For as long as the lust of war lingers in the hearts of the Germans and the lust of gain at the price of human suffering lingers in the hearts of the Jews, both races will remain necessary to each other and the hideous nightmare of war will continue to brood over the world.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Now Julia found at length a voice, and cried, 'In heaven's name, Don Alfonso, what d' ye mean?
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

After the angelic fashion of women, she had borne trouble with a calm face as long as there was some one weaker than herself to support, and I had found her bright and placid by the side of the frightened housekeeper.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

He seemed to feel exactly as she felt about life and its surroundings—that they were a tragical rather than a comical thing; that though one could be gay on occasion, moments of gaiety were interludes, and no part of the actual drama.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

In many palaces, however, such suites form a long and straight vista, while the folding doors slide back nearly to the walls on either hand, so that the view of the whole extent is scarcely impeded.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Sugríva raised a cry That shook and rent the echoing sky, A shout so fierce and loud and dread That stately bulls in terror fled, Like dames who fly from threatened stain
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Further that, as in such case business is like to be heavy, our Revolutionary Tribunal too shall have extension; be divided, say, into Four Tribunals, each with its President, each with its Fouquier or Substitute of Fouquier, all labouring at once, and any remnant of shackle or dilatory formality be struck off: in this way it may perhaps still overtake the work.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The river-bed was here about a mile and a half broad and entirely covered with shingle over which the river ran in many winding channels, looking, when seen from above, like a tangled skein of ribbon, and glistening in the sun.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Then there is another kind of devotees called SENSIN, who are men of extraordinary abstinence after their fashion, and lead a life of such hardship as I will describe.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Hickman is in a rich tobacco region, and formerly enjoyed a great and lucrative trade in that staple, collecting it there in her warehouses from a large area of country and shipping it by boat; but Uncle Mumford says she built a railway to facilitate this commerce a little more, and he thinks it facilitated it the wrong way—took the bulk of the trade out of her hands by 'collaring it along the line without gathering it at her doors.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

They are the crowd from the street,—the thief with his girl pal, eager to spend the plunder of their last successful exploit; the big corporation’s entertainer, out to show a party of country customers the sights of a great city; the visitor from afar, lonely and seeking excitement; the man about town, the respectable woman who with a trusted male confidant seeks shady and clandestine amusement; college students with unspoiled appetites off for a lark; women of the district still new enough to the life of vice to find pleasure in its excitements; periodical drinkers out for a night of it; clerks, cashiers, bookkeepers, schoolboys and roués.
— from Little Lost Sister by Virginia Brooks

At the very moment that her doom seemed fixed a light air sprang up, and, with the help of the boats, gave her once more head-way.
— from Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by William Henry Giles Kingston

The lunch was finished at last, and both of them rose from the table.
— from Fighting for the Right by Oliver Optic

But May’s steps had begun to flag a little, and her cheek to grow rather pale, and Hugh said that he was sure she was tired, and proposed that they should go no farther, but take a rest until the others returned.
— from Down the River to the Sea by Agnes Maule Machar

Peter Cairns and Miss Susanna exchanged sympathetically droll glances as they listened to the lively repartee that went on for a little among the three chums.
— from Marjorie Dean Macy's Hamilton Colony by Josephine Chase

Have her start a fight and leave angry.
— from Founding Father by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

These efforts did not make a lasting impression upon the minds of the company; because they saw nothing surprising in a physician's being acquainted with all the mysteries of his art; and, as their custom was already bespoke for others of the profession, whom it was their interest to employ, our adventurer might have starved amidst the caresses of his acquaintance, had not he derived considerable advantage from a lucky accident in the course of his expectancy.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

In that of Katharine Oswald [54] , the prisoner’s counsel had the boldness to argue, that no credit was to be given to the confessions of the other witches, who had sworn to the presence of the prisoner at some of their orgies; “for all lawyers agree,” argued he, “that they are not really transported, but only in their fancies, while asleep, in which they sometimes dream they see others there.”
— from Magic and Witchcraft by George Moir