Sometimes I leaped over a crevasse whose depth would have made me recoil had I been in the midst of glaciers on shore; sometimes I ventured out on a wobbling tree trunk fallen across a gorge, without looking down, having eyes only for marveling at the wild scenery of this region.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

I tried the dining-room, and discovered Samuel with a biscuit and a glass of sherry, silently investigating the empty air.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

From merely hearing them utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

However finespun the conceptions may be which the historical [Pg 9] critic uses in working over his materials, the final goal of such study is always to create out of the mass of events a vivid portrait of the past.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In other castes it is believed that a child born with the cord round its neck will be a curse to its maternal uncle, unless a gold or silver string is placed on the body, and the uncle sees its image reflected in a vessel of oil.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Commissioner Pett at last came to our lodging, and caused the boats to go off; so some in one boat and some in another we all bid adieu to the shore.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

There are a few more grains of sound sense in their works.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England by Georg Brandes

But the God of Spring said, “I stay here.”
— from Japanese Fairy Tales by Grace James

After sundry soft taps, and a shuffle of the handle, the door was opened quietly, and a little girl came dancing in, bringing a gleam of summer sunshine in a cloud of golden hair.
— from Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Lo, I'm as a camel lightened of fifty loads, and the glory of Shagpat see I as a new sun rising in the desert.
— from The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 4 by George Meredith

After these vapors have been given off superheated steam is provided to assist in distilling.
— from Aviation Engines: Design—Construction—Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pagé

As Burdette says: "Often a working guild of some sort is brought into existence for a specific but transient purpose; the object accomplished, the work completed, the society disbands, or merges into some other organization, or reorganizes under a new name for some new work.
— from Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in America The Work and the Man by Agnes Rush Burr

On April 20 this officer communicated a proposal of co-operation to Don Ignacio Pesqueira, Governor of Sonora, saying: "If your excellency will put a few hundred men into the field on the first day of next June, and keep them in hot pursuit of the Apaches of Sonora, say for sixty or ninety days, we will either exterminate the Indians or so diminish their numbers that they will cease their murdering and robbing propensities and live at peace."
— from The North American Indian, Vol. 1 by Edward S. Curtis

‘This must not go on,’ she said imploringly.
— from Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy