" This distinction, though by no means a subtle one, was yet too subtle for Mr Clare the elder, and he went on with the story he had been about to relate; which was that after the death of the senior so-called d'Urberville, the young man developed the most culpable passions, though he had a blind mother, whose condition should have made him know better.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

From the painful struggles of disease and despair, these unhappy victims were sometimes relieved by madness or death; and, in the sixth century, a hospital was founded at Jerusalem for a small portion of the austere penitents, who were deprived of their senses.
— 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

Meg meanwhile had apparently forgotten the matter and was absorbed in preparations for her father's return, but all of a sudden a change seemed to come over her, and, for a day or two, she was quite unlike herself.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Thus for more than nine centuries this forged epistle hovered about the doors of the sacred Canon, without either finding admission or being peremptorily excluded.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

In the decoration of these scenes, the Roman emperors displayed their wealth and liberality; and we read on various occasions that the whole furniture of the amphitheatre consisted either of silver, or of gold, or of amber.
— 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

N.T. Ἀχλύς, ύος, ἡ, a mist; darkening of the sight, Ac. 13.11.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

For seven weeks and mote did this infatuated Democrat go about borrowing seven shilling pieces, and lesser coin, to meet the daily demands of the Stamp Office, which allowed no credit to publications of that side in politics.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The principle of distribution of the subject-matter between the two works is far from obvious, and has been much debated.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

In these Prolegomena I cannot further descant on the subject, but my reader (who has probably been long accustomed to consider experience a mere empirical synthesis of perceptions, and hence not considered that it goes much beyond them, as it imparts to empirical judgments universal validity, and for that purpose requires a pure and a priori unity of the understanding) is recommended to pay special attention to this distinction of experience from a mere aggregate of perceptions, and to judge the mode of proof from this point of view.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

After some little confusion, Mr. Poindexter required the decision of the Speaker whether it was consistent with the propriety of debate, to use such an expression.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

"Won't do," he objected, giving a glance in the direction of the small "bogie" stove.
— from Rounding up the Raider: A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

On reading descriptions of the situation of our missionary brethren and sisters in Beirut, Jerusalem, and elsewhere, the thought has arisen, ‘That is such a place as I should like to call home.’
— from Mary and I: Forty Years with the Sioux by Stephen Return Riggs

Every Quaker-boy or girl, who comes into the world, must, however poor, if the discipline of the society be kept up, receive an education.
— from A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends by Thomas Clarkson

1826 Died on the same day that John Adams expired, July 4th.
— from Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch by Edward Sylvester Ellis

It gleamed very brightly, almost as you may have beheld the round, golden disk of the sun, when it rises or sets over the edge of the world.
— from A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne

These brilliant discourses left me still perplexed on the main point, and I was forced to ask myself again if it was at all likely that one world could be made so unlike all others as to become the only scene of such a wonderful event as the death of the Son of God.
— from Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World by James Cowan

Even my mother, after that miserable flight of our chief, was scared at the aspect of affairs, and doubted of the speedy putting down of the rebellion.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

He was a realist, if I understand the word, but he did not care to deal much with the disagreeable or the shocking, as those whom we call realists usually do.
— from The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections by A. Edward (Alfred Edward) Newton

A quick step was heard on the stairs, and Jabez Tinker stood at the door of the sick-room.
— from Tom Pinder, Foundling: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood by D. F. E. Sykes