Then, a carriage ride succeeded, near the solemn river, stealing away by night, as all things steal away, by night and by day, so quietly yielding to the attraction of the loadstone rock of Eternity; and the nearer they drew to the chamber where Eugene lay, the more they feared that they might find his wanderings done.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The entrance is so narrow as to admit but one vessel at a time, the current swift, and the channel runs so near to a low stony point that the ship's sides appeared almost to touch it.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The old court records showed no tendency for their culture to expand.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

"My dear Harry—if this were the case, we should find traces of our own footsteps, some signs of our passage; and I can really see nothing to indicate our having passed this way."
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Ripton did not say that he had employed his vacation holiday on purpose to use his efforts to induce his dear friend to return to his wife; and finding Richard already on his way, of course Ripton said nothing to him, but affected to be travelling for his pleasure like any cockney.
— from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete by George Meredith

the future time we cannot command, the past time we cannot recall; squander not then the present away.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

What money I made should go to the support of my child: Robert should not think me derelict in every duty.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Young Colonel Roosevelt seemed not to have wrecked civilization, after all, according to the morning Courier-Herald , despite that Democratic paper's colorful prophecies last autumn in the vein of Jeremiah.
— from The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

[512] “Animadvertens sua clementia quod maxime hoc convenerat parliamentum pro bono totius Regni publico et concordiâ Christianæ religionis stabiliendà non tam cito quam propter rei magnitudinem quæ non solum regnum ipsum Angliæ concernit
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III by James Anthony Froude

It not only establishes a very general relation between the physical properties of these bodies and electricity acting by induction through them, but draws both their physical and chemical relations so near together, as to make us hope we shall shortly arrive at the full comprehension of the influence they mutually possess over each other.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

That class called vulgar, canaille, rabble, so numerous there, does not exist here as a class, though our towns have many individuals of it.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress