'“Shall” is summ'at of a hard word, Captain,' urged Riderhood, still feebly dodging between him and the door, as he advanced.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

On the ledge of rock above this strange couple there stood three solemn buzzards, who, at the sight of the new comers uttered raucous screams of disappointment and flapped sullenly away.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

[2432] Which opinion Geraldus de Solo maintains in his comment upon Rhasis. SUBSECT.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Hor come un scoglio stassi, Hor come un rio se'n fugge, Ed hor crud' orsa rugge, Hor canta angelo pio: ma che non fassi!
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Meantime, in Washington, among the great persons and their entourage, a mixture of awful consternation, uncertainty, rage, shame, helplessness, and stupefying disappointment.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

"Come upstairs," Rawdon said to his wife.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

In order to preserve the veracity of his paper, which will be the first object of his attention, it will be requisite that all transactions of a domestic nature, such as deaths, marriages, &c., be communicated under real signatures.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Atque illi, quorum studia vitaque omnis in rerum cognitione versata est, tamen ab augendis hominum utilitatibus et commodis non recesserunt: nam et erudiverunt multos, quo meliores cives utilioresque rebus suis publicis essent, ut Thebanum Epaminondam Lysis Pythagoreus, Syracosium Dionem Plato multique multos, nosque ipsi, quicquid ad rem publicam attulimus, si modo aliquid attulimus, a doctoribus atque doctrina instructi ad eam et ornati accessimus.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He sent them to take charge of one of the cities under Roman sway, assuring them that it was in course of being betrayed and giving them permission to plunder it: he then sent to the consuls pretended deserters to give them advance information of the coming of the Gauls.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

When, in the sixth century, the entire nation of the Visigoths had been bodily converted from Arianism to Catholicism under Recared, son of Leovigild, Christian churches began to rise in all parts of Spain; and in these the horseshoe arch once more appeared.
— from Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain by Annette M. B. Meakin

He beckoned to 'Zekiel's dog, who came up rather sulkily—and 'Zekiel found himself outside the magic circle, and well on his way home, almost before he
— from Soap-Bubble Stories For Children by Fanny Barry

Some of these times you'll be swinging on this wire, and you'll see me coming, and you'll swing, skip, and flirt yourself around, and chip up right spunky: 'SEE ME?'
— from Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

He died at his home, corner Ursulines & Robertson Streets, on December 23rd, 1893, at the ripe age of 83 years.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various

"Were I," says he, "to enumerate all the bishops who have entered into second nuptials, I should name as many as were present at the Council of Rimini"— "Tantus numerus congregabitur ut Riminensis synodus superetur."
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 03 by Voltaire

The pamphlet poems "American Liberty" and "General Gage's Confession," (until recently supposed to have been lost) exist only in unique copies.
— from The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 1 (of 3) by Philip Morin Freneau

"We received," says Cicero, "the Sicilian communities into our clientship and protection in such a way that they continued under the same law under which they had lived before, and obeyed the Roman community under relations similar to those in which they had obeyed their own rulers."
— from The History of Rome, Book III From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States by Theodor Mommsen

In concham caderet subjecti marmoris imber, Donec ibi in fontem collectis undique rivis <span class="pagenum" id="page_184">{184} Cresceret, atque ipso jam non ingratus ab ortu Redderet humorem matri, quæ commodat umbram.
— from The Curse of Kehama, Volume 1 (of 2) by Robert Southey

"But I cannot understand," Raoul said to Cyril later, in the imagined privacy of their hut.
— from The Ignoble Savages by Evelyn E. Smith