She took breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she was obliged to pause.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

[65] For the time being Germany's transport system will be much more seriously disordered by the provisions relating to the cession of rolling-stock.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

This alone, I was convinced, had driven him out to the edge of the forest, to the bush, towards the gleam of fires, the throb of drums, the drone of weird incantations; this alone had beguiled his unlawful soul beyond the bounds of permitted aspirations.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

For then the bold and coward, The wise and fool, the artist and unread, The hard and soft, seem all affin’d and kin.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The Ch`in general was overjoyed, and attributed his adversary's tardiness to the fact that the beleaguered city was in the Han State, and thus not actually part of Chao territory.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

I felt this to be true; though if I may venture to mention what I thought besides, I thought it much to be regretted that Richard's education had not counteracted those influences or directed his character.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Knotting on threads on to a picot heading (fig. 518 ) —First, crochet a row of chain stitches, then make flat double knots on the chain, far enough apart for the thread between to form picots on the chain, then a second chain of crochet drawn through the picots on one side, on to which tie triple or quadruple lengths of thread, as shown in the engraving. Fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

The highest building, the largest steamer, the fastest train, the book reaching the widest circulation have, in America, a clear title to respect.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

At this his relations were sore amazed; not for that they believed that what he had said to them was true, but because they thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head; therefore, it drawing towards night, and they hoping that sleep might settle his brains, with all haste they got him to bed.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

As the rope had been fastened to the boat there was no longer necessity for the crew to strain at the oars, consequently they were at liberty to assist in caring for those sent down by the steamer's crew, working under the direction of a cool, level-headed captain.
— from Darry the Life Saver; Or, The Heroes of the Coast by Frank V. Webster

“It will be your Charge,” wrote Betty, “so far as in you lies, to render them not merely the Graces, as my Father terms them, but the true and faithful Guardian to these Infant Spirits.
— from Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The recent one was taken just a week or so before I broke down in my long illness & when I was struggling against a terrible sense of inward prostration; so it has not my natural expression, but I think you will like to have [it] rather than none, & the weather here is too gloomy for there to be any chance of a good one if I were to try again.
— from The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman

It will keep them from falling to the bottom.
— from Things Mother Used to Make A Collection of Old Time Recipes, Some Nearly One Hundred Years Old and Never Published Before by Lydia Maria Gurney

The hair arranged in short curls, and small gauze wings, ornamented with spangles, fastened to the back of the waist.
— from Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head

The peak for these two birds is most nearly coincident with that for grassland species, a category to which the Burrowing Owl might well be relegated.
— from The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Richard F. Johnston

Small merchant vessels do go into the Port, and often pay for their temerity by being totally wrecked.
— from Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Biddulph, Elizabeth Philippa, Baroness

But twice or thrice in the year the worthy couple made a more imposing gathering at the King's House, and killed the fatted calf, and made a solemn feast to the big wigs and the notables of Chapelizod, with just such a sprinkling of youngsters as sufficed to keep alive the young people whom they brought in their train.
— from The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Chilonycteris parnellii mexicana Miller.—One specimen (54934) from 10 mi. W, 2 mi. S Piedra, 1200 ft., Tamaulipas, taken by Gerd H. Heinrich, on June 13, 1953, extends the known range of this species 76 miles east-northeast (Goodwin, 1954:4), previously the most northern recorded occurrence in northeastern Mexico.
— from Extensions of Known Ranges of Mexican Bats by Sydney Anderson