Gimínù siya kay gitiáwan sa ingkantu; He couldn’t find his way because a spirit cast a spell on him.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I have known him do it," says Grandfather Smallweed incautiously, "twenty times."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

So he being to go down to Erith with them this afternoon about giving security, I advised him to let them go by land, and so he and I (having eat something at his house) by water to Erith, but they got thither before us, and there we met Mr. Seymour, one of the Commissioners for Prizes, and a Parliament-man, and he was mighty high, and had now seized our goods on their behalf; and he mighty imperiously would have all forfeited, and I know not what.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Ashwell and I dined below together, and a pretty girl she is, and I hope will give my wife and myself good content, being very humble and active, my cook maid do also dress my meat very well and neatly.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Odin, who had been the leading spirit in all these undertakings, now bade the gods, his descendants, follow him to the broad plain called Idawold, far above the earth, on the other side of the great stream Ifing, whose waters never froze.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Then followed the strangest silence—a silence of grisly suspense it was, too—waiting, expectancy, fear.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

They were ladies of lofty ambition, who for that reason were incapable of taking the least interest in what might be called the 'pinchbeck' things of life, even when they had an historic value, or, generally speaking, in anything that was not directly associated with some object aesthetically precious.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Helen has taken the second great step in her education.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

There seemed to him to be no root to his life, no place for him to get satisfied in.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

THE EXPLETIVE METHOD ( blood-letting ) has been advocated by some of the best authorities, and there cannot be a doubt but that it must have rendered good service in cases of violent reaction, or else men like de Haen, Wendt, Willan, Morton, Alcock, Dewees, Dawson, Dewar, Hammond, &c., would not have pronounced themselves in favor of it.
— from Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms by Charles Munde

Detached fragments of others were found in the rubbish, and from them I ascertained that the whole gallery had been occupied by one continuous series, representing the different processes adopted by the Assyrians in moving and placing various objects used in their buildings, and especially the human-headed bulls, from the first transport of the huge stone in the rough from the quarry, to the raising of these gigantic sculptures in the gateways of the palace-temples.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

One of the wolves kicked over upon the ice, and lay quite dead; but the others, to Lucien’s great surprise, instead of being frightened off, immediately sprang upon their dead companion, and commenced tearing and devouring it, just as they had done the deer!
— from The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North by Mayne Reid

One person sets forth to sail in open water, perhaps to the very Pole, but gets stuck in the ice and laments; another is prepared to get stuck in the ice, but will not grumble even should he find open water.
— from Farthest North, Vol. I Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

The admiral shook his long spy-glass at me, and said, “By God, sir, if ever you give Pompey a bit of hide again, I will flog you.”
— from Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat

The degeneration of the Germanic spirit is ascribed to its influence.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The sentinel from the block-house immediately fired, and with effect, while the men got safely in.
— from Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest by Kinzie, John H., Mrs.

Yet, though he carried this to the extreme of excluding any divine authorship, he did good service in leading the way to the historical study of the Bible.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong