How The Nation Of The Troglodytes Were Derived From Abraham By Keturah.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

But, death, fires, and burglary, make all men equals; so Mr. Giles sat with his legs stretched out before the kitchen fender, leaning his left arm on the table, while, with his right, he illustrated a circumstantial and minute account of the robbery, to which his bearers (but especially the cook and housemaid, who were of the party) listened with breathless interest.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

And you can come down from a balloon in a parach—no you can't though.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

She never, I discovered, finished anything by the time she had promised, and she frequently spent more money on materials than her customer had authorized.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

We must get into the air; we must join our dear friend and brother, Riderhood.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

He was brought to a suitable place, where dried figs, a barley loaf, and cheese were put into his hand.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Whether, then, we look at calcined crags or lilies of the valley, whether astronomy, or geology, or chemistry be our study, the objects grouped under those sciences will be found to be equally the results of this one force, acting under different laws, and taking upon itself different forms, and becoming different objects.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

A horse will behave in a certain manner whenever he smells a bear, even if the smell is derived from a bearskin.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Although I should much prefer not to introduce a personal note into the discussion, I feel that nothing I say will carry any weight if it appears to be an expression of opinion by one who has never considered religious doctrines from anything but the orthodox Christian point of view.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Hamlet sees him beginning to frown and glare like the conventional stage-murderer, and calls to him impatiently, 'Leave thy damnable faces and begin!'
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Disappointment finds a balm Haply in slumber."
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

The mat was estimated at 25 outnou, the honey at 4, the oil at 10, and so on, the whole weighing 119 outnou, which is not too dear for a beast in good condition.
— from The World's Progress, Vol. 01 (of 10) With Illustrative texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Modern European and American Literature by Delphian Society

But there was an actual added element of humility and purity which the audience distinctly felt and bowed to.
— from In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon

Each side of the car was indented with four windows and four bull's-eyes, there was a door front and back, and a rear platform from which hung a ladder to get on and off.
— from Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys by Luis Senarens

Exasperated at this virago, the neighbours made a "riding," i.e. a pedestrian procession, headed by a drum, and accompanied by a chemise, displayed for a banner.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

They watch his figure slowly disappearing in the distance from a bend of the lane, and then send the dogs among the underwood.
— from The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies

Because did we of the fraternity of hunters pause to consider, and reason, we must see that a musquash ought not, and cannot be different from a beaver.
— from Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Martin Hunter

After some delay owing to contrary winds, on the 14th of August the English and Dutch fleets, accompanied by several additional gunboats, sailed for Algiers.
— from How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by William Henry Giles Kingston

Dim was the spot, for death is darkness, and too much light suits ill with the decaying flesh and bones of mortal man, be he king or plough-hind; yet, as the empress-queen entered, our acolytes touched the tips of three hundred and sixty-five tapers—sweet smelling tapers made of the wax brought from Gascony and Spain and Italie—and in an instant that dim sepulchral place was flooded with light, the converging rays meeting and shining brightest upon the black slab and the graven epitaph which began with the proud titles of the Beauclerc king, and which ended with that passage from holy writ which saith that all is vanity here below.
— from A Legend of Reading Abbey by Charles MacFarlane

There they made a king of Selim, and put a golden crown on his head; and that is what the Ring of Good Luck can do for a baker.
— from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle