An attempt to facilitate his escape, by digging a mine under the tent, provoked the Mogul emperor to impose a harsher restraint; and in his perpetual marches, an iron cage on a wagon might be invented, not as a wanton insult, but as a rigorous precaution.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Therefore, why not wait in ambush for Conrad behind the door, and when he entered bring down a chair, or one of the decrepit pictures, smartly on to his head.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

A good deal of hospitality is, and has ever been, dispensed at Venice in the cafés and restaurants, which do service for the domestic hearth.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

She saw me, and straight sought the flood; I sav'd her, And set her safe to land: when presently She slipt away, and to the Citty made, With such a cry and swiftnes, that, beleeve me, Shee left me farre behinde her; three or foure I saw from farre off crosse her, one of 'em I knew to be your brother; where she staid, And fell, scarce to be got away: I left them with her, [Enter Brother, Daughter, and others.]
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I pushed it strongly—it was nevertheless firm: with all my strength—it still did not give way: with rage, with fury, with despair—it set at defiance my utmost efforts; and it was evident, from the unyielding nature of the resistance, that the hole had either been discovered and effectually nailed up, or that some immense weight had been placed upon it, which it was useless to think of removing.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I was in his hands; the path of his ambition had ever been dark and cruel; his power was founded upon fear; the one word which might cause me to die, unheard, unseen, in the obscurity of my dungeon, might be easier to speak than the deed of mercy to act.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He expects to rouse his emotion by drawing attention to his own.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All at once life takes on a higher and nobler meaning, and we are fired with a desire to do more than we have ever before done, and to be more than we have been in the past.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Y, en lugar de dirigirse al Oeste, o sea hacia el Boquete de Anghera, en busca del sabio santón, según había dicho a D. Bonifacio, tomó hacia el Sur, por un barranquillo tapado de malezas 15 y árboles silvestres, que muy luego le llevó al camino de Tetuán, [90-5] o bien a la borrosa vereda que, siguiendo las ondulaciones de puntas y playas, conduce a Cabo-Negro por el valle del Tarajar, por el de los Castillejos, por Monte-Negrón y por las lagunas de Río-Azmir, nombres que todo español bien nacido
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

There is not the slightest justification for thinking that Frau Cotta—who has erroneously been described as a young widow—acted from base motives in thus receiving the youth, nor for the tale of his charming her by his playing on the lute or the flute.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

He enjoys being dressed, and smiles at first, and then he suddenly remembers that he has not had his breakfast.
— from A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Cid well knew the advantage he would derive if he could triumph over the infidels in that first encounter, and prepared, therefore, to attack the enemy with greater impetuosity and valour than he had ever before displayed, although his men were inferior in numbers.
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

It has ever been domineering, arrogant, exacting, and overbearing.
— from The Great Conspiracy, Volume 6 by John Alexander Logan

[73] Make the chastest woman smell the flowers she likes best, he remarks, and she will close her eyes, breathe deeply, and, if very sensitive, tremble all over, presenting an intimate picture which otherwise she never shows, except perhaps to her lover.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis

As a loyal member of the party to whose principles he had ever been devotedly attached, and in the support of whose cause he had labored in every consistent capacity since becoming a voter, he finally yielded, accepted the nomination, and, as had been hoped, was duly elected along with the entire ticket.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884 by Various

Humboldt describes the view down the crater of the Rucu-Pichincha—a volcano which towers above the town of Quito to a height of 15,000 feet—as the grandest he ever beheld during all his long wanderings.
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig

And yet I hardly ever before did any thing in anger, that I did not repent in half an hour; and question myself in less that that time, whether I was right or wrong.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Samuel Richardson

To doubt her “unverified” assertion has even been declared an unpardonable sin.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage