Day after day the races go on, and the fun and the excitement are kept at white heat; and when each day is done, the people dance all night so as to be fresh for the race in the morning.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

About three o’clock, while the sun was pouring down his burning rays, and not a breeze was stirring, I broke down; my strength failed me; I was seized with a violent aching of the head, attended with extreme dizziness, and trembling in every limb.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

About three o'clock of that day, I broke down; my strength failed me; I was seized with a violent aching of the head, attended with extreme dizziness; I trembled in every limb.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

The soldiers, who are bound to obey their officer only once a-week, or once a-month, and who are at all other times at liberty to manage their own affairs their own way, without being, in any respect, accountable to him, can never be under the same awe in his presence, can never have the same disposition to ready obedience, with those whose whole life and conduct are every day directed by him, and who every day even rise and go to bed, or at least retire to their quarters, according to his orders.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

True, I can write it with either hand; and what else do I want to know?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Weishaupt indeed, as we know, detested the Jesuits, 500 and took from them only certain methods of discipline, of ensuring obedience or of acquiring influence over the minds of his disciples; his aims were entirely different.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

that the same city which Cain built, and named after his son Enoch, may have had a widely extended dominion and many kings, not reigning simultaneously, but successively, the reigning king begetting always his successor.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Striking ideas we have, and well executed details we have; but that high symmetry which, with satisfying and delightful effect, combines them, we seldom or never have.
— from Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

And we all did the fullest justice to it, even the skipper making a hearty meal, although I believe it was not so much because he had a good appetite as that he had a very shrewd suspicion of what lay before him, and was exceedingly doubtful as to when he would next have the opportunity to sit down to a good, well-cooked meal.
— from Turned Adrift by Harry Collingwood

Whereupon he answered, with evident disgust: ‘Well, you’ll do .
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Another, a wife, and also her daughter, were at this time in frequent peril, because they had become Christians in heart, and were earnestly desiring Baptism.
— from A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker by Agnes Giberne

Once divided, and panic-stricken by finding their foes at the heart of their array, the herds went to pieces hopelessly, and were easily driven off toward all points of the compass.
— from Hoof and Claw by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

They were received by a packed house, and with every demonstration of welcome and approbation.
— from The Mormons and the Theatre; or, The History of Theatricals in Utah by John S. (John Shanks) Lindsay

“Friends and citizens,” the note ran, “Winship has absconded with every dollar in the vaults, except about two hundred dollars in my small safe.
— from Abner Daniel: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

Alfred Wentworth had not the slightest idea that Horace Awtry would ever dare to offend his wife, much less to offer infamous proposals, and on their being refused have her driven from the home he had placed her in.
— from The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Alex. St. Clair (Alexander St. Clair) Abrams