"June 18th," his diary says, "Cape Spartel in sight, but no French fleet, nor any information about them.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

The Sanskrit dramatists show considerable skill in weaving the incidents of the plot and in the portrayal of individual character, but do not show much fertility of invention, commonly borrowing the story of their plays from history or epic legend.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

I’ll take my pistols—” “Do,” said Cassy; “sleep in that room.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Drinksum (brand), 524 Droste, H.R., 503 Drouais, François Hubert, 589 , 599 Drug stores, C. sold in, 415 Drums ( see Containers ) Drupes ( see also Botany ; Fruit ), 136 Dry method, 136 , 249 , 251 Dry roast, 389 , 391 Dryden, John, 60 , 77 , 78 , 80 , 84 , 574 , 575 , 583 , 584 Drying, 251 Drying grounds, 251 , 254 Drying machinery, 254 , 255 Du Barry, Madame, ill. , 92 , 563 , 566 , 588 Du Belloy, Archbishop, 697 Du Mont, 543 Du Tour, q. , 707 , 708 Dubard, Prof., q. , 147 Dublin Philosophical Journal , per. , q. , 704 Ducis, 548 Duehring, Carl H., pat.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Perhaps, on climbing again to the summit of the cone, Cyrus Harding had had a hope of discovering some coast, some island shore, which he had not been able to perceive in the dark the evening before.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Saint Teresa is the expert of experts in describing such conditions, so I will turn immediately to what she says of one of the highest of them, the “orison of union.”
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

"It is the absurd way in which this provision is worded that not only creates all the trouble but also makes the whole document so curiously significant in view of the testator's disappearance."
— from The Eye of Osiris by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

"And what does Sheila care," said Ingram with a hot flush in his face, "for the belief of a lot of idle gossips and slanderers?"
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various

And it is no wonder that a man of his dark cunning, working on one of the obtuse moral sense, the love of money, and the thoughtlessness of consequences, of Elwood, should, as he did, soon completely succeed in his objects.
— from Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson