Aunt Bulstrode, for example, came a little oftener into Lowick Gate to see Rosamond, now she was alone.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

"Such wealth," returned she, "that if you succeed in carrying it all away it will make you rich for ever. Come and let us see how much there is.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Round their Magnetic Mystery, which to the eye is mere tubs with water,—sit breathless, rod in hand, the circles of Beauty and Fashion, each circle a living circular Passion-Flower: expecting the magnetic afflatus, and new-manufactured Heaven-on-Earth.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

They are about 16 feet square, suspended by bamboos from each corner, and let down like buckets into the water, and then after a few minutes drawn up again.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

I rose from table before the rest, because under an obligation to go to my Lord Brouncker’s, where to meet several gentlemen of the Royal Society, to go and make a visit to the French Embassador Colbert, at Leicester House, he having endeavoured to make one or two to my Lord Brouncker, as our President, but he was not within, but I come too late, they being gone before:
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Good fortune, worthy soldier, and farewell. Enter CAESAR, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA ANTONY.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The stranger took no notice of the burgomaster’s wife——he was making a vow to Saint Nicolas ; which done, having uncrossed his arms with the same solemnity with which he crossed them, he took up the reins of his bridle with his left-hand, and putting his right hand into his bosom, with the scymetar hanging loosely to the wrist of it, he rode on, 146 Peregrinus mulo descendens stabulo includi, et manticam inferri jussit: quâ apertâ et coccineis sericis femoralibus extractis cum argento laciniato Περιζομαυτε, his sese induit, statimque, acinaci in manu, ad forum deambulavit.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Peregrinus mulo descendens stabulo includi, et manticam inferri jussit: qua aperta et coccineis sericis femoralibus extractis cum argento laciniato (Greek), his sese induit, statimque, acinaci in manu, ad forum deambulavit.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The terrible lowering of morals, the dishonesty and fraud easily condoned, and laughed over as a kind of shrewdness, were sad examples to set before the next generation.
— from Hope Mills; Or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda M. Douglas

Whereupon Polly, giving her hand a new little turn in his, expressive of settling down for enjoyment, commenced a long romance, of which every relishing clause began with the words: “So this” or “And so this.”
— from Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens

"—I should be glad to know the sense of the following epitaph, copied at Lavenham Church, Norfolk, many years since; it has long lain in my note-book, waiting for such a publication as "N. & Q.," through which to inquire its meaning: " John Weles , Ob. 1694.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 175, March 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

"And this first emotion comes at last to be awakened by the accidental, instead of, by the necessary antecedent.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Hereinto when we were entred, we saw three falles, whereof the first and greatest commeth from Vpweie by Bradweie, and Radipoole, receiuing afterward the second that ran from east Chekerell, and likewise the third that maketh the ground betwéene Weimouth and Smalmouth passage almost an Iland.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

But when they broke the seals upon his will, They found each codicil and long bequest Was held in trust until
— from Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country by DuBose Heyward

On the previous evening, the landlady of the Black Swan, a roadside public-house about four miles distant from the scene of the murder, reading the name of Pearce in the report of the trial in the Sunday county paper, sent for Johnston to state that that person had on the fatal evening called and left a portmanteau in her charge, promising to call for it in an hour, but had never been there since.
— from The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney by Samuel Warren

—Down a narrow street, where, “For example!” cried a little young lady in blue, laughing in J——’s very face—for we had turned full in front on a group of girls—while a child clapped her hands at sight of him, and a black dog snapped at his stockings.
— from Our sentimental journey through France and Italy A new edition with Appendix by Joseph Pennell

They brought forth now from each canoe a light frame-work of three bamboo poles, standards and cross-piece, and a thin, unbleached cotton "A" tent, and quickly pitched the four tents on a level piece of ground, in a semi-circle.
— from The Rival Campers Ashore; or, The Mystery of the Mill by Ruel Perley Smith