Oftentimes it was her custom to climb the weary staircase that wound upward to the cupola, and thence strain her dimmed eyesight seaward and countryward, watching for a British fleet or for the march of a grand procession with the king's banner floating over it.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Insistía el señor a pesar de estas sesudas advertencias, contestaba el aldeano, poniendo la más viva resistencia, cuando la presencia de dos o tres carromateros que por el camino abajo tranquilamente 25 venían conduciendo una galera, puso fin a la cuestión.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

All the duck I received from home, I soon made up into trowsers and frocks, and displayed, every Sunday, a complete suit of my own make, from head to foot, having formed the remnants of the duck into a cap.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Friedrich Ratzel with his "thorough training as a naturalist, broad reading, and travel" and above all, his comprehensive knowledge of ethnology, recognized the importance of direct effects, such as cultural isolation.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

A row of small black-lacquered tables extended down each side, and chairs were set for the Japanese as well as the foreigners.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

By this strange turn of fate we have seen and helped to decide even such a contest.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

[*Footnote: Philosophy abounds in faulty definitions, especially such as contain some of the elements requisite to form a complete definition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

And such a one, though no man should believe that he liveth as he doth, either sincerely and conscionably, or cheerful and contentedly; yet is he neither with any man at all angry for it, nor diverted by it from the way that leadeth to the end of his life, through which a man must pass pure, ever ready to depart, and willing of himself without any compulsion to fit and accommodate himself to his proper lot and portion.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

what knows this place of changing mind Of men or gods; here shall long ages pass, And clean forget thy feet upon the grass, Thy hapless bones amid the fruitful mould; Look at thy death envenomed swift and cold!"
— from A Selection from the Poems of William Morris by William Morris

(Ja ‘18) Drown, E: S. Apostles’ creed to-day.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

I should have been near you and my grief, although feigned, would nevertheless have disturbed every simpleton at court."
— from Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas

"Dear, dear Eric," said Alete, clasping his hand.
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

De sun’s gittin’ kine o’ low, too, an’ look like she gwine git cotch in de dark ef she ain’ cyarful, so I drap my hoe in de grass an’ step ’long up ter de li’l arbor an’ se’ down on de step.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various

I opened it with trembling fingers, and poured out, chinking on the table, such a motley collection of coins as was never seen,—Spanish milled dollars, English sovereigns and crowns and shillings, paper issues of the Confederacy, and I know not what else.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

He and those around him, exhausted by such long and desperate efforts, such a continuous roar in their ears, and such a variation of intense emotions from the highest to the lowest, were scarcely conscious that the battle was over.
— from The Quest of the Four: A Story of the Comanches and Buena Vista by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

At daybreak enemy shells again commenced to fall, and it soon became quite apparent that no rest would be obtained that day.
— from Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron by Unknown