cried the affrighted wretch; and clearing the open doorway with one leap, he fled across the field at full speed.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

There is added a special chapter on Combinations of Clauses, in which the grammatical and logical relations of coördination and subordination are set forth, and their functions in the effective use of language are considered.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

But we must first add the following remarks to what has been said.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

I should have scarcely cut a figure among the franklins, or country gentlemen, in king John's days.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

2 This custom was the most sacred bond of friendship among the Filipinos, and friendship so pledged was usually kept with great fidelity.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

We must recognize the true heroism of the men and women who braved the hardships and suffered the privations of frontier life in the thirties, the forties and the fifties.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Do that good mischief which may make this island Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban, For aye thy foot-licker.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[Reads] Why, Ned, I beseech thee, hast thou forsworn all thy friends in the Old Jewry? or dost thou think us all Jews that inhabit there?
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

He was the only one of the Indian lads who dared fish above the falls.
— from Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas by Various

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— from The Brownie Scouts and Their Tree House by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

it was too late, for already the fire-brands came flying into the Hunnic camp.
— from Ekkehard: A Tale of the Tenth Century. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

It was from a fire at the foot of a great tree, that stood in the midst of a grassy interval, or plat, among the rocks.
— from Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving

For it's like we may fa' in wi' some o' his unfreends—there are e'en ower mony o' them about—and his bonnet sits even on his brow yet for a' that; but I doubt they'll be upsides wi' Rob at the last—air day or late day, the fox's hide finds aye the flaying knife.
— from Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Walter Scott

'The furst and the fairest fourmet was Dardan.'
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer

All peace and some fatigue, wherever we were nursed To life, we bosom us on death, find last is first And thenceforth final too.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

“Your Grace has but to speak your wishes, and the nymphs of the Tay are as favourable as the fair ones upon the shore.
— from The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day by Walter Scott

As it was, he escaped detection, and once more breathed freely as their footsteps sounded fainter and fainter in the distance.
— from The Flamingo Feather by Kirk Munroe