A helpless injured wretch I die, And something tells me in thine eye That thou wert mine avenger born.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Many a provocation has been offered, and a system of petty oppression pursued towards men, the force and meaning of which would appear as nothing to strangers, and doubtless do appear so to many "'long-shore" juries and judges.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

None of the direct affections seem to merit our particular attention, except hope and fear, which we shall here endeavour to account for.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

He knew Oxford, of course, but he had not been there for some years, and it was at Cambridge that he met Dyer and saw the Milton MSS.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

I have devised another scheme that might be resorted to in such a case; and if I could but obtain my brother’s consent and assistance, I should not doubt of its success.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

If, as I hope, he grants me my wish, be sure that you wake me an hour before the dawn, and speak to me in these words: 'My sister, if you are not asleep, I beg you, before the sun rises, to tell me one of your charming stories.'
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Desmond afterwards said that many of his people tried to escape by swimming the Blackwater, where they were intercepted by armed boats; and he offered this as a proof that the fight resulted from a plot hatched between Ormonde and Sir Maurice.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

There was a gentle easterly breeze blowing at the time, sweeping the smoke away in the direction of West Island, and, as we watched, the cloud rapidly increased in density, its colour darkened, and, somewhat to my astonishment, it seemed to spread in an easterly direction, or against the wind.
— from The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn by Harry Collingwood

Amos Jones came on deck an’ saw th’ manœuvres.
— from The Wind-Jammers by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

And the death of Captain Dacre always seemed to me highly mysterious."
— from The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

Mercury is enveloped in a very dense, thick atmosphere, which doubtless sensibly tempers the solar heat, for the Sun exhibits to the Mercurians a luminous disk about seven times more extensive than that with which we are familiar on the Earth, and when Mercury is at perihelion (that is, nearest to the Sun), his inhabitants receive ten times more light and heat than we obtain at midsummer.
— from Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion

Valentinian's miserable widow, daughter of the eastern, wife of the western, emperor, during a short two months the prey of her husband's murderer, became with her daughters the captive of the Vandal freebooter, and saw the elder compelled to marry his son Hunnerich, the future persecutor of the Church.
— from The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

I was at that time on duty, and suddenly, to my surprise, detected a number of ships.
— from The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux