One crusty old gentleman objected, but I got in, notwithstanding; and, putting my cheeses upon the rack, squeezed down with a pleasant smile, and said it was a warm day.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Notwithstanding the respectful civility expressed by the usurper towards the widow of Severus, she descended with a painful struggle into the condition of a subject, and soon withdrew herself, by a voluntary death, from the anxious and humiliating dependence.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He’s traipsing all round Dublin with a postcard someone sent him with U. p: up on it to take a li...
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

So they came and went every day, with a peculiar shriek from the locomotive, from and to some point of the polar regions, as it seemed to me, like a flock of arctic snow-birds.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

This being the last day of the civil year, a feeling of deep thankfulness prompts him to end his diary with a prayer similar to the one he uttered on the conclusion of the Jewish year.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

There is not a single detail which a patient student may not verify from Theocritus.
— from The Pleasures of Life by Lubbock, John, Sir

The principal Church lands in Galway were made over to McWilliam, the head of the Burkes; O'Brien received the abbey lands in Thomond; other chiefs received similar benefices according to their degree, while a plentiful shower of less substantial, but still appreciated favours followed.
— from The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless

This doctor, with a Polish surname difficult to pronounce, lived at a pedigree stud-farm twenty miles away, and was now on a visit to the town.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[40] Sir George Ayscue was accordingly detached with a powerful squadron, and was instructed to endeavour, by gentle means, to bring the colonists to obedience; but, if these failed, to use force, and to give freedom to such servants and slaves of those who should resist, as would serve in the troops under his command.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

the daughters would ask patiently, sadly, day by day.
— from A Dozen Ways Of Love by L. (Lily) Dougall

THIS DAY WITH A PECULIAR SOR- ROW, NOT UNMIXED WITH SHAME.
— from Numantia by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Well, she came down with a present she had made for her; she was wonderful handy with her fingers, and my wife and she was very old friends.
— from The Old Pincushion; or, Aunt Clotilda's Guests by Mrs. Molesworth

"The next step in the story of how this unhappy girl became the victim of an apparently irrebuttable set of circumstances through her own silence, has to do with another person's secret visit to the moat-house on the night of the murder.
— from The Hand in the Dark by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees