the party who will accompany Capt L. is G. Drewyer, Sergt.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

We played croquet and tennis, then when it got dark, sat a long time over supper and talked again about schools, and about Balagin, who had the whole district under his thumb.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It was interesting enough at first, while we were at the phonetics; but after that I got deadly sick of it.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

After she came I got dreadful slack, and left the house and the children to Hen'retta, and went pleasurin' frequent all in my best.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

"I thought you might need a light," she said; "it grows dark so soon."
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Beside him stalks to battle The huge earth-shaking beast, The beast on whom the castle With all its guards doth stand, The beast who hath between his eyes The serpent for a hand.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Him he meets and chases down the plain, and, standing over his fallen foe, slaughters him and wraps him in great darkness; Serestus gathers the armour and carries it away on his shoulders, a trophy, King Gradivus, to thee.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The start it gave Donal set his heart shaking in his bosom.
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald

"I generally do," said Ben.
— from Ben, the Luggage Boy; Or, Among the Wharves by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

It took me two days and a half to haul up a load of stuff, mostly sunflower stalks, that I gathered down south.”
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

The building itself is one of the greatest piles in Europe, and on its hill towers above the surrounding country so that it is visible for 20 versts with 237 its golden dome shining in the summer sun.
— from The Russian Campaign, April to August, 1915 Being the Second Volume of "Field Notes from the Russian Front" by Stanley Washburn