"The English chief still continued on the port tack, and," says the writer, "as night fell we could see him proudly leading his line past the squadron of North Holland and Zealand
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

ECCENTRIC CHEESEMONGER.— solution To leave the three piles at the extreme ends of the rows, the cheeses may be moved as follows—the numbers refer to the cheeses and not to their positions in the row: 7-2, 8-7, 9-8, 10-15, 6-10, 5-6, 14-16, 13-14, 12-13, 3-1, 4-3, 11-4.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

‘Call Elizabeth Cluppins,’ said Serjeant Buzfuz, rising a minute afterwards, with renewed vigour.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

People wondered at his luck, and scraps of these conversations came to his ears as he went from room to room; all the women prophesied his success; and Delphine, in her dread of losing him, promised that this evening she would not refuse the kiss that all his entreaties could scarcely win yesterday.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

I had no conception that vessels ever came so far north, and was astounded at the sight.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This alone promised the empire such commercial and political advantages that the enormous expenditures and the frightful hardships which these expeditions caused Siberia, might be justified.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Therefore, inasmuch as in each case some of those things which by nature had been common property became the property of individuals, each one should retain possession of that which has fallen to his lot; and if anyone appropriates to himself anything beyond that, he will be violating the laws of human society.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Then the dialogue sort of poofed out once more, and we stood eating cheese straws and cold eggs respectively in silence.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

“Evidently the body destined to save this country,” eagerly continued Sir Vavasour.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

In his little work, “Voluntary Servitude,” which inspires astonishment in all who read it, while vindicating and exalting Liberty as derived from Nature, and setting forth how “this good mother” has given to us all the whole earth for a home, has lodged us all in the same house, has fashioned us all according to the same pattern, so that each can see and recognize one in another, and then, alluding to the gift of voice and speech for our better mutual acquaintance and fraternity, also to the means by which Nature ties and binds so strongly the knot of our alliance and society, also to the manifestation in all things that she did not wish so much to make us all united as all one, the precocious philosopher declares: “There can be no doubt that we are all naturally free, since we are all companions , and it cannot fall into any human head that Nature has put anybody in slavery, having put us all in company .”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

[199] et indicio ipsius Jugurthae, qut si dediticius est, profecto jussis vestris obediens erit; sin ea contemnit, scilicet existimabitis, qualis illa pax aut deditio sit, ex qua ad Jugurtham scelerum impunitas, ad paucos potentes maximae divitiae, in rem publicam damna atque dedecora pervenerint.
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust

Shorter, Rev. James, establishes Colored school, 213 .
— from History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

Some of ‘em seemed to think that digging was everything, but ‘e could say with pride that ‘e ‘adn't put a spade to ‘is garden for three years until a week ago, and then not much.
— from Light Freights by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Diu phalanx a fronte, a lateribus, ab tergo caesa est; postremo, qui ex hostium manibus elapsi erant, 15 inermes ad mare fugientes, quidam aquam etiam ingressi, manus ad eos, qui in classe erant tendentes, suppliciter vitam orabant; et cum scaphas concurrere undique ab navibus cernerent, ad excipiendos sese venire rati, ut caperent potius quam occiderent, 20 longius in aquam, quidam etiam natantes, progressi sunt.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The contemptuous answer which ensued led to a duel in which each combatant slightly wounded the other.
— from Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

He was young; he was handsome; he was slim, for a rajah; he wore European costume, save for the huge white turban with its obtrusive diamond; and he spoke English much better than a great many Englishmen.
— from Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen

He haunted the studios a good deal, and through a retrospective affinity with art, and a human sympathy with the sacrifice which it always involves, he was on friendly terms with sculptors and painters who were not in every case so friendly with one another.
— from Indian Summer by William Dean Howells