Nelson, when this singular request was reported to him, went into the room, and taking the worthy old gentleman kindly by the hand, consented to receive six bottles, provided the donor would dine with him next day.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

On this hallowed spot was Christ the Redeemer slain and buried.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

‘It would serve you right, Annabella,’ said I, at length, ‘if Lord Lowborough were to return to his old habits, which had so nearly effected his ruin, and which it cost him such an effort to break: you would then see cause to repent such conduct as this.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

If thy house must come to ruin, should it therefore in its fall crush the heels of him that set it up?
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The Emperor yields on condition that Renialdos shall leave France forever.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The moment he showed himself to be thus engaged the Count turned round, slipped past the persons who occupied seats on the farther side of him from where we stood, and disappeared in the middle passage down the centre of the pit.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

In the silence of wakeful nights and the solitude of quiet days, she took counsel with her better self, condemned the reckless spirit which had possessed her, and came at last to the decision which conscience prompted and much thought confirmed.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

In every such case the reader should see at a glance what was the reading of the first edition, and on what authority it has been altered.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Well, James opened the letter and inserted a note asking Arthur to meet him in a little wood called the Ragged Shaw, which is near to the school.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

It does not appear, however, that the Pharaohs ever thought of connecting the Red Sea with the Mediterranean.
— from France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

Such things as baths, lifts, fish-knives, two-steps and rag-times, casinos, theatres, rackets, skates, hot-water bottles, whisky, beef-steaks, churches, chapels, cameras, puttees, jig-saws, bridge-markers, clubs, China tea, phonographs, concert-halls, charitable societies, money-changers, hygiene, picture post cards, even books—-just cheap ones!
— from Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People by Arnold Bennett

Furthermore, the American Socialist Society, the corporation that owns and conducts the Rand School, had been convicted under the Espionage Act before the United States District Court and heavily fined by Judge Julius M. Mayer.
— from The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

He had crossed the Rush Street bridge and found his way up to the Lake Shore Drive almost without realizing whither he was going.
— from The Girl and the Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure by Bannister Merwin

“Furlough” wounds came to receive slight sympathy.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

MARTIAN.-"It is usual for you Christians to raise several calumnies against our gods; for which reason I command you to come now with me to a banquet in honor of Jupiter and Juno, and acknowledge and perform what is due to their majesty."
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

With not one tenth of England's experience in the fishery, and not the thousandth part of that of the Americans, they have nevertheless furnished both nations with the only finished sketches at all capable of conveying the real spirit of the whale hunt.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

On the question as to the definitive Convention there was more difference of opinion: Dundas, Lord Heathfield, Craig, and Nugent thought it fair and reasonable; Lord Moira, the Earl of Pembroke, and Nicholls considered it as unjustifiable, considering the relative situations of the two armies.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 From the Treaty of Fontainbleau to the Battle of Corunna by Charles Oman

How dearly all the Holy Leaves 1 cherish that memory of the departed Master, as He commented upon the fresh tidings that poured in from that continent, admiring the untiring activity of the friends, the complete subordination of their material interests to those of the Cause, the remarkable spread of the Movement in their midst and their staunch firmness in the Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh.
— from Bahá'í Administration by Effendi Shoghi