps, the first country in Europe in which this happy change took place.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

One night a thunder-storm broke; a sort of hurricane shook us in our beds: the Catholics rose in panic and prayed to their saints.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

"A week after my friend disappeared," continued Robert, "I posted an advertisement to the Sydney and Melbourne papers, calling upon him if he was in either city when the advertisement appeared, to write and tell me of his whereabouts, and also calling on any one who had met him, either in the colonies or on the voyage out, to give me any information respecting him.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

I am only deterred by the compulsory reserve I practice as to my name from making a very singular request of you.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The changes of this theme are continually rung in picture and story, in newspaper heading and moving-picture, in sermon and school book, until, of course, the King can do no wrong,—a White Man is always right and a Black Man has no rights which a white man is bound to respect.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Everything had been admirably thought out as is usual in dispositions, and as is always the case, not a single column reached its place at the appointed time.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

22 They all crowded round it panting and asking, "But who has won?"
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

He began to question me arrogantly, but modified his tone when I asserted that I was an American citizen, resident in Petersburg as representative of an English newspaper; and reminded him that, if he dared to detain me, he would have to reckon with both the American and English authorities.
— from The Red Symbol by John Ironside

[75] Daphne had come in, in her green cloak, doublet and hose, and little green cap, Romer in paint and powder, patches and lace ruffles, sword and snuffbox.
— from The Limit by Ada Leverson

It is therefore free from the consciously realized inconsistencies present at least in some versions of the story of Lancelot and Guinevere.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

It would not be true to say that there was no dishonesty, but it was comparatively rare, invariably petty, and much less formidable than, I believe, it is necessary to guard against in other mints in other countries.
— from India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

But apart from the height and boldness of these granite cliffs, rising in places almost sheer to a height of more than seven hundred feet, with outlying reefs and insular rocks bristling black and jagged through the foaming waters, with gully, creek, and cave, worn by the action of rain and sea, there is a further wildness given to the island by a great series of clefts or fissures, running for a considerable distance in a line irregularly parallel to the cliff, sometimes from ten to twenty feet across, and as much as eighty feet deep, where they can be measured; at other places too narrow for sounding, but seeming to strike right down into the bowels of the earth.
— from Lynton and Lynmouth: A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland by John Presland

Down still another pair to the kitchen, whose savory odors already greeted her nostrils; no parsimony there, with its turkeys and chickens roasting, its pies and puddings making, its custards and jellies quivering in costly cut glasses—no parsimony there.
— from Rose Clark by Fanny Fern

He locked a capacious reel into place, and, drawing a thin line through agate guides, attached a glistening steel leader and chained hook.
— from Wild Oranges by Joseph Hergesheimer

The Lutheran confessional reaction in Prussia afforded stimulus to those who had thus stood apart.
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz