He went in by the main gateway, but found all quiet and dark and no one in sight.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

It appears to be not even mentioned in Mr Stuart Moore's volume on Northamptonshire in Domesday ; and no one, it seems, has cared to inquire to what date it belongs, or what it really is.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

When we were about to depart, a number of Indians stationed themselves above our camp.
— from The War of Chupas by Pedro de Cieza de León

From the ease with which divorces are now obtained, it seems to me a few good hangings would have a healthy influence upon this matter of marriage, and would make that declaration of the minister's, upon which he dwells with such solemn [317] unction, "What God hath joined, let not man put asunder," savor less of the ridiculous.
— from Letters of Peregrine Pickle by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

It is needless to say that while the simplicity of the best Greek style usually prefers the most direct and natural order, its suppleness lends itself to almost any gymnastic, and its lucidity prevents total confusion from arising.
— from The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

Would you really like to know what all my days and nights of intense study have come to?
— from The Book of Susan: A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd

It, too—unlike most other carnivorous plants, which, when the quantity of food with which they have to deal is in excess of their powers of digestion, succumb to the effort and die—appears to find it easy to devour any number of insects, small or large, the operation being with it simply a question of time.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various

They had no heavy artillery to assist them; they were without reinforcements; they were unceasingly assailed; they held on for days and nights of incessant struggle and anxiety; yet so undismayed were they that they could counter-attack with fiery courage.
— from The Children's Story of the War Volume 4 (of 10) The Story of the Year 1915 by Edward Parrott

[279] In Friesland the Dwarfs are named Oennereeske, in some of the islands Oennerbänske, and in Holstein Unnerorske.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley