For an instant every thing grew black before her eyes, and the earth seemed to slip away from underneath her feet.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Oh, would we could relate it everywhere, and to everyone, so that the emotion of our unknown benefactor might reveal his presence.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

A south-west wind brought up rain—the sun came out, and mocking the usual laws of nature, seemed even at this early season to burn with solsticial force.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Its aim is to bring good luck to the village during the ensuing year by solemnly expelling all the evil spirits that may have collected in or about the houses throughout the last twelve months.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Nor was any dissent [from this feeling] evinced at the election, so that Marcius was elected censor along with Cneius Manlius.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Now o'er the earth ascends the evening shade: The precious gifts the illustrious heralds bear, And to the court the embodied peers repair.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

My answer to that is, reduce internal revenue taxation until the present surplus is exhausted, and then endeavor so to arrange your tariff that you will not produce more than you need.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

The last twenty years of Hobbes's life, spent in repeated discomfiture at the hands of Seth Ward, Wallis, Boyle, and other scientific experts of the new Royal Society, certified conclusively to the failure of this enterprise, and the experimental specialist thereupon took exclusive possession of the field of natural law.
— from The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

Mr. Clifford's quick eye, as they entered, sought the window, but the seat was vacant now; evidences of its having been lately occupied were discernible in a work-basket that stood on a table near, and on which some embroidered muslin had been lightly thrown.
— from Woman As She Should Be; Or, Agnes Wiltshire by Mary E. Herbert

Whether organic relations can be established among these elements, so that there shall one day issue from the welter something well-rounded, something American, fitting American conditions and leading American aspirations forward and upward, is yet on the knees of the gods.
— from A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects by Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore) Bostwick

We had come but a few hundred yards into the clear air when out of the mist bank behind us shot another tug, the smoke streaming from the funnel, the steam puffing noisily from the escapes and the engine straining to increase the speed.
— from Blindfolded by Earle Ashley Walcott

Th' heir iv th' Hinnissys was enthered at th' exclusive school thirty years befure he was bor-rn.
— from Observations By Mr. Dooley by Finley Peter Dunne

A few days follerin' on and ensuin' after this eppisode, Submit Tewksburv wuz a takin' supper with me.
— from Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 3 by Marietta Holley