The little one is out of line and further damages the shape.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

A dozen foxes, a few wild boars, and even a jaguar, were taken in this way, the animals being found dead, their stomachs pierced by the unbent bones.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Dividing himself into four parts, he whose eyes resemble the lotus and the pulasa, the lotus petal-eyed, chose for his father Daśaratha the sovereign of men.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Assuming the same work would be accomplished every twelve hours, it would still take five nights and four days to see the undertaking through to completion.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

We had not been seated five minutes before Lord Orville, whom we saw in the stage-box, came to us; and he honoured us with his company all the evening; Miss Mirvan and I both rejoiced that Madam Duval was absent, as we hoped for the enjoyment of some conversation, uninterrupted by her quarrels with the Captain: but I soon found that her presence would have made very little alteration; for as far was I from daring to speak, that I knew not where even to look.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

— N. meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import, purport; force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

This Chace brought them to Leeward of their Port, so that they were obliged to look out for another Place of Retreat, and the Island of Ruby not being far distant, they steered for that, and anchored there accordingly; but the next Day a Dutch Sloop coming as it were, into their Mouths, they could not forbear dealing, and so making her their Prize, they plundered her of what came, when shared, to fifty Pounds a Man.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

He had sunk into a chair, his legs weak, stupefied, done up, waiting anxiously for “Devorant” to set up another howl, and starting convulsively from nervousness caused by terror.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Other men, on both political flanks, did the same thing, and did it well, less for selfish objects than for the amusement of the game; but Hay alone lived in Washington and in the centre of the Ohio influences that ruled the Republican Party during thirty years.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

She bore it very well, and quietly submitted to the family decree that she should not shorten her visit, for, since it was too late to say good-by to Beth, she had better stay, and let absence soften her sorrow.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Now the young eagle who had before dissuaded his father from devouring the serpent's young, again begged him to desist from his purpose.
— from Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria by Lewis Spence

Not even Sirius could be more fiercely devoted than she, who had to atone for her past injustice.
— from Everyman's Land by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Inconvenient as the absence at that time was to Captain Osborn, he at once acquiesced, and in a few days the schooner sailed for her destination.
— from Masterman Ready by Frederick Marryat

After that, thunder and lightning—gore—the brawlers driven into the street—the soldiers come up—and off we go to prison for disturbing the streets with our frays."
— from The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy by Marjorie Bowen

So far I have written at some length of our voyage, for it was these first days that set the stamp upon the relations of our little party.
— from A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet

I yelled at her, but she went flying down the street, and I saw that dog next door take off behind her.
— from Bimmie Says by Sydney J. Van Scyoc

Granting some chemists to have finally discovered the secret of fixing mercury or to make that alkahest by means of which Van Helmont boasted he could dissolve all matter: were they the wiser and happier for it?”
— from Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet

While we were thus engaged in the twilight, we heard faintly, from far down the stream, what sounded like two strokes of a woodchopper's axe, echoing dully through the grim solitude.
— from The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

Many unusual feats delighted the spectators.
— from The Romance of Aircraft by Laurence Yard Smith