However, the rain soon cooled them down again: they lapped a drop of water each, and crept back into their kennels.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

This was considered by the Ystradgynlaisians, with many nods to each other, as a most accurate description of what Elizabeth Gething would probably be, after having shuffled off this mortal coil.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

I was soon able to call for bread and drink, or whatever else I wanted.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

The saying it at the proper time, is speaking neither too soon nor too late; for if one does, one will err and speak improperly.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

But if this view of nations and of their relation to one another is adopted by the democracies of Western Europe, and is financed by the United States, heaven help us all.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

For no one were those days of waiting easy.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Three districts only were exempted from the common law of subjection; the first forever, the two last till the middle of the succeeding century.
— 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

Nothing is so perfectly amusement as a total change of ideas; no ideas are DEDICATION so totally different as those of Ministers, and innocent Lovers: for which reason, when I come to talk of Statesmen and Patriots, and set such marks upon them as will prevent confusion and mistakes concerning them for the future—I propose to dedicate that Volume to some gentle Shepherd, Whose thoughts proud Science never taught to stray, Far as the Statesman’s walk or Patriot-way; Yet simple Nature to his hopes had given Out of a cloud-capp’d head a humbler heaven; Some untam’d World in depths of wood embraced— Some happier Island in the wat’ry-waste— And where admitted to that equal sky, His faithful Dogs should bear him company.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

gut-o , drop (of water, etc.).
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

This was reversed afterwards, excepting with regard to some dark blue, and other draperies, of which examples may be seen in Correggio.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 402, April, 1849 by Various

The daughter, of whose early education we have made mention, was married to the Elector of Brandenburg, and so her religion settled finally on the Protestant side.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

The preferable Officers having 3 s. 6 d. a day only when employed, are supposed to receive wages for 2-3ds.
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

The poor part these words are made to play recalls the fate of those pagan divinities who, after being understood to rule the powers of the air and the destinies of men, came down to the level of insignificant demons, or were even made a farcical show for the amusement of the multitude.
— from Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot

A certain price is paid for admission into these unions and their dances, of which each has one peculiar to itself, like the other Missouri tribes; on which occasion the women are given up to the will of the seller in the same manner, as will be more particularly mentioned when speaking of the other tribes.
— from Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 1 by Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

A declaration of war ensued: all we happy English were ordered away from Paris; and I think I left one or two fair ladies there inconsolable.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Under this head would be included decisions of law courts, declarations of war, etc.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

what Hippocrates says of Physick, [17] Physick is of long standing, hath sure Principles, and a certain way by which in the Course of many Ages, an Infinity of Things have been discovered, of which, Experience confirms the Goodness; All that is wanting, for the perfection of this Art, will without doubt be found out, by those Ingenious Men, who will search for it, according to the Instructions and Rules of the Ancients, and endeavour to arrive at what is unknown, by what is already plain: For whoever shall boast that he has obtained this Art by rejecting the ways of the Ancients, and taking a quite different one, deceives others, and is himself deceived; because that's absolutely impossible.
— from The Preface to Aristotle's Art of Poetry by André Dacier

Such 'colonelcies' do not imply the actual command of men, but are honorary distinctions of which even kings and conquerors are proud.
— from The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 by William Charles Henry Wood

It was not, therefore, possible for the artilirie to march so fast as the Prince's army, in the depth of winter, extremely bad weather, and the worst roads in England; so Lord George Murray was obliged often to continue his marches long after it was dark almost every night, while at the same time he had frequent alarms and disturbances from the Duke of Comberland's advanc'd parties. 'Towards the evening of the twentie-eight December 1745 the Prince entered the town of Penrith, in the Province of Comberland.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott