Before descending into the bowels of the ship, we had passed from the deck into a long narrow apartment, not unlike a gigantic hearse with windows in the sides; having at the upper end a melancholy stove, at which three or four chilly stewards were warming their hands; while on either side, extending down its whole dreary length, was a long, long table, over each of which a rack, fixed to the low roof, and stuck full of drinking-glasses and cruet-stands, hinted dismally at rolling seas and heavy weather.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

He would come to a teacher’s, would sit down, and remain silent, as though he were carefully inspecting something.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

You may remember that I was distrait, and remained sitting after you had all alighted.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

But so it was, and the night before Dobbin came to join these young people—on a fine brilliant moonlight night of May—so warm and balmy that the windows were flung open to the balcony, from which George and Mrs. Crawley were gazing upon the calm ocean spread shining before them, while Rawdon and Jos were engaged at backgammon within—Amelia couched in a great chair quite neglected, and watching both these parties, felt a despair and remorse such as were bitter companions for that tender lonely soul.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I remember so well one day, when the rain was pouring down in torrents, the scavengers were before the house where I was in service, and I had come up with the dust, and remained standing at the door—it was dreadful weather—when just as I was there, the postman came and gave me a letter.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Here was no Procession; the King stood still in his first place; no Exorcised Water; no Asperges Me, nor other impertinent application of words spoken upon another occasion; but a decent, and rationall speech, and such as in making to God a present of his new built House, was most conformable to the occasion.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Hens and chickens cackled their death chant to the accompaniment of dry and repeated strokes, as of meat pounded on a chopping-block, and the sizzling of grease in the frying-pans.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Instead of pretending to read Ovid he does actually read Schopenhaur and Nietzsche, studies Westermarck, and is concerned for the future of the race instead of for the freedom of his own instincts.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

The OWI was placed under Mr. Elmer Davis, a Rhodes scholar and novelist who had become one of the nation's most popular radio commentators.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The town drunkard, Alf Reesling, seldom appeared on the streets in his habitual condition, because, as he dolefully remarked, he would deserve arrest and confinement for "criminal negligence," if for nothing else.
— from The Daughter of Anderson Crow by George Barr McCutcheon

Lanciani ( Ancient Rome , and others); Burn, Rome and the Campagna; ZIEGLER, Das alte Rom; Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography; Smith and Cheatham's Dictionary of Christian Antiquities; FRIEDLÄNDER, Sittengeschichte Roms (2 vols.); Histories of Roman Literature by Simcox.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

Six tales are taken from The Axis of the Earth , but “For Herself or Another” is taken from {vii} the volume entitled Nights and Days , and “Rhea Silvia” and “Eluli, son of Eluli,” from the book bearing the title of Rhea Silvia , in the Russian Universal Library.
— from The Republic of the Southern Cross, and other stories by Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Each pair seeks a separate spot for its own nest, driving away all other birds, so that breeding settlements, such as we have elsewhere described, are rarely seen amongst them.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

Ashtaroth had presented himself to Rinaldo in Egypt, and, after telling his errand, he and Foul-mouth, his servant, entered the horses of Rinaldo and Ricciardetto, which began to neigh, and snort, and leap with the fiends within them, till off they flew through the air over the pyramids and across the desert, and reached Spain and the scene of action just as Marsilius brought up his third army.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Ever and again its fingers flapped down and rose stiffly again.
— from Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

After our labor is finished, After the struggle is done, A restful surcease awaits us At the setting of life's sun.
— from Our Profession and Other Poems by Jared Barhite

And so he’ll die; and rising so again, 311 When I shall meet him in the court of heav’n, I shall not know him; therefore never, never Must I behold my pretty Arthur more.
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt

He rubbed on the vaseline, fearing the liniment would blister and increase his discomfort, and replaced splint and bandage.
— from The Ranch at the Wolverine by B. M. Bower