Chowbok liked seeing me do this, but it never came to anything, for we did not even find the colour.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

He had arranged everything for the continuation of my musical education, but, as he was preparing himself for his departure, my father died very suddenly, after a short illness, and I was left an orphan.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"Bot it is otherwise of ane tame and dantoned horse; gif any man fulishlie rides, and be sharp spurres compelles his horse to take the water, and the man drownes, the horse sould not be escheit, for that comes be the mans fault or trespasse, and not of the horse, and the man has receaved his punishment, in sa farre as he is perished and dead; and the horse quha did na fault, sould not be escheit.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

If the bird pecks at the rice, good luck is ensured for the coming year, whilst, if perchance the bird pecks three times, the offerer of that particular bird can scarcely contain himself for joy.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Father Goriot withdrew, stammering some words, but Eugene failed to catch their meaning.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

In 1792 he received a company in the 26 New South Wales Corps, and embarked for that colony, where he served several years.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Certainly, the siege of Tyre appeared to be a great enterprise; for the city was an island 309 and fortified all round with lofty walls.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

The truth is that they, in all sincerity, put the effect for the cause, and the cause for the effect, inasmuch as they failed to perceive that at the root of this system of Morals there lay, as absolutely necessary assumptions, however tacit and concealed, all the alleged consequences that had been drawn from it.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

He estimated his expenditure for the next nine months at rather more than double his expenditure for the past nine months, and while during the first period his revenue had amounted to one-fifth of his expenditure, for the coming months he was budgeting for receipts equal to one-eighth of his outgoings.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

On glancing upwards, however, he recovered his composure, for he perceived the sound to be emanating from the clock, which appeared to be in a mind to strike.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

These poems divide themselves naturally into three periods, in which we may trace the progress of Gray's emancipation from the classic rules which had so long governed English literature.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The purple color is imparted by the burning, or oxidation of small particles of K. Write the equation for the combustion of each.
— from An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus P. (Rufus Phillips) Williams

Indeed, last night, I got into dreadful trouble by dressing up and playing my tambourine and dancing to attract the attention of the men, whilst you were escaping from the corn-chamber.
— from Eve: A Novel by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The mules were again urged to increase their pace, and images of the refreshment and repose that were expected from the convent's hospitality, became general and grateful among the travellers.
— from The Headsman; Or, The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper

He also invaded the Britons, a people formerly unknown, and having vanquished them, exacted from them contributions and hostages.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar by Suetonius

At a short distance behind the house were the houses of the men, and the corrals, or enclosures, for the cattle.
— from On the Pampas; Or, The Young Settlers by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Indeed, it is rather unfortunate for William of Tyre, that of the three cardinals, whom he alone excepts from the charge of bribery, two, namely, Octavian, and John of St. Martin,—afterwards figured as principal actors in the scandalous schism which rent the Church after Adrian's death: the first as Frederic Barbarossa's anti- pope, under the name of Victor IV.
— from Pope Adrian IV: An Historical Sketch by Richard Raby

When at last they emerged from the cold, dark room into the bright sunshine, the child gave a great cry of delight, and the blue eyes fairly danced with joy as they fell upon the dazzling snow.
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

Decker looked wildly about for a way of escape from the convention auditorium.
— from The Ordeal of Colonel Johns by George H. (George Henry) Smith

This partly defeated the object of mined nets, except for the closing of narrow fair-ways, and their scope as a weapon of attack became strictly limited.
— from Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace Was Met and Vanquished, with Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships, Nets, Aircraft, &c. &c., Also Describing the Selection and Training of the Enormous Personnel Used in This New Branch of the Navy by Charles W. (Charles William) Domville-Fife