The train was jolting, there were draughts, and now I am sitting on my bed, holding my head and expecting tic douloureux.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers; If these magnifick titles yet remain Not merely titular, since by decree Another now hath to himself engrossed All power, and us eclipsed under the name Of King anointed, for whom all this haste Of midnight-march, and hurried meeting here, This only to consult how we may best, With what may be devised of honours new, Receive him coming to receive from us Knee-tribute yet unpaid, prostration vile!
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

She was wonderfully well, eating, drinking, and sleeping to admiration, and never doing anything, not even reading or writing.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But here no hedge of bayonets opposed itself, no death-dealing artillery, no formidable array of brave soldiers—the unguarded walls afforded easy entrance—the vacant palaces luxurious dwellings; but above the dome of St. Sophia the superstitious Greek saw Pestilence, and shrunk in trepidation from her influence.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He d. at Nottingham in 1860.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

During two weeks I drove behind them every day, and never once saw them separate.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

I, too, have felt that there are strange, vague, indefinable influences at work at Carnac at all times of the day and night, very similar to those which I have felt in the most fairy-haunted regions of Ireland.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

“You’ll have to finish the game, Dave,” announced Ned, and the lanky southpaw at once began warming up.
— from Copper Coleson's Ghost by Edward P. Hendrick

Pieces of flying débris frequently dropped at no great distance from the gunners.
— from Khartoum Campaign, 1898; or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh

They devised a new treatment; the asteroid and the tank of acid.
— from Accidental Flight by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace

Ida's spirits and health declined alarmingly, now that the necessity of eluding suspicion was over.
— from Alone by Marion Harland

added the commander, with a note of religious fervour in his speech; 'and a dreadful surf like a nightmare of storm raves day and night round those rocks.'
— from The Last Entry by William Clark Russell

“I have done so already, dearest, and now we must part!
— from Only One Love; or, Who Was the Heir by Charles Garvice

Lawyers he will see who fight Day by day and night by night; Never both upon a side, Though their fees they still divide.
— from Shapes of Clay by Ambrose Bierce

For six days and nights the temple of devotion is filled with the pestilent vapours of the dead, and on the seventh they are absorbed by the living.
— from The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

A far more thorough conquest than that which the day of Hastings signalised was accomplished by an army of a more pacific kind, which crossed the Channel piecemeal, bringing in their hands, not bows and swords, but new dishes and new wines.
— from Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by William Carew Hazlitt