Her face was confused and troubled, she seemed to be thinking, or trying to think.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

That final word came forth with the minister's expiring breath.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame Had spread their cursed deed, the honour’d name Of Pericles, to rage the city turn, That him and his they in his palace burn.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The Philippines at first were called “The Islands of the West,” as they are considered to be occidental and not oriental.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

For while Copernicus has persuaded us to believe, contrary to all the senses, that the earth does NOT stand fast, Boscovich has taught us to abjure the belief in the last thing that "stood fast" of the earth—the belief in "substance," in "matter," in the earth-residuum, and particle-atom: it is the greatest triumph over the senses that has hitherto been gained on earth.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A few hours after, the house took fire (the owner, after his prayers upstairs, had left a light in his room), and the people in the town think that the fire was caused by my having noticed the house.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

675 Longinus a Greek critic of the third century A.D., who composed a famous work called A Treatise on the Sublime .
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Siddhpur, Modasa, [42] and other towns shared the same fate; and he was in full march to Surat, when the benevolence of the Rana, touched at the woes of the fugitives, who came to demand his forbearance, caused him to recall Bhim in the midst of his career.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Suddenly recollecting the story of young Jolyon, however, he felt a little comforted, for what could you expect with a father like that!
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

So, in this book, we find what Cooper, Miss Sedgwick and Mrs. Kirkland, might see, as the writer did, but could hardly believe in enough to speak of it with such fidelity.
— from Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller

my fine fellow, what cloud did you drop from?—We have had so many reports concerning you, that your appearance is as much a matter of surprise, as would be that of Bonaparte, himself.
— from Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

Behind this long line the village streets and the adjacent fields were crammed with nearly everything on wheels belonging to our army—ambulances, artillery carriages and army wagons to the number of about 800 vehicles.
— from The Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee read after the stated meeting held February 2d, 1907 by John K. Shellenberger

By the brilliance of her conversational powers she had attracted to her side St. Just, who afterward obtained such sanguinary notoriety; Malesherbes, the eloquent and intrepid advocate of royalty; Lalande, the venerable astronomer; Marmontel and Lagrange, illustrious mathematicians, and others, whose fame was circulating through Europe.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

Not that he has made a "realistic" translation,—so far we conceive him to be entirely right; but that, by dint of pushing sheer literalism beyond its proper limits, he has too often failed to be truly realistic.
— from The Unseen World, and Other Essays by John Fiske

No historian or military critic can read the story of the operations which followed without coming to the conclusion that they were characterized by the most remarkable series of successes ever gained by cavalry in modern warfare.
— from Was General Thomas Slow at Nashville? With a Description of the Greatest Cavalry Movement of the War and General James H. Wilson's Cavalry Operations in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia by Henry V. (Henry Van) Boynton

Those three fellows who came in just now?
— from The Helpers by Francis Lynde

Usually when the weekly figures reach six or seven hundred, it is in a hot autumn, and the cause is infantile diarrhoea, represented in the bills by the excessive number of deaths from “griping in the guts” and “convulsions;” more rarely, and then only for three or four weeks, correspondingly high figures are reached in a season of influenza.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

LONDON: Printed by Couchman and Fry , Throgmorton-Street, For W. CURTIS, at his Botanic-Garden , Lambeth-Marsh; And Sold by the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland.
— from The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 03 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed by William Curtis