I told her I daily expected some Bibles and Testaments from London, and that as soon as they arrived I should be most happy to supply her with one.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

That time my foot was festering I had it doctored ever so long.
— from Fruits of Culture by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Had the accident been deferred until the vessel was on the point of entering the passage through the reef, the yacht would undoubtedly have been flung by the sea upon the sharp coral and dashed to pieces; when the furious surf, which was at that moment foaming and swirling over the reef, and to which Jack directed Villacampa’s attention, must have inevitably drowned every soul on board.
— from The Cruise of the Thetis: A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Harry Collingwood

"This little woman's heart is deeply engaged," she resumed.
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant

The hostility between Yahveh and the heathen gods has its deep ethical significance in the struggle of chastity against licentiousness, to which the religious sanction brings reinforcement.
— from The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam

The hubbub is deafening, everybody shouts at once, and, above the din, you can hear the piercing shrieks of the half-strangled fowl.
— from Cuba Past and Present by Richard Davey

Many days afterward, when it was certain that the little foreign image-vender had indeed departed, Eve stole over to the bench beneath the lofty arches of the elm-tree, all checkered with flickering sunlight, and endeavored to read the sentence carved thereon.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various