He had only one other point to urge, and that was, that Monsieur Val, who, as he had understood, was himself a Protestant—the doctor bowed—would make arrangements with some kind and benevolent Protestant clergyman, through whom spiritual advice and consolation might be secured for the invalid lady; who had especial need, Robert added, gravely, of such advantages.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

He scrambled to his feet exclaiming, 'No! Rivets!' as though he couldn't believe his ears.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

To this question I expected no rational answer.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

The eyebrows not rarely are rendered oblique, which is due to their inner ends being raised.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

no engañar ni robar al señor Tudela.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

For myself—earth-bound and fettered to the scene of my activities,— Standing on earth, not rapt above the sky, I confess that I do feel the differences of mankind, national or individual, to an unhealthy excess.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

For, as to that infamous practice of acquiring great employments by dancing on the ropes, or badges of favour and distinction by leaping over sticks and creeping under them, the reader is to observe, that they were first introduced by the grandfather of the emperor now reigning, and grew to the present height by the gradual increase of party and faction.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

The nearer moon of Mars makes a complete revolution around the planet in a little over seven and one-half hours, so that she may be seen hurtling through the sky like some huge meteor two or three times each night, revealing all her phases during each transit of the heavens.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

On separate continents, and on different parts of the same continent, when divided by barriers of any kind, and on outlying islands, what a multitude of forms exist, which some experienced naturalists rank as varieties, others as geographical races or sub species, and others as distinct, though closely allied species!
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Give the enemy no rest, and if it is possible to follow to the Virginia Central road, follow that far.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete by Philip Henry Sheridan

He died in 1661, at the advanced age of eighty or ninety years, leaving two sons whom the English named respectively Alexander and Philip.
— from A Century Too Soon: The Age of Tyranny by John R. (John Roy) Musick

"He's got to go," said Lucas, stroking Poacher's head, "an' mind me, dog," and he put his hand under the dog's jaws and lifted them so that he could look in his eyes, "no runnin' away from Ciscasset.
— from 'Tilda Jane: An Orphan in Search of a Home. A Story for Boys and Girls by Marshall Saunders

Risings of pretenders and republican conspiracies might ensue and provoke new commotions, perhaps even new revolutions and restorations; but the continuity of the free republic that had been uninterrupted for five hundred years was broken through, and monarchy was established throughout the range of the wide Roman empire by the legitimacy of accomplished fact.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

She had gone out on enough murder stories to know the person who worked his brain ... could beat anything ... even newspaper reporters and ... police.
— from The Hospital Murders by Means Davis

Apart from agricultural land and forests, exploitable natural resources are mica, hydropower, and tourism.
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

This was due partly to the fact that there were not sufficient vessels to admit of adequate time being spent in harbour to rest the crews and effect necessary repairs, and partly to the nature of the work itself and the weather conditions under which so much of it was carried out.
— from The Crisis of the Naval War by John Rushworth Jellicoe

Page 173, for "an even number," read "an ancient number."
— from The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West

Atomic energy, nuclear reactors, and radioisotopes are terms in everyday usage.
— from Radioisotopes and Life Processes (Revised) by Walter E. Kisieleski