It did not seem that strife could be in the world, and Susan's faithful heart was lulled into a brief forgetfulness, although she had lain awake most of the preceding night thinking of little Jem far out on the Atlantic, where the great fleet was carrying Canada's first army across the ocean.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I trembled for the hour, which at length approached, when after a protracted breakfast of three hours—if stores of cold fowls, tongues, hams, botargoes, dried fruits, wines, cordials, &c., can deserve so meagre an appellation—the coach was announced, which was come to carry off the bride and bridegroom for a season, as custom has sensibly ordained, into the country; upon which design, wishing them a felicitous journey, let us return to the assembled guests.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Wreckers from San Francisco, whose capsule came up second, moved immediately into the city of the angels for the scrap steel their own flight would require.
— from The Marching Morons by C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth

As soon as Cortes saw what a sad turn affairs had taken, he spoke with much reserve, and answered the ambassadors in the most courteous manner possible, telling [Pg 197] them how greatly he was astonished that so powerful a monarch as Motecusuma should so often change his mind: in the meantime he begged of them to postpone their return until the following day, when he would be able to say in how far we could comply with their monarch's wishes.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The fortune which Captain Crewe supposed he had lost has been recovered, and is now in Mr. Carrisford's hands.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

X. 'Gainst this pitiless flame who condemned could prevail?
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

“You know all now, sir; but I entreat you not to judge me too severely; I have been virtuous all through my life; one month ago I had never committed a fault which could call a blush upon my face, and the bitter tears which I shed every day will, I hope, wash out my crime in the eyes of God.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Meg had an extra row of little curlpapers across her forehead, Jo had copiously anointed her afflicted face with cold cream, Beth had taken Joanna to bed with her to atone for the approaching separation, and Amy had capped the climax by putting a clothespin on her nose to uplift the offending feature.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The fisherman was completely changed in form.
— from Wonder Stories: The Best Myths for Boys and Girls by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Not less incorrect is the theory (for we can call it nothing else) of the head presenting with the vertex, and turning with its long diameter, from the oblique, into the antero-posterior or conjugate diameter, and the face into the hollow of the sacrum, for it is disproved by all the above-mentioned facts, which careful examination during labour puts us in possession of.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

In this journal we find the following entry on October 18th: "Dined in the fort with Col. Croghan and the officers of the garrison; supped there also, meeting with great civility from the gentlemen, and engaged to dine with Col. Croghan next day, at his seat about four miles up the Allegheny."
— from Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt; Early Names of Pittsburgh Streets by Pa.) Daughters of the American Revolution. Pittsburgh Chapter (Pittsburgh

Shot with gold and shadow, it laughed along, under a waving canopy of green, freckled with cool, clean pebbles and hiding roguishly now and then beneath a trailing branch.
— from Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple

Frank was courteous, cold, and resolute in presuming, or pretending to presume, that as a matter of course the marriage would take place.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

Pulchérie was Madame de Genlis's second daughter; the first was called Caroline, and had married M. de Lawoestine.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821 by Alexandre Dumas

For, as we shall now see, assassination was a familiar political weapon in Bulgaria before the arrival of Ferdinand, who can claim credit for remarkable improvements upon the crude methods in vogue before his era of subsidized slaughter.
— from Ferdinand of Bulgaria: The Amazing Career of a Shoddy Czar by Anonymous

She gave Scott no encouragement, but frequently, wrote him in a friendly way, chiefly concerning literary topics.
— from The Country of Sir Walter Scott by Charles S. (Charles Sumner) Olcott

If these are doctrines of oppression and despotism, we also are advocates for such oppression and despotism; for we cannot conceive doctrines more favorable to liberty.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes