The captain of a penny steamer (if I remember correctly) at Southend.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Beneath his shield, all blood and mud and mess: Whereat the lion feasted: then it went Back to its rocky couch and slept content.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Brest Federe Officers, galloping in red coats, are shot as Swiss.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I must, therefore, if I reason consequentially, as strenuously maintain, that they have the same simple direction, as that there is a God.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

But presently this sea upon dry ground was to lose its “rolling” character and stretch away for seven hundred miles as level as a floor!
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

(misc.handicap) and various FidoNet conferences such as ABLED, BlinkTalk SilentTalk, Chronic Pain, Spinal Injury, Rare Conditions, and several others.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

idleness, remissness &c. adj.; sloth, indolence, indiligence[obs3]; dawdling &c. v. ergophobia[obs3], otiosity[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

I readily consented, and she handed me twenty-four sequins for the supper and for the band, undertaking to send people to place chandeliers in the hall and in my other rooms.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In a few months General Pollock, with a fresh army from India, retook Cabul and soon finished the war.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

To share a common speech does not guarantee participation in the community life but it is an instrument of participation, and its acquisition by the members of an immigrant group is rightly considered a sign and a rough index of Americanization.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

“I must say, sir,” said Sedley, as he rose and proceeded to thrust the papers hurriedly into his bag, “that though I am highly impressed—very highly impressed, indeed, with the noble sentiments you have delivered on this occasion—sentiments, I am bound to admit, that a long professional career has never made me acquainted with till this day—yet, on the whole, Mr. Bramleigh, looking at the question with a view to its remote consequences, and speculating on what would result if such opinions as yours were to meet a general acceptance, I am bound, to say I prefer the verdict of twelve men in a jury-box to the most impartial judgment of any individual breathing; and I wish you a very good-night.” What Mr. Sedley muttered to himself as he ascended the stairs, in what spirit he canvassed the character of Mr. Augustus Bramleigh, the reader need not know; and it is fully as well that our story does not require it should be recorded.
— from The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever

Then, when the vessel is reached, comes another struggle to avoid being struck and crushed by the plunging ship, or the broken spars and rigging pounding about the hull.
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

The Company, which was new to that kind of power, and not yet thoroughly apprised of its real character and situation, considered itself still as a trader in the territories of a foreign potentate, in the prosperity of whose country it had neither interest nor duty.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

It was a pity, seeing how many Germans were alienated from their country by the series of its rulers’ crimes, and seeing how many German names were in the daily lists of our dead, that the word and the accent grew so hateful to the American people.
— from The Cup of Fury: A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Rupert Hughes

The most absurd "double-gangings" take place between an inconnu named Liverani, whom Consuelo cannot help loving, and Albert himself, who is Liverani, as everybody but herself sees at once, interspersed between endless tracts of the usual rubbish about underground tribunals, and judges in red cloaks, and skeletons, and museums of torture-implements, and all the Weishauptian trumpery of mixed occultism and revolutionary sentiment.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

"Come, my masters," he called out again, holding the plaque above his head, and drumming upon it with the handle of his dagger till it rang clearly and sweetly like a silver gong.
— from Roger the Bold: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

He uses flies for bait always, but I told him that we fished with worms in Rainbow Creek and sometimes when it wouldn’t rain for a long time we used to have to dig way down under the ground to find them.
— from The Ranch Girls at Boarding School by Margaret Vandercook

Inquiry in Rubio City and San Felipe and through the newspapers on the Coast brought no returns.
— from The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright

It is said that Palmer was guilty of a falsehood in representing Cook as suffering from diarrhœa; but that is to put a very violent and a very uncharitable construction on his words, for you will remember that Bamford swore to Cook having told him that his bowels had been affected twice or three times on Sunday.
— from The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, which lasted Twelve Days by Anonymous