So he threw open the parlor door, but it was not long before the mill had ground the parlor full too, and it was with difficulty and danger that the man could go through the stream of pottage and get hold of the door-latch.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

I hope you will adopt Grant's idea of turning Wilson loose, rather than undertake the plan of a march with the whole force through Georgia to the sea, inasmuch as General Grant cannot cooperate with you as at first arranged.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

By the following fact, some color was given to the suspicion thus thrown upon Beauvais.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

‘I shall die before I get to the syntax,’ I thought at the first page—and threw the book under the table.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Now while the people of Ashdod were under these misfortunes, and were not able to support themselves under their calamities, they perceived that they suffered thus because of the ark, and that the victory they had gotten, and their having taken the ark captive, had not happened for their good; they therefore sent to the people of Askelon, and desired that they would receive the ark among them.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He is likewise said to have recovered, when pro-praetor in the province of Gaul, the gold which was formerly given to the Senones, at the siege of the Capitol, and had not, as is reported, been forced from them by Camillus.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

To attain this end, and that he might nowhere perplex, or retard the reader or hearer, he made no scruple to add prepositions to his verbs, or to repeat the same conjunction several times; which, when omitted, occasion some little obscurity, but give a grace to the style.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The father, accompanied by a few relatives, goes to this spot and looks for the churinga which the ancestor is believed to have left at the moment that he reincarnated himself.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

A board of inquiry was sent by the United States Government to the scene of the disaster, and, after a careful investigation of a most thorough character, decided that the explosion was not internal and accidental but external and by design.
— from Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem. A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

The prisoners were remanded to the gaol till the spiritual courts were ready to take charge of them: they were kept carelessly, and escaped.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III by James Anthony Froude

Together Mr. Palmer and Mr. Sercombe raised their guns to their shoulders, and one of them fired.
— from What's Mine's Mine — Complete by George MacDonald

On the 14th of January, 1649, at Kirkton, he granted to the same person a bond for 500 merks; but at this date Hector was described as "indweller in Androry," and again, another dated at Stankhouse of Gairloch (Tigh Dige), 24th of November, 1662; but the lender of the money is on this occasion described as living in Diobaig.
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie

But Seleucus Nicator gave them to Sandrocottus in consequence of a marriage contract, and received in return five hundred elephants.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

"Dora," began Helen, "you will go to the seaside yet."
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Coopy agreed to work three years in Virginia and submit to the government of the hundred in return for which the owners were to transport him to Virginia and "There to maintayne him with convenient diet and apparell meet for such a servant, and in the end of the said terme to make him a free man of the said cuntry theirby to enjoy all the liberties, freedomes, and priviledges of a freeman there, and to grant to the said Robert thirty acres of land within their territory or hundred of Barkley...." The confusion over the question whether the indentured servant was entitled to fifty acres of land upon expiration of his service extended to the mother country.
— from Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Walter Stitt Robinson

Presently entered the "Rei dos Reis," Nessalla: the old man, whose appearance argued prosperity, was en grande tenue, the State costume of Tuckey's, not of Merolla's day.
— from Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

From Owl Gap to the Summit, a distance of twenty-four and a half miles, the average grade is 81, and the maximum 85 feet per mile.
— from Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James Fowler Rusling

Again the two contestants ran over the course, but this time Hugi gave Thialfi the start of half a mile.
— from Stories from Northern Myths by Emilie K. (Emilie Kip) Baker