How glad I am that all these native races are dead and gone, or nearly so.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Where, as he says, the Decay and gloom of Nature seem reflected in—nay, as it were, to take a reflection from—the Hero’s troubled Soul.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2 by Edward FitzGerald

" "We must take one day, and gather our nuts," suggested Jimmy, struggling to make his voice sound natural, "and you forgot the apples.
— from At the Foot of the Rainbow by Gene Stratton-Porter

In this way did a general of no slight merit perish, through fear of false accusations heaped on him in his absence by a faction of wicked men, and which drove him to the utmost extremities in order to preserve his safety.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

His reign began, in pomp and ceremony, June 15, 1888, it ended in the darkness and gloom of night, shortly before the signing of the armistice, November 11, 1918.
— from Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller

" Dot and go One "—no, see Dot , and go several times again to see our Johnnie Toole at his own Theatre, before he leaves for the Antipodes.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 by Various

The principle of this arrangement arises from the laws of harmony, the two extremes of sound (as well as of length) are found at either end, and the intervening pipes convey downwards a gradation of notes so as to combine the first and shrillest with the last and deepest of all.
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus