He now moved in state toward his breakfast-room, through the midst of the courtly assemblage; and as he passed, these fell back, leaving his way free, and dropped upon their knees.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

" "Yes, Professor; but more fortunate than you, I was able to find a footing almost directly upon a floating island.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

That is to say, did he feel a dependence upon, or acknowledge allegiance to a higher power?”
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Visiters enter, look at furniture, and depart unheeded and unseen.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Thus ginseng, or “sang,” as it is more often called by the white mountaineers, is known to the laity as â′talĭ-gûlĭ′ , “the mountain climber,” but is addressed in the formulas as Yûñwĭ Usdi′ , “Little Man,” while selu (corn) is invoked under the name of Agawe′la in myths, as, for instance, that of Prosartes lanuginosa , which bears the curious name of walâs′-unûl′stĭ , “frogs fight with it,” from a story that in the long ago— hĭlahi′yu —two quarrelsome frogs once fought a duel, using its stalks as lances.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

“Cedric's fate also depends upon thy determination,” said De Bracy; “and I leave thee to form it.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Well, but my country, say you, as far as depends upon me, will be unassisted.
— from The Enchiridion by Epictetus

Every Creature, without doubt, requires a different Period of Heat or Cold to enliven it, and put it in Motion, which is prov’d by so many known Instances, that I conceive there is no room for any dispute upon that score.
— from The Plague at Marseilles Consider'd With Remarks Upon the Plague in General, Shewing Its Cause and Nature of Infection, with Necessary Precautions to Prevent the Speading of That Direful Distemper by Richard Bradley

Now, lest it should be thought that unseemly haste was displayed in attending to this affair while Mr. Polymathers still lay in the little next room, I must explain that for special reasons the nature of the funeral arrangements depended upon the result of the conference; and how deeply important such a point would be considered at Lisconnel I need remind no one who has occasionally been perplexed by our propensity for the pinching and scraping which takes toll of a life-long penury, that a brief show of pomp may invest the last scene of all.
— from Strangers at Lisconnel by Jane Barlow

She frowned desperately at the leaping flames, and did ultimately decide that Stephen's death was preferable to her defeat in that contest.
— from The Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

He now, however, at length bent himself, with the whole strength of his mind, and the whole force of his empire, to prepare for this final and decisive undertaking.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III. by Walter Scott

The moon at length coming up behind the clouds lent a spectral aspect to the forest, and deceived us for a time into the notion that day was at hand; but the rain never ceased, and we lay wishful and waiting, with no item of solid misery wanting that we could conceive.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 by Charles Dudley Warner

[43] 1717 After the suppression of this rebellion the King of Sweden espoused the cause of the Pretender, and made preparations for a descent upon Britain; and the Fourth Horse , with several other corps, were placed under the command of Lieutenant-General Wills, and sent to the north.
— from Historical Record of the Third, or Prince of Wales' Regiment of Dragoon Guards Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1838 by Richard Cannon

They went farther and demanded unreasoning acquiescence in decisions to be taken in the future, and a promise of prompt acceptance of their injunctions—a pretension such as was never before put forward outside the Catholic Church, which, at any rate, claims infallibility.
— from The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon

That philosophy may exist at all, it must start from the assumption of a universe, a real unity of truth, and its problem is to find a discerned unity.
— from Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by Henry Churchill King

There was just time for a dash up there before leaving at 12 noon.
— from An Autobiography by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) Butler