He moved on, and I followed him, through the darkness and the small soaking rain.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

So she thanked Charming, and ordered that preparations should be made for her departure, and they soon set out together.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The pulpit, that safe and sacred organ of sedition, resounded with the names of Pharaoh and Holofernes; the public discontent was inflamed by the hope or promise of a glorious deliverance; and the seditious saints were tempted to promote the accomplishment of their own predictions.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In regard more especially to what are commonly called moral delinquencies, this attitude was so decided as to shock some people even in those days, and many in these.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

"You don't know anything about business, my dear," answered the sire, shaking his head with an important air.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

their houses differently built, raised entirely above ground eaves about 5 feet from the ground Supported and covered in the same way of those above, dotes about the Same size but in the Side of the house in one Corner, one fire place and that near the opposit end; around which they have their beads raised about 4 feet from the fore which is of earth, under their beads they Store away baskets of dried fish Berries & wappato, over the fire they hang the flesh as they take them and which they do not make immediate use.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Nor indeed did Alcides traverse such spaces of earth, though he pierced the brazen-footed deer, or though he stilled the Erymanthian woodlands and made Lerna tremble at his bow: nor he who sways his team with reins of vine, Liber the conqueror, when he drives his tigers from Nysa's lofty crest.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

No more tempting approach could be imagined for the lukewarm Christian, and if he still finds the walk too long, the devil is defeated all the same, Science having built Holy Trinity, a Chapel of Ease, near the Charles’s and roofed it with tin.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Now whenever Amasis lay with her he found himself unable to have intercourse, but with his other wives he associated as he was wont; and as this happened repeatedly, Amasis said to his wife, whose name was Ladike: "Woman, thou hast given me drugs, and thou shall surely perish more miserably than any other."
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

The death of Archbishop Courtenay, July 31, 1396, left open to Thomas de Arundel the sole seat of honour in which he was not already installed.
— from The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt

At the same time Dick was graduated and made a drummer Henry Cabell was appointed a trumpeter, and it was their fondest desire to be detailed for duty at the same station if sent away in the near future, as was very likely to be the case.
— from The Marines Have Landed by Giles Bishop

When in my dream the fatal muse, With hair dishevell’d, and in tears, Melpomene appears; Upon my throbbing heart her hand she laid, Her hand as cold as death, and thus she said,— “Least of my care, be calmed!
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden

“Range in alongside the gangway and Dr. Adams, the ship’s surgeon, will explain to you what has happened.”
— from The Motor Rangers' Wireless Station by John Henry Goldfrap