This labour we had accomplished by 3 P.M. and established our camp a little above the present Skil-lute village which has been removed a few hundred yards lower down the river than when we passed them last fall and like others below have the floors of their summer dwellings on the surface of the earth instead of those cellars in which they resided when we passed them.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Thy words Attentive, and with more delighted ear, Divine instructer, I have heard, than when Cherubick songs by night from neighbouring hills Aereal musick send: Nor knew I not To be both will and deed created free; Yet that we never shall forget to love Our Maker, and obey him whose command Single is yet so just, my constant thoughts Assured me, and still assure: Though what thou tellest Hath passed in Heaven, some doubt within me move, But more desire to hear, if thou consent, The full relation, which must needs be strange, Worthy of sacred silence to be heard; And we have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey, and scarce begins His other half in the great zone of Heaven.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Thy words Attentive, and with more delighted eare Divine instructer, I have heard, then when Cherubic Songs by night from neighbouring Hills Aereal Music send: nor knew I not To be both will and deed created free; Yet that we never shall forget to love 550 Our maker, and obey him whose command Single, is yet so just, my constant thoughts Assur'd me and still assure: though what thou tellst Hath past in Heav'n, som doubt within me move, But more desire to hear, if thou consent, The full relation, which must needs be strange, Worthy of Sacred silence to be heard; And we have yet large day, for scarce the Sun Hath finisht half his journey, and scarce begins His other half in the great Zone of Heav'n.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

"Ah, well!" said she to him, "you love desperately Miss Cunegonde of Thunder-ten-Tronckh?"
— from Candide by Voltaire

But him you love, do you not?"
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

[2] juntándose algunos de ellos; porque precipitándose entonces de improviso sobre el becerro, le rodean con las alas abiertas, le pican los ojos para que no pueda huir, y le destrozan en un momento.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

73 “What you doing here, you low down scow-hunker?
— from Vanderdecken by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

—On this day he wrote a further letter to the Queen of Holland (No. 12,761 of the Correspondence ): "My daughter, I have your letter dated Orleans.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

He saw his own figure, small and alive, as he might have looked at some quite other person into whose nature he had been gifted with the power to see clearly, not as himself younger, less developed.
— from Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

About fifty or sixty bullocks belonging to a tea-caravan were being driven across by men and women who were pelting them with stones until they leapt into the torrent, to emerge half dead and prostrate from fright and exhaustion about two hundred yards lower down.
— from From Pekin to Calais by Land by Harry De Windt

"It seems to have been prompted by a hint you let drop, which Tom has passed to Bella and Fulkerson."
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete by William Dean Howells