I son and sire made each ’gainst each rebel: David and Absalom were fooled not more By counsels of the false Ahithophel.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

f, but, unlocking the door with great expedition, ran downstairs, and luckily accomplished his escape.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The successor of St. Peter administered his patrimony with the temper of a vigilant and moderate landlord; 73 and the epistles of Gregory are filled with salutary instructions to abstain from doubtful or vexatious lawsuits; to preserve the integrity of weights and measures; to grant every reasonable delay; and to reduce the capitation of the slaves of the glebe, who purchased the right of marriage by the payment of an arbitrary fine.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The successor of St. Peter administered his patrimony with the temper of a vigilant and moderate landlord; and the epistles of Gregory are filled with salutary instructions to abstain from doubtful or vexatious lawsuits; to preserve the integrity of weights and measures; to grant every reasonable delay; and to reduce the capitation of the slaves of the glebe, who purchased the right of marriage by the payment of an arbitrary fine.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

They raced along the pitch-dark tunnel, Campbell now carrying the girl, Ennis reeling drunkenly along.
— from The Door into Infinity by Edmond Hamilton

I was far away--Did he go?" exclaimed Richard de Ashby, now moved indeed.
— from Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Not that we were so badly off for socks, but washing ’em reg’lar, and never being able to get ’em really dry, and putting ’em on again like stones, was a mighty different thing to getting all our feet into something dry and warm.
— from We and the World: A Book for Boys. Part II by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

But at Rockstone they were delighted, for, close to the station, flowed the great Essequibo River, dark and mysterious, with its shores covered by the impenetrable tropic jungle.
— from The Radio Detectives in the Jungle by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

I can see the graceful figure, and the sweet smiling face, as the girl turned upon me the full force of her powerfully magnetic eyes, and with great earnestness replied: 'Dear Auntie, there is a story attached to that bracelet, and you shall hear it," and taking a seat beside me she began—— "Mamma always told us that you were an apt student in history, and of course you know the story of James the Fourth of Scotland and his iron belt, and how each year he added an ounce to its weight, that it might inflict the greater penance."
— from Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life by Rebecca Agatha Armour

[* See inter alia a report of a well-known functionary of the E.I.C., G. E. RUMPHUS, dated after 1685 in LEUPE Nieuw-Guinea, p. 86: "The Drooge bocht [shallow bay], where Nova-Guinea is surmised to be cut off from the rest of the Southland by a passage opening into the great South-Sea, though our men have been unable to pass through it owing to the shallows, so that it remains uncertain whether this strait is open on the other side.
— from The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 by J. E. (Jan Ernst) Heeres

The plates give every required dimension, and show each project complete and in detail.
— from Wood and Forest by William Noyes