He came out to meet us with great gentleness, with his dress now torn and his face so disfigured and burned by the sun, that we hardly recognised him but that his clothes, though torn, convinced us, from the recollection we had of them, that he was the person we were looking for.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Like all that passing and gloomy scene, the low basin, however, quickly melted in the darkness, and became blended with the mass of black objects in the rear of the travelers.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Democracy also binds brothers to each other, but by very different means.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The leaves are something drying and binding, but inferior in virtue to the roots, to which I refer you.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Accordingly, this ancient Tarquin was found in the waggon, whither he had retired to avoid the shame of last night's disgrace, and brought by force into her presence.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Looking fearfully down, Aristides beheld between the interstices of the rafters, which formed a temporary flooring, that there was another opening below, and in that opening a man was working.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

With his equals in age this could never be the case, and the subjects of inquiry, though they might be influenced, would not be entirely under the direction of men, who frequently damp, if not destroy abilities, by bringing them forward too hastily: and too hastily they will infallibly be brought forward, if the child could be confined to the society of a man, however sagacious that man may be.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Horses are tied by the heads; dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by the loins, and men by the legs: when a man is overlusty at legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And assuredly no one will argue that there is any other method of comprehending by any regular process all true existence or of ascertaining what each thing is in its own nature; for the arts in general are concerned with the desires or opinions of men, or are cultivated with a view to production and construction, or for the preservation of such productions and constructions; and as to the mathematical sciences which, as we were saying, have some apprehension of true being—geometry and the like—they only dream about being, but never can they behold the waking reality so long as they leave the hypotheses which they use unexamined, and are unable to give an account of them.
— from The Republic by Plato

A young fellow with a paint-box and canvas came swinging along, stopped before the pretty girl, said something during a brief but vigorous handshake at which they both laughed, and he went his way, calling back, "À demain Valentine!"
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

"I am sure it is, sir," said George, not at all, however, knowing what was the state of things which his uncle described as being better.
— from The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope

We got a tolerable breakfast at Cleveland, and a bad dinner at Buffalo, but dry your eyes, the strawberry shortcake was uncommonly good.
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

The pond above mentioned was small, not more than a quarter of a mile in breadth, and of no great length, the water being very clear, though not of great depth, and bordered by a beautiful forest of pine, fir, elm,[101] and beech, [101] free from bushes and underwood—a most delightful retreat, which was rendered still more attractive by a great number of birds that frequented it, particularly the humming-bird.
— from The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island by John Rodgers Jewitt

They had done a big business with Bremen before the war, and they would be doing a big business again soon.
— from Command by William McFee

'I suppose he knows a great deal about being brave,' he said.
— from Two Maiden Aunts by Mary H. Debenham

The Cimbri declined a battle, because, as they said, they were waiting for the Teutones, and wondered they were so long in coming; but it is doubtful whether they were still really ignorant of their destruction or merely pretended not to believe it.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4) by Plutarch

Since it is almost impossible to define a boundary between the continental rise and the ridge, we consider the Southeast Newfoundland Ridge an extension of the continental rise.
— from The Floors of the Ocean: 1. The North Atlantic Text to accompany the physiographic diagram of the North Atlantic by Bruce C. Heezen

The next day the china merchants along Nuuanu Street did a big business in mosquito bars, supplying us on the strength of our "chits" after the captain had verified the statement that each man was to be paid five dollars, on account, at the end of the week.
— from Under Sail by Felix Riesenberg

It does seem hard that he had to die and be buried so far away from all he loved."
— from Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds by Martha Finley

Indeed, the supposed sympathy of the elements with human joy or sorrow or suffering is evidently a very ancient superstition; and this presumed sensitiveness, not only of the elements, but of animated nature, to the perpetration of deeds of darkness and blood by perverted nature, has in all ages been extensively believed.
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer