Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply from within.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

They seldom spoke of Ydgrun, or even alluded to her, but would never run counter to her dictates without ample reason for doing so: in such cases they would override her with due self-reliance, and the goddess seldom punished them; for they are brave, and Ydgrun is not.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

“I am ready,” says Marya Petrovna, coming into the room five minutes later, dressed, washed, and ready for action.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The ought in the aesthetical judgement is therefore pronounced in accordance with all the data which are required for judging and yet is only conditioned.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Thus Ráma spake: Sugríva heard, And mighty joy his bosom stirred: As thus his champion he addressed: “Now by thy favour, first and best Of heroes, shall thy friend obtain His realm and darling wife again Recovered from the foe.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

These Islanders of Cuba , being reduc'd to the same Vasselage and Misery as the Inhabitants of Hispaniola , seeing themselves perish and dy without any redress, fled to the Mountains for shelter, but other Desperado's, put a period to their days with a Halter, and the Husband, together with his Wife and Children, hanging himself, put an end to those Calamities.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

“You do spoil that boy dreadfully,” said Marilla, when Davy, with a radiant face, had followed prim Dora out.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The troops now at the Dardanelles which are required for Salonika would be two divisions, preferably the Xth and XIth.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Ian Hamilton

No one can rise from the perusal of this immortal poem without a deep sense of the grandeur and the purity of Milton's soul, or without feeling how susceptible of domestic enjoyments he really was, notwithstanding the discomforts which actually resulted from an apparently unhappy choice in marriage.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When the animal is irritated it contracts, and the 133 water which fills the perpendicular chambers is forced in a stream through the slits, and carries with it the white filaments lodged within them; and then these quivers, which are full of deadly weapons, are ready for action.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 2 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

Manteau Andriana , of violet velvet, having a small capuchon , or hood, decorated with a rich fancy trimming in passementerie , to which are attached at regular distances long soft tassels; very wide sleeves, in the Oriental form, decorated to match the capuchon ; the lower part of the cloak is ornamented with a kind of shell-work in passementerie , which forms galerie ; upon the fronts are placed brandebourgs in Spanish points.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

“On the seventh day, we all rested from our labour.
— from The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid

But this was still in the future; and the time was yet apparently distant when a responsible French minister could entertain the idea of an Austrian alliance.
— from The Marquis D'Argenson: A Study in Criticism Being the Stanhope Essay: Oxford, 1893 by Arthur Ogle

The throat of the furnace, where it enters the angle of the oven, is bricked up, and eight pieces of ¾-inch gun-barrel tubing project above this dwarf wall, and radiate fan-shaped under the dome of the roof.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various