She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail-down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, ‘Wipe you feet, dear, when you come in, and now we’ll keep house.’
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

But the weakness of Honorius, and the calamities of his reign, disqualified him from prosecuting this natural claim; and such was the absolute separation of the two monarchies, both in interest and affection, that Constantinople would have obeyed, with less reluctance, the orders of the Persian, than those of the Italian, court.
— 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

Some of his occupations wrought less desirably upon him.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

His object was literary.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Get you gone; Put on a most importunate aspect, A visage of demand; for I do fear, When every feather sticks in his own wing, Lord Timon will be left a naked gull, Which flashes now a phoenix.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

They testified that Harlamov lived “well” with his old woman, like anyone else; that he never beat her except when he had had a drop; that on the ninth of June when the sun was setting the old woman had been found in the porch with her skull broken; that beside her in a pool of blood lay an axe.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"A fine schooner called George the Fourth was launched here on Wednesday last.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

For you must know, worshipful Father, that while She talked thus, She held the plate in her hand, on which lay the identical roast Fowl.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

So long as the Company took over the revenue, the Nawab and his officials were left to govern the people, and administer law and justice, according to their own will and pleasure.
— from India Under British Rule from the Foundation of the East India Company by James Talboys Wheeler

In this way he obtained what looked like gold-dust.
— from Historic Adventures: Tales from American History by Rupert Sargent Holland

it is pretty hard on a man when his own wife lets him know that she don’t think he can support her!”
— from The Job: An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis

On week-days, Willson was often to be seen, like any other industrious yeoman, driving into town his own waggon, loaded with the produce of his farm; dressed in home-spun, as the "borel folk" of Yonge Street generally were: in the axis of one eye there was a slight divergency.—The expression "Family Compact" occurring above, borrowed from French and Spanish History, appears also in the General Report of Grievances, in 1835, where this sentence is to be read: "The whole system [of conducting Government without a responsible Executive] has so long continued virtually in the same hands, that it is little better than a family compact."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Springs of the most beautiful water were frequent by the roadside, and constantly bubbling up, without noise or motion, through the purest sand, though heaven only was looking upon them; and a single leaf from our memorandum-book, formed into the shape of a grocer's twist as wanted, served us as a drinking-cup throughout the journey.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424 Volume 17, New Series, February 14, 1852 by Various

In the latter body the members sit with their hats on, write letters and read newspapers, whilst one of their members is addressing the chair, or the speaker is putting the question.
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 4, December, 1834 by Various

And adjoining the extremity of the labyrinth is a pyramid, forty orgyæ in height, on which large figures are carved, and a way to it has been made under ground.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus Being Parts of the History of Herodotus, Edited for Boys and Girls by Herodotus

His eagerness and obvious incapacity so amused the gay company in the machine, that they cheered him on with laughter and ridicule.
— from Hunting with the Bow & Arrow by Saxton T. (Saxton Temple) Pope