For her short poisonous delights had spoiled for ever all the little joys that had once made the sweetness of her life—the new frock ready for Treddleston Fair, the party at Mr. Britton's at Broxton wake, the beaux that she would say “No” to for a long while, and the prospect of the wedding that was to come at last when she would have a silk gown and a great many clothes all at once.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Twelve Hundred slain Patriots, do they not, from their dark catacombs there, in Death's dumb-shew, plead ( O ye Legislators ) for vengeance?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

But just so do all creeds, intentions, customs, knowledges, thoughts and things, which the French have, suddenly plump down; Catholicism, Classicism, Sentimentalism, Cannibalism: all isms that make up Man in France, are rushing and roaring in that gulf; and the theorem has become a practice, and whatsoever cannot swim sinks.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

when we arrived within a hundred yards of each other the indians except one halted I directed the two men with me to do the same and advanced singly to meet the indian with whom I shook hands and passed on to those in his rear, as he did also to the two men in my rear; we now all assembled and alighted from our horses; the Indians soon asked to smoke with us, but I told them that the man whom they had seen pass down the river had my pipe and we could not smoke untill he joined us.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But we further agreed that he should pull down the blind in that part of his window which gave upon the east, whenever he saw us and all was right.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A ball of fine-grained clay slate (Fig. 144 ) found at Freelands, near Glasterlaw, Forfarshire, has six projecting discs of slight convexity arranged upon its surface; but the discs are small in proportion to the size of the ball and the interspaces wide.
— from Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron Age by Joseph Anderson

" "Then you keep away from there," he said, pointing due west.
— from The Shades of the Wilderness: A Story of Lee's Great Stand by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

I accept it as a simple and childlike testimony to the truth of which the whole Gospel has been bearing witness, that the acts of the Son of God do not belong to the few years in which He dwelt visibly upon earth, but to all ages from the beginning, when He was ' with God, and was God ,' even to the end ' when He shall put down all rule and all authority and power, and when the Son also Himself shall be subject to Him, who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all .'
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice

All my life I had moved in the highest circles of society, surrounded by the best and purest of both sexes, and now, here I was, in the deplorable condition of having been hurled from that high social position, down to the low degraded plane of a convict.
— from The Twin Hells A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and Missouri Penitentiaries by John N. (John Newton) Reynolds

Oh! we have had some precious disclosures in our corner of the car!
— from The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Achilles by chance had seen Polyxena, daughter of King Priam, perhaps on the occasion of the truce which was allowed the Trojans for the burial of Hector.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch