IMG IMAGE END While Xenomanes was saying this, Friar John spied twenty or thirty young slender-shaped Chitterlings posting as fast as they could towards their town, citadel, castle, and fort of Chimney, and said to Pantagruel, I smell a rat; there will be here the devil upon two sticks, or I am much out.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

This measure, which was drawn up in secret and rushed through the Diet at a time when most of its probable opponents were absent, transformed Poland from an aristocratic republic into a constitutional hereditary monarchy, abolished the liberum veto , and secured religious [pg 334] toleration.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

But before Caesar had determined any thing about these people, or given the commanders any orders relating to them, the soldiers were in such a rage, that they set that cloister on fire; by which means it came to pass that some of these were destroyed by throwing themselves down headlong, and some were burnt in the cloisters themselves.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

But at the instant when Mitya stood before him, feeling his legs grow weak under him, and frantically exclaiming that he was ruined, at that moment the old man looked at him with intense spite, and resolved to make a laughing-stock of him.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They were both of them jovial about the cold in winter and the heat in summer, always ready to work overtime and to meet emergencies.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

How can she sit on the edge of the abyss of loathsomeness into which she is slipping and refuse to listen when she is told of danger?
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narcotics are drugs that relieve pain, often induce sleep, and refer to opium, opium derivatives, and synthetic substitutes.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

In short, a reversion to a smaller and seaworthier type took place.
— from The Evolution of Naval Armament by Frederick Leslie Robertson

I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter—the Eternity they have entered—where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.
— from Charlotte Brontë: A Monograph by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid

Then he fell into such a rage that he tore his leaden beard and hair, and trampled them as he would tow; but what good did that do him?—for he was trampling his own.
— from Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars by Jeremiah Curtin

You will do exactly as I say, and recite the double lesson.
— from Tom Fairfield's Schooldays; or, The Chums of Elmwood Hall by Allen Chapman

A man has suffered pain or sickness in any place; he saw his friend die in such a room: though these have in nature nothing to do one with another, yet when the idea of the place occurs to his mind, it brings (the impression being once made) that of the pain and displeasure with it: he confounds them in his mind, and can as little bear the one as the other.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke