The huts which served for hospitals were surrounded with filth, and with the putrefying hides of slaughtered cattle—almost sufficient of themselves to have engendered pestilence; and when at last orders were given to erect a convenient hospital, the contagion had become so general that there were none who could work at it; for besides the few who were able to perform garrison duty, there were not orderly men enough to assist the sick.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

‘Shall I tell you that the young man, who, looking back to the earliest of his childhood’s days to which memory and consciousness extended, and carrying his recollection down to that moment, could remember nothing which was not in some way connected with a long series of voluntary privations suffered by his mother for his sake, with ill-usage, and insult, and violence, and all endured for him—shall I tell you, that he, with a reckless disregard for her breaking heart, and a sullen, wilful forgetfulness of all she had done and borne for him, had linked himself with depraved and abandoned men, and was madly pursuing a headlong career, which must bring death to him, and shame to her?
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

A remark which so delighted Chia Lien that his eyebrows distended, and his eyes smiled, and running over, he clasped her in his embrace, and called her promiscuously: "My darling, my pet, my own treasure!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

By his voice, the sword of Charles was chained in the scabbard; and the Greek ambassadors beheld him, in the pope's antechamber, biting his ivory sceptre in a transport of fury, and deeply resenting the refusal to enfranchise and consecrate his arms.
— 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

Hurstwood turned away and set his lips so as best to express and conceal his feelings.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

I answered, as my bitter tears fell fast on her hand, do what I would to restrain them; “even if I remained in England and could hold my head up with the rest, how could I see you Drummle's wife?” “Nonsense,” she returned,—“nonsense.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

( b. ) nēmō nisi vīctor pāce bellum mūtāvit , S. C. 58, 15, nobody except a conqueror has ever exchanged war for peace .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The words "device," "ensign," and "cognisance" have no definite heraldic meaning, and are used impartially to apply to the crest, the badge, and sometimes to the arms upon the shield, so that they may be eliminated from consideration.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Being now to northward of the Falkland Islands, the ship was kept off, north-east, for the equator; and with her head for the equator, and Cape Horn over her taffrail, she went gloriously on; every heave of the sea leaving the Cape astern, and every hour bringing us nearer to home, and to warm weather.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

After which, during the whole period of his embassy and convalescence, he gave frequent lectures, taking much pains to instruct his hearers, and he has left us an example well worthy of imitation.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

But at least, he knows there is no use fighting with those whom you cannot conquer; and while he can get money out of these great ladies for his almshouses, and orphan-houses, and lodging-houses, and hospitals, and workshops, and all the rest of it—and in that, I will say for him, there is no man on earth equal to him, but Ambrose of Milan and Basil of Caesarea—why, I don’t quarrel with him for making the best of a bad matter; and a very bad matter it is, boy, and has been ever since emperors and courtiers have given up burning and crucifying us, and taken to patronising and bribing us instead.’
— from Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley

As it began to move, he and Juve exchanged a cordial handshake.
— from A Nest of Spies by Pierre Souvestre

burst in Montagu indignantly; “fine spree—to make sots of yourselves with spirits; fine spree to—” “Amen!” said Wildney, who was perched on the back of a chair; and he turned up his eyes and clasped his hands with a mock-heroic air.
— from Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Elsie and Cissy have spent years here, and what they do does not amount to much.
— from Celibates by George Moore

The slightest change of position gave me intolerable anguish, as I lay, with closed eyes and crossed hands, not a bad resemblance of those stone saints one sees upon old tombstones.
— from Confessions Of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

If that future embraced a comfortable home, if a mate and affection suggested themselves as possibilities well within his reach, the basis of those tentative yearnings rested upon the need that dwells within every normal human being, and upon what he saw happening now and then to other young men—and young women—within the immediate radius of his observation.
— from Burned Bridges by Bertrand W. Sinclair

It is moral fidelity which apprehends the true application and significance for man of that regular procedure of nature which environs and conditions him.
— from The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam

All my soul cries out in vain For her embracing, satisfying love, her eyes and called her my Ruahmah!
— from The House of Rimmon: A Drama in Four Acts by Henry Van Dyke

One has no words to express how tantalizing it must have been to Joseph to see this Egyptian have his dreams so gladly and speedily fulfilled, while he himself, who had so long waited on the true God, was left waiting still, and now so utterly unbefriended that there seemed no possible way of ever again connecting himself with the world outside the prison walls.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods