Awakened in the night by the light of the flames, she sprang out of bed, wrapped herself in a dressing-gown, and attempted to escape by the door, but the corridor by which she hoped to fly was already a prey to the flames.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He is saying farewell to the great enemy he is setting free—the simple, snow-headed English veteran, who thanks him in the name of his men.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

In both accounts oxen come into play, for while in the Northern myth these sturdy beasts draw the piece of land far out to sea, in the other an ox hide, cut into strips, serves to enclose the queen’s grant.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

She appeared in a vision to Aristagoras in the night, Cras inquit tybicinem Lybicum cum tybicine pontico committam ( tomorrow I will cause a contest between a Libyan and a Pontic minstrel ), and the day following this enigma was understood; for with a great south wind which came from Libya, she quite overwhelmed Mithridates' army.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In the North, the country, the towns and the cities presented about the same appearance they do in time of peace.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

(It was the third existing theatre for lyric drama, the performances being given in the new Salle Ventadour, which had been rebuilt after its destruction by fire.)
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

As if that name, Shot from the deadly level of a gun, Did murder her, as that name’s cursed hand Murder’d her kinsman.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Since the last shots fired at Ayrton not a report, not even a sound, had betrayed the presence of the brig in the neighborhood of the island.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

In 1774 Thomas Jefferson obtained a grant of land from George III. which included the Natural Bridge, and he was long the owner, building the first house there, a log cabin with two rooms, one being for the reception of strangers.
— from America, Volume 1 (of 6) by Joel Cook

With the exception of a number of large bones of a bear, found in one of the houses in the northern range of the eastern section, these bones were not carefully collected.
— from Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes

They pressed this point in the negotiation, "the continuation of their law for the exclusion of slavery;" and Mr. Trist told them he could not make a treaty on that condition; if they would "offer him the land covered a foot thick with pure gold, upon the single condition that slavery should be excluded therefrom, I could not entertain the offer for a moment."
— from Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Theodore Parker

Also, the force of each ship stated agreeably to the old usage in the navy, according to the number of guns actually carried.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

Kane states that it has been found in the north, south, east, and west of Ireland, but is always local and scarce.
— from The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series Comprising the Families Noctuidæ to Hepialidæ by Richard South

In the name of the people of the State of Ohio, I, David A. Duty, Mayor of the City of Harrisville, do hereby require all persons within the limits of the City to refrain from unnecessary assemblies in the streets, squares, or in public places of the City during its present disturbed condition, and until quiet is restored, and I hereby give notice that the police have been ordered, and the militia requested to disperse any unlawful assemblies.
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

It is indeed not common to find a crater of the largest size associated with them; but, at the same time, craters which on our earth would be considered huge are by no means uncommon upon their surface, and every increase of telescopic power reveals a corresponding increase in the number of these objects (Plates XIII.
— from Through the Telescope by James Baikie

A pride in the name of Colombo has been shared by all who have borne it or have had relationship with it, and there has been a not unworthy competition among many branches of the common stock to establish the evidences of their descent in connection, more or less intimate, with the greatest name that has signalized the family history.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

[178:1] Roosevelt, "The Northwest in the Nation," in "Proceedings of the Wisconsin Historical Society," Fortieth Annual Meeting, p. 92.
— from The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner

We have been hitherto tracing the course of several streams which, rising in various parts of Africa and Spain in the south and in the north, yet have mingled their currents somewhat; but we shall soon find that the stream which had its source in the north became eventually a resistless torrent that swept all before it.
— from Spain by Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) Ober