Vergil had already forged a weapon of matchless music and eloquence in his surging hexameters, and he used it to depict the honest joys of rustic toil, the laborious tranquillity of the farm, the beauty and interest of nature.
— from The Grandeur That Was Rome by J. C. (John Clarke) Stobart

After the ceremony Janet will return to her job of running the Susan B. Anthony House; I shall return to my job of trying to make America safe for those who don't happen to be grafters, parasites, or profiteers.
— from The Love Chase by Felix Grendon

" Besides arranging the geological and mineralogical specimens, he had his 'Journal of Researches' to work at, which occupied his evenings at Cambridge.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

France owed five million dollars for damages to our commerce in Napoleon's wars, and, Napoleon himself being entirely worthless, having said every time that the bill was presented that he would settle it as soon as he got back from St. Helena, Jackson ordered reprisals to be made, but England acted as a peacemaker, and the bill was paid.
— from Comic History of the United States by Bill Nye

We see her just once, Rosita, the beautiful, the impulsive, the passionate; the next time she is dead.
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series by James Edmund Dunning

I have just one remark to make.
— from Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Josephine Chase

The latter was scarcely able to sit his mule—at length he jumped, or rather tumbled, oft, and pulled Twister out by the legs; who, the instant he could stand, and long before he could see for the mud that filled his eyes, started up the road like a demoniac, shouting, "Obeah, Obeah!"
— from The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. 2 of 2) by Michael Scott

— Account of Sir Charles's return from Windsor: his joy on restoring the worthy family of the Mansfields from oppression: his interview with his friend Beauchamp, at Sir Harry's; and cheerful behaviour at his sister's wedding, though his own heart is torn with uncertainty.
— from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson

It was a hard journey, over rocks that were sharp and slippery.
— from Dave Porter in the Far North; Or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy by Edward Stratemeyer