Adam had seen Dinah several times, but always at the Hall Farm, where he was not very vividly conscious of any woman's presence except Hetty's, and he had only in the last day or two begun to suspect that Seth was in love with her, so that his attention had not hitherto been drawn towards her for his brother's sake.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

On that bank, two men, separated by a certain distance, seemed to be watching each other while mutually avoiding each other.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

No sooner are these removed than its waters are covered over by vast quantities of oak staves, which are floated down separately to be rafted off like the squared lumber for the Quebec market.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than doth within a dull stale tired bed Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops Got ’tween asleep and wake?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I see it would be both ungrateful and unkind of me to pull so long a face that when my friends came to see me they would have to make their faces still longer in order to show their sympathy; or, if I desired to entertain them, to invite them to sit down silently to bitter herbs and funeral baked meats.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

Mass being ended Rawlins was called for again; to whom the bishop used many persuasions; but the blessed man continued so steadfast to his former profession, that the bishop's discourse was to no purpose.—The bishop now caused the definitive sentence to be read, which being ended, Rawlins was carried again to Cardiff, to a loathsome prison in the town, called Cockmarel, where he passed his time in prayer, and in singing of psalms.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

On Christmas Eve, at the tomb of the Ibarras in a gloomy wood, Elias appears, wounded and dying, to find there a boy named Basilio beside the corpse of his mother, a poor woman who had been driven to insanity by her husband’s neglect and abuses on the part of the Civil Guard, her younger son having [ix] disappeared some time before in the convento, where he was a sacristan.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

But my keen shafts whose flight is true, Shall pierce the ravenous monster through.” An arrow on the string he laid, And rushing near the bird surveyed, While earth to ocean's distant side Trembled beneath his furious stride.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Note 17 ( return ) [ {diekosioisi}: so the best authorities; others have {priekosioisi}.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

They are of different sizes, turned by the moulder, with the assistance of a boy, who is employed in keeping the lathe in motion.
— from The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times by John Thomas Smith

"The attack on Stradella having been made in the sight of numbers of people, who were walking in the same place, occasioned an uproar in the city, which soon reached the ears of the duchess: she ordered the gates to be shut, and diligent search to be made for the three assassins; and being informed that they had taken refuge in the house of the French embassador, she went to demand them.
— from The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 by Rupert Hughes

The trial did not last more than twenty minutes, at the end of which, an unhesitating verdict of guilty was returned, and she was duly sentenced to be hanged by the neck till she was dead.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XI.—April, 1851—Vol. II. by Various

Cracher (popular), to speak out ; —— des pièces de dix sous , to be dry, thirsty ; —— dans le sac , to be guillotined , to die ; —— ses doublures , to be consumptive .
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

As tin cups could not be found in St. Paul, we bought three or four dozen small tin basins of about six inches diameter at the rim, and when champagne was served out it was, faute de mieux , drunk from these eccentric goblets.
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

And so we camped and turned in to our sleeping-bags at 4 p.m. and marched again soon after midnight, doing five miles before and five miles after lunch: lunch, if you please, being about 1 a.m. , and a very good time, for just then the daylight seemed to be thin and bleak and one always felt the cold.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Sir William Drury, Sir Thomas Baskerville, and Sir John Boroughs acquired reputation this campaign, and revived in France the ancient fame of English valor.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

William Hammersley, Gerardus Beekman, John Shurmur, Sidney Breese, Daniel Shatford, Thomas Behenna, Peter Fresneau, Thomas Willett, John Breese, John Hastier, James Tucker, and Brandt Schuyler were sworn to try him.
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

So she determined suddenly to bring it to an end.
— from The Ghost Kings by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard