Further on, within the zone of danger, nothing of human habitation remained except here and there a pile of frozen bricks or a blackened cellar choked with snow.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

This duty performed, and his repast ended, he again betook himself to Bevis Marks.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Beyond rose a steep ascent, which we climbed not without fatigue, to find ourselves on the top of a tableland running away to the sea on our right, while on the left hills rose ever higher and higher above the road, being cultivated up to their summits in tiny level plots cut out of their sides.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

To him he adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion, with all the locks and keys, into his custody; and indeed makes the very person of that man his religion; esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

he exclaimed, “he is a good youth, and my heart bleeds to see the gore trickle down his rich embroidered hacqueton, and his corslet of goodly price—but to carry him to our house!—damsel,
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

And, obviously only now for the first time struck by an idea, he recounted eagerly how, at his last interview with Mitya that evening under the tree, on the road to the monastery, Mitya had struck himself on the breast, “the upper part of the breast,” and had repeated several times that he had a means of regaining his honor, that that means was here, here on his breast.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Thither came Ware, the architect, who, when a little sickly boy, was apprenticed to a chimney-sweeper, and was seen chalking the street-front of Whitehall, by a gentleman who purchased the remainder of the boy's time; gave him an excellent education; then sent him to Italy, and, upon his return, employed him, and introduced him to his friends as an architect.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

She bears a hard reputation even here, and adds to her many evil accomplishments the special one of adroit robbery.
— from Cast Adrift by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

During the first three years after the founding of San Rafael, nearly six hundred neophytes were transferred to the new establishment, and in 1828 its population had reached eleven hundred and forty.
— from On Sunset Highways: A Book of Motor Rambles in California by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

His lungs had never been strong; and the slight cough, which, contrary to his usual habits, he had neglected all the summer, had been the token of mischief, which his recent expedition had aggravated to a fearful extent.
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Gerald tried to remember, with [Pg 329] only partial success, what Franklin's professional interests were; people's professional interests had rarely engaged his attention.
— from Franklin Kane by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

She is deeply conscious that He has richly endowed her, and that she is as nothing compared with Him; but instead of proudly dwelling upon what she has done through Him, she would fain that it were possible for her to be the giver and Him the receiver.
— from Union and Communion; or, Thoughts on the Song of Solomon by James Hudson Taylor

On the 5th of October Prince Charles landed at Portsmouth, his romantic escapade happily at an end.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 04 (of 15), English by Charles Morris