Some of the small boys of Number 4 communicated the new state of things to their chums, and in several other rooms the poor little fellows tried it on—in one instance or so, where the praepostor heard of it and interfered very decidedly, with partial success; but in the rest, after a short struggle, the confessors were bullied or laughed down, and the old state of things went on for some time longer.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

He and Fechner, prompted by Czermak's observation that the skin of the blind was twice as discriminative as that of seeing folks, sought by experiment to show the effects of practice upon themselves.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Olaf king of Norway then threw, and had six upon one dice, and the other split in two, so as to make seven eyes in all upon it; and the district was adjudged to the king of Norway.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

XXXI On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves; The gale, it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

Dion, a kinsman of the elder Dionysius and tyrant of Syracuse (356-353); a devoted disciple of Plato at Syracuse and Athens, i , 155 .
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

He do not approve of my letter I drew and the office signed yesterday to the Commissioners of Accounts, saying that it is a little too submissive, and grants a little too much and too soon our bad managements, though we lay on want of money, yet that it will be time enough to plead it when they object it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The army that Bajazet had sent into Russia was overwhelmed with so dreadful a tempest of snow, that to shelter and preserve themselves from the cold, many killed and embowelled their horses, to creep into their bellies and enjoy the benefit of that vital heat.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Her consciousness was at that other dairy, at that other season, in the presence of the tender lover who had confronted her there—he who, the moment she had grasped him to keep for her own, had disappeared like a shape in a vision.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Drives a team of spanking bays at the Four-in-Hand meets.
— from The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles by Henry Augustus Hering

Forty millions at your first centenary, it is reasonably to be expected that, at the second, these states will be occupied by two hundred millions of English-speaking people, spread over an area as large as that of Europe, and with climates [Page: 132] and interests as diverse as those of Spain and Scandinavia, England and Russia.
— from American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology by Thomas Henry Huxley

A nearly new 1,500-ton tramp she was, light draught at that, or she'd never have gone where she did.
— from For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss

And how mean and vulgar did all the others she had known seem by comparison with him—how contemptible the polished insipidity of Walpole, how artificial the neatly-turned epigrams of Atlee.
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

We had desired at the outset, Sir, to quote this decree in full as an irrefutable answer to a question put by Defense Counsel some days ago in cross-examination, as to whether or not anti-Semitic policies of the conspirators were the policies merely of certain demented or deviational members of the conspiracy and not the concerted, settled policy of the conspiracy itself.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

So long a period allowed for growth, and such a fine field too for development as the open sea affords, readily explain the enormous size reached by some fish of rapacity in their vast domains, and particularly by those ocean pirates, the dreaded and dreadful sharks; who, according to the authorities, though “overwhelmed with cruelty,” yet “come to no misfortune like other” fish; whose eyes swell with fatness; who do even as they list; growing up the terror of navigators and the scourge of the deep.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 2, August 1852 by Various