God knows whether I shall succeed in calming them, but at least no tchinovnik could do so, for officials of the kind merely draw up reports and lose their way among their own documents—with the result that nothing comes of it.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

One, two, three, four: despair, unhappiness, resignation, and, lastly, some sort of authority as the recognized leader in his work, at least, of the grandiloquent first form: so passed the years of his cadetship, till, in the June of 1860, he graduated, honorably, and went off to spend the summer at Klin in his own fashion, giving very little thought to that impending commission which was once again to reorder his existence.
— from The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter

Month after month rolled on, the Varadero was finished, ships were drawn up, repaired and launched, Juan continued in prison.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

Sixteen batteries of the VIIth and VIIIth Corps accordingly drew up right and left of Gravelotte on the highway passing through that village.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

He marked off with buoys the channel through Wrangell Narrows, marked the more dangerous rocks and the channel in Peril Straits, corrected the erroneous position of several bays and coves, examined and reported new anchorages, and designated unknown rocks and ledges in Saginaw Channel and Neva Strait.
— from Alaska, Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore

And as Rohini followeth the moon, Rāma's beloved spouse, sprung in Janaka's line—like unto an embodiment of Divine power— dear (unto Rāma) as life itself, and engaged in acts of good, and furnished with every auspicious mark, and the best of wives, followed Rāma.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki

This is the captivity and bondage whence Christ delivered us, redeemed, and loosed us.
— from Lectures on Bible Revision by Samuel Newth

elle a done un rendezvous avec le valet de chambre?"
— from Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker

About 4 P.M., September 19th, C. S. Hamilton's division, under Rosecrans, attacked Little's division of Price's army on the Jacinto road, and a severe combat ensued until night, with varying success, both sides at dark claiming a victory.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer