At a feast he gave on the banks of the canal for draining the Fucine Lake, he narrowly escaped being drowned, the water at its discharge rushing out with such violence, that it overflowed the conduit.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Slips of the tongue do really occur with special frequency when one is tired, when one has a headache or when one is indisposed.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

And so they drank their cup of coffee together, and walked about the deck, and heard the captain's assurance that they should be in at Mudport by five o'clock, each with an inward burthen; but in him it was an undefined fear, which he trusted to the coming hours to dissipate; in her it was a definite resolve on which she was trying silently to tighten her hold.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

, but away by water to the Temple, and there, after spending a little time in my bookseller’s shop, I to Westminster; and there at the lobby do hear by Commissioner Pett, to my great amazement, that he is in worse condition than before, by the coming in of the Duke of Albemarle’s and Prince Rupert’s Narratives’ this day; wherein the former do most severely lay matters upon him, so as the House this day have, I think, ordered him to the Tower again, or something like it; so that the poor man is likely to be overthrown, I doubt, right or wrong, so infinite fond they are of any thing the Duke of Albemarle says or writes to them!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"But how do you and your neighbour get on about the disputed right of way?" said Mr. Jarndyce.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This doubt grew on me so, after he had gone, that I declined riding out with Sir Percival, and went up to Laura's room instead.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

I have let the light of heaven into the dim recesses of Wall Street in which these buccaneers of commerce concocted their plots.
— from Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson

The corvette's boat by this time had reached the shore, and after making the acquaintance of Mr. Anóssof, Colonel Knox, the Herald correspondent, and half a dozen Russian officers who spoke English with the greatest fluency, we proceeded to open and read our long-delayed mail.
— from Tent Life in Siberia A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia by George Kennan

But there is no certain information about the inhabited centres 221 of Hazara population; and from what we know of that desolate region of winter snow and wind, there never could have been anything to tempt an invader, nor would any sound commercial traveller have dreamt of passing that way from Seistan to Bamian and Kabul.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir

For a half hour John Dunn, doubting, raging, overwhelmed with spiritual agony as to the state of his own soul rather than fear, strove to enter that southwest chamber.
— from The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

[Pg cxxvii] Tear in pieces Drank, ran Open weather Sickly At long run Notwithstanding that Contented himself with doing 'Tis a question whether Civility With child by a man Presently Absolutely impossible An enclosure In time to come No other thing Remember it
— from Philosophical Works, v. 1 (of 4) Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Editions Published by the Author by David Hume

Dolly rattled off what she knew of Hope's repertoire.
— from Hope Benham: A Story for Girls by Nora Perry

It was during those earlier years—along through the first and second centuries—that most of the great building was done, remnants of which survive to this day.
— from The Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine