To the general disappointment, however, it was not to be found; it seems to have disappeared entirely from the town.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

So when Sisinnes, and those that were with him, understood the intention of the king, they resolved to follow his directions entirely for the time to come.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

“I was born a native of these parts,” answered their guide, and as he made the reply they stood before the mansion of Cedric;—a low irregular building, containing several court-yards or enclosures, extending over a considerable space of ground, and which, though its size argued the inhabitant to be a person of wealth, differed entirely from the tall, turretted, and castellated buildings in which the Norman nobility resided, and which had become the universal style of architecture throughout England.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

The Gael beheld him grim the while, And answered with disdainful smile: 'Saxon, from yonder mountain high, I marked thee send delighted eye Far to the south and east, where lay, Extended in succession gay, Deep waving fields and pastures green, With gentle slopes and groves between:— These fertile plains, that softened vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael; The stranger came with iron hand, And from our fathers reft the land.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Though perfectly familiar with them, my conduct and manner were different enough from theirs to place a space between us.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Then Ráma as he took the road With Lakshmaṇ, while the morning, glowed, To the Videhan lady cried, Sítá the fair, the lotus-eyed: “Look round thee, dear; each flowery tree Touched with the fire of morning see: The Kinśuk, now the Frosts are fled,— How glorious with his wreaths of red!
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

A daily afternoon launch trip across Two Medicine Lake brings the visitor to the foot of Sinopah, from which there is a short, delightful path through dense evergreen forest to the foot of Twin Falls.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

The old blood sympathy of the Dutch element for the Transvaal Boers which had been so strongly manifested in 1881, when the latter were struggling for their independence, had been superseded, or at least thrown into the background, by displeasure at the unneighbourly policy of the Transvaal Government in refusing public employment to Cape Dutchmen as well as to Englishmen, and in throwing obstacles in the way of trade in agricultural products.
— from Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

And the suggestion always had the desired effect for the time being; but the sight of Snowball driving Kickup into the meadow would as regularly upset all her good intentions.
— from Overland Tales by Josephine Clifford

During the day, except for the time I spent sitting on the area steps after nine o'clock, I was waiting on the cook in a hot kitchen.
— from What eight million women want by Rheta Childe Dorr

The best trap for wolves, however, is the 4 1/2 which was designed especially for trapping these animals.
— from Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits and Distribution, with Practical Methods for Their Capture by Elmer Harry Kreps

Longcluse, with folded arms, and his shoulders against the wall, is in a profound reverie, his dark eyes for the time lowered to the floor, beside the point of his French boot.
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

"Often I saw Anna Maria standing in the twilight under the old linden; motionless, she looked over yonder, where, in the evening haze, the dark, gabled roofs of Dambitz emerged from the trees of the park.
— from A Sister's Love: A Novel by W. Heimburg

Fulkerson enjoyed the interviews with the police captains and the leaders of the strike; he equally enjoyed the attempts of the reporters to interview the road managers, which were so graphically detailed, and with such a fine feeling for the right use of scare-heads as to have almost the value of direct expression from them, though it seemed that they had resolutely refused to speak.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells

As a matter of fact, the Occamists, like the Scotists, did not here differ essentially from the Thomists, although differences are apparent in their teaching on the supernatural habit, and on the preparation for the attainment of this supernatural righteousness, i.e. for justification.
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar