As a sort of objective commentary on Jude's remarks there drove up at this moment with a belated Doctor, robed and panting, a cab whose horse failed to stop at the exact point required for setting down the hirer, who jumped out and entered the door.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

In 1821, Dauriat published for him an imaginative work which Lucien de Rubempre alternately praised and criticized.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Next turn to the east, kneel down, recite a prayer, and conclude it with the Grand Appellation, when the Unclean Spirit will appear to you in a scarlet surcoat, a yellow vest, and breeches of pale green.
— from Human Animals by Frank Hamel

“Good-e’en t’ye, dame,” said the stout hunter, doffing his cap, and resting his rifle in a corner, while Dick rose and placed a chair for him.
— from The Dog Crusoe and his Master by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

His vital force is not so well sustained by never-failing supplies of nutritious and digestible food and regular nightly sleep, and his powers are more exhausted in hardships and exposures, in excessive labors and want of due rest and protection against cold and heat, storms and rains.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The coming years brought doubts and distractions, religious and political, and Clough parted from Oxford.
— from Victorian Literature: Sixty Years of Books and Bookmen by Clement King Shorter

Kaiserin Augusta Victoria is a most desirable hardy white, and the new rose, Virginia R. Coxe—also offered under the name of Gruss an Teplitz—is one of the most desirable reds; a profuse and constant bloomer with loose-petalled, medium-sized flowers of the richest scarlet, shading to glowing velvety crimson.
— from The Flower Garden by Ida D. (Ida Dandridge) Bennett

There is every reason to believe that in geologic ages the moon was nearer to us than it is now, and that accordingly our tides were then far more violent, rising some hundreds of feet instead of twenty or thirty, and sweeping every six hours right over the face of a country, ploughing down hills, denuding rocks, and producing a copious sedimentary deposit.
— from Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

The hunt ended satisfactory to both parties; and while Sarah was getting an extra good dinner ready, Archie proposed a canter “to give them an appetite.”
— from From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables