She then took another line of expediency, and looking into the doubtful room, observed, “I do not think it is so very small.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Durias, r. of Italy ( Doria Baltea ), i. 305 . ——, r. of Italy ( Doria Riparia ), i. 303 , 323 . Duricortora, t. of Gaul, i. 290 . Duris, the historian, i. 94 . Durius, r. of Spain ( Douro ), i. 228 , 229 , 231 , 243 , 250 .
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

I jolt dem right out in deh street before dey knows where dey is! See?" "Sure," said Jimmie.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

At intervals from across the moors came the deadened rolling of insurgent drums, and in the sky a ruddy reflection of a fire brightened and waned as the fog thickened or blew inland—an ominous sign of disorder, possibly even a reflection from that unseen war raging somewhere beyond the obscured horizon.
— from The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Victor heard the vehicle roll in and stand panting at the curb, then the slam of its door, the diminishing rumble of its departure.
— from Red Masquerade Being the Story of the Lone Wolf's Daughter by Louis Joseph Vance

XXX "These strifes, unless I far mistake the thing, And discords raised oft in disordered sort, Your disobedience and ill managing Of actions lost, for want of due support, Refer I justly to a further spring, Spring of sedition, strife, oppression, tort, I mean commanding power to sundry given, In thought, opinion, worth, estate, uneven.
— from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso

It exists by divine right, or it does not exist at all.
— from The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting

Adjoining the railway is a double row of industrial dwellings, built by the trustees of the Peabody fund under the name of Peabody's Buildings.
— from Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

Days rolled on in dull monotony, and grew to weeks more slowly than before; earthly hopes had been levelled with the dust; life had forgotten to be joyous: there was, indeed, the calm, the peace, the resignation, the heavenly ante-past, and the soul-entrancing prayer; but human life to Emily was flat, wearisome, and void; she felt like a nun, immolated as to this world: even as Charles, too, had resolved to be an anchorite, a stern, hard, mortified man, who once had feelings and affections.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

But perhaps he was so far the nearer to a truth: while the cup of blessing may and often does run over, I doubt if the cup of suffering is ever more than filled to the brim.
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

The 3rd Division relieved our infantry during the night of the 30th September and captured Rumilly under an artillery barrage on the 1st October.
— from War Services of the 62nd West Riding Divisional Artillery by Austin Thomas Anderson

Execution, as the term implies, is the direct result of individual dexterity; the ability to interpret colour, tone, and texture of a picture by an arrangement of lines of varying depth and fineness; the ability also to imitate, or even create, pictorial expression.
— from Engraving for Illustration: Historical and Practical Notes by Joseph Kirkbride