The old gentleman, the old lady, the pony, and the chaise, came up the street in perfect unanimity, until they arrived within some half a dozen doors of the Notary’s house, when the pony, deceived by a brass-plate beneath a tailor’s knocker, came to a halt, and maintained by a sturdy silence, that that was the house they wanted.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

But a hostile attack made by Alexander of Epirus on the Lucanians drew away the attention of the Samnites to another quarter; these two nations fought a pitched battle against the king, as he was making a descent on the district adjoining Pæstum.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

During the lengthy cleaning up and pattening process, when he and Mr. Bagnet are supplied with their pipes, he is no better than he was at dinner.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Dr. Johnson advised me to-day, to have as many books about me as I could; that I might read upon any subject upon which I had a desire for instruction at the time.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The hot-baths here are mentioned by Athenæus, and its waters were pleasant to the taste.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The count told her that he had received it from the old woman in the forest, who had appeared very strange to him, and must be a witch, but he had neither seen nor hear anything of the Queen's child.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

This his uncle seconded, and after laying down to him his duty to me, and what I expect of him, in a discourse of about a quarter of an houre or more, we agreed upon his going this week, towards the latter (end) of the week, and so dismissed him, and Mr. Blackburne and I fell to talk of many things, wherein I did speak so freely to him in many things agreeing with his sense that he was very open to me: first, in that of religion, he makes it great matter of prudence for the King and Council to suffer liberty of conscience; and imputes the losse of Hungary to the Turke from the Emperor’s denying them this liberty of their religion.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

His age might be about fifty, and he wore a short beard and moustache.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Never till then had a more brutal accusation or meaner insults tarnished kingly majesty.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The promises of this life are not your portion and inheritance, they are but superadded to your portion, so then we have as much beside, an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, as the world have for their inheritance, yea, and more sure and more sweet beside.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

For the redundant forms of many words in the foregoing list, as of abode or abided, awaked or awoke, besought or beseeched, caught or catched, hewed or hewn, mowed or mown, laded or laden, seethed or sod, sheared or shore, sowed or sown, waked or woke, wove or weaved , his authority may be added to that of others already cited.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

I fear that the Mures have done her a mischief, being afraid of the things that she might reveal.'
— from The Grey Man by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The distribution of a word in English dialects frequently helps to ascertain its real history, and may become a final test where those of form and meaning leave us in doubt.
— from Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Kindlings saw the ball coming toward him, and managed by a desperate effort, to get it in his arms.
— from A Quarter-Back's Pluck: A Story of College Football by Lester Chadwick

The eastern island is the longest, and may be a mile in length; the other two are about equal, both in size and height, and may be about a quarter of a mile in length.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 528, January 7, 1832 by Various

When the rising of the negroes took place, in 1791, Toussaint refused to join them until he had aided M. Bayou and his family to escape to Baltimore.
— from Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform, Complete Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

Diogenes, the grammarian, who used to hold public disquisitions, at Rhodes every sabbath-day, once refused him admittance upon his coming to hear him out of course, and sent him a message by a servant, postponing his admission until the next seventh day.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius by Suetonius