When I awoke the next morning, I found a letter lying on the table by my bed, telling me that he was going to the antipodes to seek his fortune, and that he would never see me again until he was a rich man.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Swinging northward, the country in the vicinity of [here follows a long list of towns] will be scoured , ending at [a named mountain], which will then be thoroughly searched and devastated .
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Meanwhile the two plotters had betaken themselves to the same house whither Nicholas had repaired for the first time but a few mornings before, and having obtained access to Mr. Bray, and found his daughter from home, had by a train of the most masterly approaches that Ralph’s utmost skill could frame, at length laid open the real object of their visit.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

So that if we dwell for a little longer on this subject, we shall not, in my opinion, be wearisome to our readers, who will attend both for the sake of understanding what is the end of this city of which we speak, and for the sake of the sweetness of peace which is dear to all.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

As for my lodging, I kept to the tent; except that sometimes, in the wet season of the year, it rained so hard that I could not keep myself dry, which caused me afterwards to cover all my place within my pale with long poles, in the form of rafters, leaning against the rock, and load them with flags and large leaves of trees, like a thatch.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Professor charged up and down the green aisles like a stout Teutonic knight, with a pole for a lance, leading on the boys, who made a hook and ladder company of themselves, and performed wonders in the way of ground and lofty tumbling.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

It opened, but Devanne fell from the ladder, for the entire section of the bookcase, lying between the first and last letters of the words, turned on a pivot and disclosed the subterranean passage.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

There were rafters from the torn-down floor above, lying loose on the ground—but they were too light.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The anteroom to his cabinet, and in which Graham had generally to wait some minutes before he was introduced, was generally well filled, and not only by persons who, by their dress and outward appearance, might be fairly supposed sufficiently illiterate to require his aid as polite letter-writers,—not only by servant-maids and grisettes, by sailors, zouaves, and journeymen workmen,—but not unfrequently by clients evidently belonging to a higher, or at least a richer, class of society,—men with clothes made by a fashionable tailor; men, again, who, less fashionably attired; looked like opulent tradesmen and fathers of well-to-do families,—the first generally young, the last generally middle-aged.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"Alpha and Omega," the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, are explained in the words,—"the beginning and the ending."
— from Notes on the Apocalypse by David Steele

Α and Ω are the first and last letters of the Greek Alphabet.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

Though descended, as has been shown, from a long line of the better class of English gentry, he never alluded to it himself; in fact, it was not known in his family until after his death, when they learned it through his correspondence.
— from Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster

It was dusk when she finished and led Lizzie out to observe the shiny, sweet smelling orderliness of the place.
— from Lydia of the Pines by Honoré Morrow

More observant husbands might have wondered what occasion there would be for a laundry list on Thursday evening, but Hemming was always drowned in his dreams of literary fame.
— from Tales from a Rolltop Desk by Christopher Morley

It affirmed, so far as London lodging or tenement houses were concerned,
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson