Staggering along in Frome's wake I floundered toward it, and in the darkness almost fell into one of the deep drifts against the front of the house.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Until this period not a foot of territory had been alienated.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Aside from toasting the bride and its glass-smashing result, the groom's farewell dinner is exactly like any other "man's dinner," the details depending upon the extravagance or the frugality of the host, and upon whether his particular friends are staid citizens of sober years or mere boys full of the exuberance of youth.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened—there came a fierce breath of the whirlwind—the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight—my brain reeled as I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder—there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters—and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the “ House of Usher .”
— from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

But above all, they are magnetised by the application of his hands and the pressure of his fingers on the hypochondres and on the regions of the abdomen; an application often continued for a long time—sometimes for several hours.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

D’Artagnan, who was known as a familiar of the house, went straight to his office, and sent word that he wished to see him on something of importance.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

I will not describe either the agitations, tremblings, palpitations, convulsionary emotions, nor faintings of the heart, I continually experienced; these may be judged of by the effect her image alone made upon me.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Now there was a court-yard in front of their house in which was a juniper-tree, and one day in winter the woman was standing beneath it, paring herself an apple, and while she was paring herself the apple she cut her finger, and the blood fell on the snow.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Sometimes he expatiated on the delicious flavor of the hagden, a greasy and goose-like fowl which the sailors catch with hook and line on the Grand Banks.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

It stands in front of the Hall and Library in Diamond Square, which I presented to Allegheny, and bears this inscription: To Colonel James Anderson, Founder of Free Libraries in Western Pennsylvania.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie

We shall then, in some sort, behold the revival of that age, the return of which the Roman bard invoked in favor of the human race:— "'The last great age foretold by sacred rhymes Renews its finished course; Saturnian times Roll round again; and mighty years, begun From this first orb, in radiant circles run.'"
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The old Fort Garry, one of the oldest factories of the Hudson’s Bay Company, has given place to the magnificent city of Winnipeg, with its own University, its own governing assembly, its own clubs, hotels, its own world-wide commercial interests, besides being the great centre of railway traffic in the country.
— from The Hound From The North by Ridgwell Cullum

Here and there a subdued snarl, or some snapping, is audible, but they are all converging on one point—the structure which as their scent informs them contains fresh blood; and the pointed ears and bared fangs of the hideous, blunt-snouted brutes, show plain in the moonlight.
— from Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford

291 Richelieu, Cardinal, I., widened Paris streets, 5 , 49 ; his theatre, 118 - 119 Robespierre, Maximilien, I., homes in Paris, 235 - 236 Rollin, Charles, historian, I., his residence unchanged, 99 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, I., traces of, in Paris, 205 - 206 Rue, d'Arras, I., 35 —— du Bac, I., 9 —— Boutebrie, I., mediæval staircase, 80 —— de Braque, I., 53 —— de la Bucherie, I., 80 —— du Cardinal-Lemoine, I., 32 , 35 , 43 —— Cassini, II., site of Balzac's house in, 62 —— Chanoinesse, I., 16 —— du Cimetière-Saint-Benoît, I., retains some ancient houses, 86 —— Clovis, I., contains fragment of wall of Philippe-Auguste, 35 , 79 —— Dauphine, I., tablet at No. 44, 33 —— Descartes, I., cottages on the wall of Philippe-Auguste, 35 —— du Dragon, II., Hugo's house in, 133 —— des Écoles, I., bronze statue of Dante, 83 —— Étienne-Marcel, I., contains last fragment of the Hôtel de Bourgogne, 51 —— de Fer-à-Moulin, I., contains fragment of Scipio Sardini's villa, 41 - 42 —— de la Ferronerie, I., scene of Henri IV.'s assassination, 4 , 48 , 106 —— François-Miron, II., balcony of the Louis XIV. period, 237 —— des Francs-Bourgeois, I., 52 - 53 ; II., relics of antiquity in, 260 et seq.
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 2 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin

Clumps of the ferns, drawing closer together, served as the advanced guard of a gloomy virgin forest on the horizon.
— from The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert by Gustave Aimard

"Then seven hundred francs will be most ample for three of you, to get mufti, railway tickets and tramp-steamer passages from Oran to Hamburg."
— from The Wages of Virtue by Percival Christopher Wren

The features of the hideous corpse could not be identified.
— from The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

" Her concern for concealment vanished entirely in her rising terror for the future of the Holy City.
— from The City of Delight: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Elizabeth Miller