At the point where the Montmartre sewer joins the Grand Sewer, two other subterranean galleries, that of the Rue de Provence, and that of the Abattoir, form a square.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Immeasurable, manifold; as the sound of outbreaking waters: wise were he who knew what to do in it,—if not to fly to the mountains, and hide himself? How an ideal, all-seeing Versailles Government, sitting there on such principles, in such an environment, would have determined to demean itself at this new juncture, may even yet be a question.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Exeunt THE END 1594 H2 anchor THE TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS Dramatis Personae SATURNINUS, son to the late Emperor of Rome, afterwards Emperor BASSIANUS, brother to Saturninus TITUS ANDRONICUS, a noble Roman MARCUS ANDRONICUS, Tribune of the People, and brother to Titus Sons to Titus Andronicus: LUCIUS QUINTUS MARTIUS MUTIUS YOUNG LUCIUS, a boy, son to Lucius PUBLIUS, son to Marcus Andronicus Kinsmen to Titus: SEMPRONIUS CAIUS VALENTINE AEMILIUS, a noble Roman Sons to Tamora: ALARBUS DEMETRIUS CHIRON AARON, a Moor, beloved by Tamora A CAPTAIN A MESSENGER A CLOWN TAMORA, Queen of the Goths LAVINIA, daughter to Titus Andronicus A NURSE, and a black CHILD Romans and Goths, Senators, Tribunes, Officers, Soldiers, and Attendants SCENE: Rome and the neighbourhood ACT 1.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Nadya had begun to be very homesick and thought every day of her mother and her grandmother; she thought of Sasha too.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Arthur loved another maid, and bade us be of good cheer and hold fast to the hope that delay and luck together would some day give success to our several causes.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

“He has run away with an old gentleman,” said the other stranger breathlessly, “a poor old gentleman with white hair!”
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

All the violence we have committed amounts to this, that our sick folk are quartered under cover, paying for their expenses, and we keep a sentry at the gates, so that our sick and wounded may not lie at the mercy of your governor, but we may have it in our power to remove them whenever we like.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

"The Ottawa debate gave great satisfaction to our side.
— from Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 2 (of 2) by William Henry Herndon

Among the first prominent structures to topple and fall was the Wilberforce Monument, and then, in rapid succession, shots carried away another dome of the Dock Office, and the great square towers of St. John's and Holy Trinity Churches.
— from The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux

Blumenthall glanced meaningly at Kent—and Fred De Garmo, sitting to one side of his saddle, looked at Polycarp Jenks and smiled slightly.
— from Lonesome Land by B. M. Bower

However, every one had got so tired of scraping along, cooking and foraging for themselves on the journey up, that any sort of plan by which some one else would do the work was not to be refused, even if we were to be done over it.
— from A Kut Prisoner by Harry Coghill Watson Bishop

I’m not thinking seriously of trying it, Giraffe,” said the other, sweetly.
— from The Boy Scouts on War Trails in Belgium; Or, Caught Between Hostile Armies by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

“‘I went to town to get some toddy.’” “‘Oh! Sally Brown.’” “‘T’wasn’t fit for any body.’” “‘Oh! Sally Brown.’” “Out there, and clear away the jib.”
— from Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat

In several parts of the sandy beaches, and sand hills near the sea, we found purslain, and a kind of bean that grows upon a stalk, which creeps along the ground: The purslain we found very good when it was boiled, and the beans are not to be despised, for we found them of great service to our sick: The best greens, however, that could be procured here, were the tops of the coccos, which have been mentioned already, as known in the West Indies by the name of Indian kale : These were, in our opinion, not much inferior to spinnage, which in taste they somewhat resemble; the roots indeed are not good, but they might probably be meliorated by proper cultivation.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr