It was a great and solemn sight, and never more so than at this time of year, when the only lights in the chapel were in the pulpit and at the seats of the praepostors of the week, and the soft twilight stole over the rest of the chapel, deepening into darkness in the high gallery behind the org
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

The carnage Juno from the skies survey'd, And touch'd with grief bespoke the blue-eyed maid: "Oh, sight accursed!
— from The Iliad by Homer

This way, if you please,’ said Squeers, who had by this time got back to the box by the fire-place.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

For those, who, by these signs and that wisdom, have deserved your belief, and who have proved to you their character, declare to you that nothing of all this can change you, and render you capable of knowing and loving God, but the power of the foolishness of the cross without wisdom and signs, and not the signs without this power.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

The beginnings of these popular dialects go back to a period of great antiquity.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

“No, she is going back to Queen’s next year.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The king's luck is great; and much honour will be gained by this business, if it succeed.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

To the Anglo-Saxon race is given the scepter of the globe, but there is not given either the lash of the slave-driver or the rack of the executioner.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

The quicker the roast, the better the coffee, is the opinion of many trade leaders, one of whom [325] says: It is a growing belief that in roasts of short duration the largest percentage of the aromatic properties is retained.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

When he had said this, and had set his army in order, he brought it against the city: so they went round the city again, the ark going before them, and the priests encouraging the people to be zealous in the work; and when they had gone round it seven times, and had stood still a little, the wall fell down, while no instruments of war, nor any other force, was applied to it by the Hebrews.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He knew how to get back to the catechism: " The suddenness of the attack, the —" "Stop it!"
— from The Men in the Walls by William Tenn

A few days later he was asked to a reception given by the Lotos to Wilkie Collins.
— from Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume 1 (of 2) With an Account of his Parliamentary Struggle, Politics and Teachings. Seventh Edition by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

"Lieutenant Lawton, wouldn't you give most anything, run nearly any chance, if you could get back to Washington in a few days?"
— from Madge Morton's Secret by Amy D. V. Chalmers

The campaign was opened with a victory gained by the duke of Cleves, Francis’s ally, over the forces of the emperor:
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume

"Well—I have it on pretty good authority—in fact, on old Catherine's herself—that the family reduced Countess Olenska's allowance considerably when she definitely refused to go back to her husband; and as, by this refusal, she also forfeits the money settled on her when she married—which Olenski was ready to make over to her if she returned—why, what the devil do YOU mean, my dear boy, by asking me what I mean?"
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

“I am come, said I, by your invitation, and the king’s leave, to pay my respects to you in your own government, begging that you would favour my curiosity so far as to suffer me to see the country of the Agows, and the source of the Abay, or Nile, part of which I have seen in Egypt.”
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

Just before dark we passed through a very picturesque gorge, where the stream ran through a deep narrow gateway between two enormous masses of rock, and beyond this found a nook to sleep in for the night where we should be protected from the wind.
— from A Kut Prisoner by Harry Coghill Watson Bishop

There was an inquisition in a freezing barn of a church, and Basil Grelott banished to perish amid the forest in his renewed quest for freedom....
— from The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete by Winston Churchill

They were comfortable, roomy cottages, looking down on the river, with gardens before them, which Mr. Morton intended to be as well stocked and as pretty as his own.
— from The Bushranger's Secret by Clarke, Henry, Mrs.

“Through this garden, by these statues, up these stairs, went the pale figure of him who, the porter said, knew the way of the house.
— from Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray