It would take him some time to make his way through the lumber to my box, and in the meanwhile his absence would be noticed by Captain Barnard, who had occasion for his services every minute, in arranging and copying papers connected with the business of the voyage.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

In the morning I would get up more spiteful than a dog, ready to tear the whole world to pieces.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If thou more murmur’st, I will rend an oak, 295 And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till Thou hast howl’d away twelve winters.
— from The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

Law in the Modern State .
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Let not the prudent glory in his prudence; and let not the mighty glory in his might; and let not the rich glory in his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, to understand and know the Lord, and to do judgment and justice in the midst of the earth.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I made use of this opportunity to inaugurate, as it were, my entree into the musical world in a festive manner.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Being known as Diana on earth, the Moon in the heavens, and Proserpine in the infernal regions, she was represented at these places with three faces; those of a horse, a dog, and a female; the latter being in the middle.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

I decided I would leave her and her precepts, true or false, alone; but when I awoke in the morning and saw her coming to my bed with a pleasant smile on her face, I suddenly changed my mind.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

His problem was to get from Lookout Valley to Chattanooga Valley in the most expeditious way possible; cross the latter valley rapidly to Rossville, south of Bragg's line on Missionary Ridge, form line there across the ridge facing north, with his right flank extended to Chickamauga Valley east of the ridge, thus threatening the enemy's rear on that flank and compelling him to reinforce this also.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Even in the most debased forms of fetichism, where the negro kneels in reverential awe before the shrine of some uncouth and misshapen idol, which his own hands, perhaps, have made, the act of adoration, degrading as the object may be, is nevertheless an acknowledgment of the longing need of the worshipper to throw himself upon the support of some unknown power higher than his own sphere.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

And a few minutes later, as the troopers rode away in the mist with their prisoner, her gentle voice followed them: “Don’t be rough with him, Connor.
— from Special Messenger by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

In the meantime the king and the bishop were in the choir waiting.
— from Grettir the Outlaw: A Story of Iceland by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The Dean’s fear is that ‘Mr. Jasper’s heart may be too much set on his nephew.’
— from The Problem of 'Edwin Drood': A Study in the Methods of Dickens by Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir

I clasped it to my bosom as a shield against invisible foes, but there was no sympathy in its downy softness.
— from Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz

Thus, an eagle in Central Park, for some—to me—unknown reason, took a great dislike to myself, and, whenever I approached its cage, would erect its crest and regard me in the most belligerent manner.
— from The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James, Jr.

The air inside the Med Ship grew pungent; stinging; strangling.
— from The Hate Disease by Murray Leinster

One [pg 87] hundred Europeans landed at Sierra Leone in the month of February, 1792, and were followed in March by eleven hundred and thirty-one Negroes.
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

Then, what is the meaning of "useful," or the nature of Utility.
— from Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

I thought maybe he felt more than he showed, for he fretted to be allowed to take a walk alone beyond the gate and the corner.
— from Strong Hearts by George Washington Cable

and the s. and sw. counties sp has generally become ps by metathesis, as aps , asp, klaps , clasp, lipsy , to lisp; wæps and wæsp existed in O.E. , so in the modern dialects there are double forms.
— from Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore by Elizabeth Mary Wright