What a long, long time had elapsed, reckoning by events, since he sailed away from the white cliffs of England.
— from The Sauciest Boy in the Service: A Story of Pluck and Perseverance by Gordon Stables

Here everything ran by electricity, and when you touched it there was a shock, which was unnatural.
— from Hex by Laurence M. Janifer

His hag-like dam also [Pg 80] regarded us with suspicion and disfavor, I could note, and I saw her glance from me to her son, making mental comparisons; and guessed she had heard explanations regarding black eyes which did not wholly satisfy her.
— from The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive by Emerson Hough

With rage difficultly disguised without, but wholly ungovernable within, Mrs Ireton would instantly have revenged what she considered as the most heinous affront that she had ever received, by expelling its author ignominiously from her house, but for the still sharpened curiosity with which her pretentions to penetration became piqued, from the general cry of 'How very extraordinary that Mrs Ireton has never been able to discover who she is!'
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 3 of 5) by Fanny Burney

He does not wash all over much oftener than his English rural brother, except in the hot weather if there is a river within reach.
— from India and the Indians by Edward Fenton Elwin

Co. Sligo, George Vaughan Jackson, Esq., D.L., R.M. Fox, Esq., D.L., Edward Cane, Esq., Charles Hamilton, Esq., Charles S. Monck, Esq., William Monsell, Esq., Thomas S. Carter, Esq., Charles W. Hamilton, Esq., Richard Bourke, Esq., Fetherstone Haugh O'Neill, Esq., John Vernon, Esq., George Lendrum, Esq., Francis Latouche, Esq., Peter Latouche, Esq., John Robert Godley.— Report of House of Lords on Colonization from Ireland, p. 168.
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon

Still, the thought of the bad quarter of an hour which it might come to at noon did cross Ballard’s mind, raising the image of a column in the morrow’s paper: “An unfortunate occurrence has ended relations between esteemed gentlemen hitherto the warmest personal friends....
— from Red Men and White by Owen Wister

If the last negotiations of his expiring reign be examined with due attention and impartiality it will appear evident that the causes of his fall arose out of his character.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

[Pg 280] which have either recently become extinct, or still flourish, may claim a share.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 5 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

Not that I've heard Abner has experienced religion, but everybody's surprised at the good way he's conductin' this fall.”
— from New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin