Of course there are painful deaths, but I do not believe such is at all the general rule.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The next step was to hurry back to the prison where the original woman had been interned, and there to intimate to the sentry that he, Samosvitov (with whiskers and rifle complete), had been sent to relieve the said sentry at his post—a proceeding which, of course, enabled the newly-arrived relief to ensure, while performing his self-assumed turn of duty, that for the woman lying under arrest there should be substituted the woman recently recruited to the plot, and that the former should then be conveyed to a place of concealment where she was highly unlikely to be discovered.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

So long as the road was fairly level, the Ass got on very well: but by and by they came to a place among the hills where the road was very rough and steep, and the Ass was at his last gasp.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

Celsus thus describes the extraction of calculus through a perineal incision by means of a lithotomy scoop: Quum vero ea patefacta est, in conspectum calculus venit; in cuius colore nullum discrimen est.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Every institution which has conceded to a passion the belief in the duration of the latter , and responsibility for this duration, in spite of the nature of the passion itself, has raised the passion to a higher level: and he who is thenceforth seized with such a passion does not, as formerly, think himself lowered in the estimation of others or brought into danger on that account, but on the contrary believes himself to be raised, both in the opinion of himself and of his equals.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

At the end of those twelve days you come to a province of no great size, extending indeed no more than three days' journey in any direction, and this is called VOKHAN.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And in fact those who use ‘natural’ as an ethical notion do commonly suppose that by contemplating the actual play of human impulses, or the physical constitution of man, or his social relations, we may find principles for determining positively and completely the kind of life he was designed to live.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Johnson observed, that abilities might be employed in a narrow sphere, as in getting money, which he said he believed no man could do, without vigorous parts, though concentrated to a point.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The brown of her complexion gave way on the cheek to a perceptible flush, which deepened as she saw the gaze of the strange man fixed upon her in bold and undisguised admiration.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

‘I have been to-night, gentlemen,’ said Mr. Pickwick, hoping to start a subject which all the company could take a part in discussing, ‘I have been to-night, in a place which you all know very well, doubtless, but which I have not been in for some years, and know very little of; I mean Gray’s Inn, gentlemen.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Groping his way down a long, damp corridor, he came to a point where three narrower, brick-lined tunnels branched off, one of them dipping into the earth at a sharp angle.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

When examined under the microscope, these cotyledons, the alimentary part of the seed, have the appearance represented in Fig.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 by Various

First my pipe got in the way of my hand, then the elephant hairs caught in the collar of my coat; then a pang of rheumatism to which I was accustomed from an old lion-bite, developed of a sudden in my arm, and lastly I grew tired of bothering about the thing.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Acting under orders from the government, he compelled the chiefs there assembled, practically all of whom had been friendly to the United States during the war, to sign an "agreement and capitulation" by which they ceded to the United States all the land which they had claimed to the west of the Coosa.
— from Andrew Jackson by William Garrott Brown

The proposed banquet, however, was changed to a procession, extending from the Place of the Bastille to the Madeleine.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09: European Statesmen by John Lord

At last we came to a promontory of rock jutting out into the sea.
— from The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight

Boomalayla and his snake adviser, and the three travelers from Vairkingi were the only persons—if you can call them all “persons”—left in the vaulted chamber.
— from The Radio Planet by Ralph Milne Farley

The situation of America, at the time of the revolution, was not properly to be compared to a people altering their mode or form of government.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress