Some ancient trees before the house were still cut into fashions as formal and unnatural as the hoops and wigs and stiff skirts; but their own allotted places in the great procession of the dead were not far off, and they would soon drop into them and go the silent way of the rest.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Marquis, where are you to be found?' 'As usual, at the Hotel de las Cisternas; But remember, that I am incognito, and that if you wish to see me, you must ask for Alphonso d'Alvarada.' 'Good!
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Feigning to be unmotherly, she spurred on her husband to grasp his freedom, and urged and tempted him to insurrection; causing her son to be summoned to Sweden with a promise of vast gifts.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

They had certainly, up to this moment, defended themselves bravely at all times, but found that all their endeavours were fruitless against us, although they had renewed the conflict three several times; we were invincible.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The longer he turned the matter over in his mind, the more excited he became; and, although he had told his father that he could enjoy the best night’s rest he had had for three weeks, he did not fall asleep until about two hours before he was called to breakfast.
— from The Mail Carrier by Harry Castlemon

I doubt whether, at this day, there exist twenty men in Europe who can be said to have even once read Demosthenes; and, therefore, it was that, when Mr. Mitford, in his "History of Greece," took a new view of this orator's political administration—a view which lowered his character for integrity—he found an unresisting acceder to his doctrines in a public having no previous opinion upon the subject, and, therefore, open to any casual impression of malice or rash judgment.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

The fact that in four years he would come in for some twelve thousand pounds was sufficient to prevent his feeling any uneasiness as to his future; and indeed in some respects it was not an unpleasant idea that, instead of being tied down to the estate, he should be able to wander at will, visit foreign countries, and make his own life.
— from Colonel Thorndyke's Secret by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He could not help being aware that he had long relinquished tastes customs, purposes, ideals, to gain a peace that seemed more and more fleeting and uncertain, and that he had submitted to others which, now that the moment of giving pleasure by his submission was past, he recognised as disagreeable.
— from April Hopes by William Dean Howells

My brother had done this merchant some trifling favours; and, upon application to him, he readily engaged to recommend the new scarlet dye.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

“We have just escaped being hanged by the Fenians themselves, Mrs. Bartlett, and I hope the same fate awaits us at the hands of the Canadians.”
— from In the Midst of Alarms by Robert Barr

According to his estimation, the island Unalashka lies between 1500 and 2000 versts due East from the mouth of the Kamtchatka river: the other islands to the Eastward stretch towards N. E. He reckons the length of Akutan at eighty versts; Umnak at an hundred and fifty, and Unalashka at two hundred.
— from Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China by William Coxe

My wealth may, after all, insure me some, if not all the advantages I so much coveted, and I may, really free and unshackled, attain the high station my panting soul has longed for.”
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer

In most of the houses there are tiny shops on the lower floors, and upstairs are the homes of the people.
— from Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb