Nelson, therefore, whose orders were perfectly clear and explicit, withdrew the whole naval establishment from that station, leaving the transports victualled, and so arranged that all the troops and stores could be embarked in three days.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

That’s clear enough, for the stains lie above each other—if you lay it over this way.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

DO you suppose I could?—'fore I get to Heaven, I mean,” she cried, pulling out with eager fingers the straight locks above her ears.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

At the author end: better education of web authors to use combinations of modalities to make communication more effective across language barriers (and not just for cosmetic reasons); - at the server end: more translation facilities à la AltaVista (quality not impressive, but always better than nothing); - at the browser end: more integrated translation facilities (especially for the smaller languages), and more quick integrated dictionary lookup facilities.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

280 That many years must have elapsed since its original publication, is evident from the subsequent lines in the second book of the Tristia: Nos quoque jam pridem scripto peccavimus
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Few among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And seeing that they were both absorbed in their own thoughts and their own griefs, and not noticing him, he stopped and, shading his eyes from the sun, looked after them for a long time till they disappeared into their copse.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Twice or thrice thrusts were attempted on both sides, without effect; sparks were emitted from the swords like water spouting forth.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Once there the rest was easy, for the stair led into the passage, and the passage to the main door, which was always open till nearly midnight.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Vicar but knowing no father or lord on earth, in the mighty Emperors of that day, in the men who turned from the toils of the camp and the splendours of the court to tame their own bodies with the hardness of a hermit in his cave, in Nikêphoros seeking rest on his bearskin on [Pg 160] the earth for the stalwart limbs that had smitten down the Saracen, in Basil with his girdle of iron on his loins, marching forth to trample under foot all that stood forth as either the foe of Christ or the foe of Rome.
— from The Chief Periods of European History Six lectures read in the University of Oxford in Trinity term, 1885 by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

Then she drew a long breath and turned very white as she stood a moment shielding her eyes from the sun, looking in the direction in which Tommy pointed.
— from Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper, and Other Stories by Anonymous

The corn expected from the Sequani, Leuci, Lingones was not to come to the Roman army in the course of their march against Ariovistus, but to be delivered at Besancon before their departure, and taken by the troops along with them; as is clearly apparent from the fact that Caesar, while pointing his troops to those supplies, comforts them at the same time with the hope of corn to be brought in on the route.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

The water of irrigation, on the other hand, is applied [Pg 383] for many months in succession, it is drawn from rivers at the seasons when their proportion of salts is greatest, and it either sinks into the superficial soil, carrying with it the saline substances it holds in solution, or is evaporated from the surface, leaving them upon it.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

My love is so excessive for the same lady, that I beg you to leave her to me.
— from Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Leigh Hunt

There she was now at Overfield, living in a nightmare of suspense, watching so eagerly for the scanty letters, disappointed every time of the good news for which she hoped….
— from The King's Achievement by Robert Hugh Benson

Bewildered, and gradually guessing the explanation from the shivering little boner's alarmed expression, the gladsome youth approached the stern Butch Brewster, who was about to condemn him for his silence.
— from T. Haviland Hicks Senior by J. Raymond Elderdice

It was the rector's custom to spend three months every year at his living, for which purpose he reserved an apartment in his parsonage-house, which was full large enough for two such little families as then occupied it.
— from Amelia — Volume 2 by Henry Fielding

So will all the nations of earth follow their spiritual leaders and hurl out from the round globe the crumbling thrones and sceptres of kings and emperors and the tottering papal chair of Rome, down, down, into the vast tomb of antiquity!
— from Strange Visitors A series of original papers, embracing philosophy, science, government, religion, poetry, art, fiction, satire, humor, narrative, and prophecy, by the spirits of Irving, Willis, Thackeray, Brontë, Richter, Byron, Humboldt, Hawthorne, Wesley, Browning, and others now dwelling in the spirit world; dictated through a clairvoyant, while in an abnormal or trance state by Henry J. Horn