There was a broad pathway with many tracks upon it at the spot which I had found, so that it was clearly one of the drinking-places of the animals.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

It’s only talking, when all is said and done, and if she talks of me in the stocks, why I can talk of her in the stocks, which is a good deal funnier if we come to that.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Besides the 177 immigrants, who came to America from Stavanger and Bergen in 1837, there was a considerable number who embarked from Gothenburg, Sweden.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

To the office, where word is brought me by a son-in-law of Mr. Pierces; the purser, that his father is a dying and that he desires that I would come to him before he dies.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Canonizing Of Saints The Name Of Pontifex Procession Of Images Wax Candles, And Torches Lighted CHAPTER XLVI.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

It was coming to him that perhaps all life as he knew it and vigorously practised it was futile; that heaven as portrayed by the Reverend Dr. John Jennison Drew was neither probable nor very interesting; that he hadn't much pleasure out of making money; that it was of doubtful worth to rear children merely that they might rear children who would rear children.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

He really had no very lofty aims, no theological enthusiasm: if I were closely questioned, I should be obliged to confess that he felt no serious alarms about the souls of his parishioners, and would have thought it a mere loss of time to talk in a doctrinal and awakening manner to old “Feyther Taft,” or even to Chad Cranage the blacksmith.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

He has yawned and shivered all day, and gone to bed without supper; so that, as we have got into good quarters, I imagine we shall make a halt to-morrow; in which case, you will have at least one day’s respite from the persecution of J. MELFORD Oct. 3. H2 anchor To Mrs MARY JONES, at Brambleton-hall.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Though I thought I had still cause of mourning, and being unsettled in our minds, we thought we would ride toward the eastward, to see if we could hear anything concerning our children.
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

Then they set fire to them; and as the flame burnt up high, the wife said, "Now, you children, lie down near the fire, and rest yourselves, while we go into the forest and chop wood; when we are ready, I will come and call you."
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

THE GRAVING TOOL PRECEDES THE PEN—CLASSIFICATION UNDER TWO HEADS, ONE WHICH SCRATCHED AND THE OTHER WHICH USED AN INK—THE STYLUS AND THE MATERIALS OF WHICH IT WAS COMPOSED—POETICALLY DESCRIBED—COMMENTS BY NOEL HUMPHREYS—RECAPITULATION OF VARIOUS DEVICES BY KNIGHT—BIBLICAL REFERENCES—ENGRAVED STONES AND OTHER MATERIALS THE EARLIEST KINDS OF RECORDS—WHEN THIN BRICKS WERE UTILIZED FOR INSCRIPTION PURPOSES—METHODS EMPLOYED BY THE CHINESE—
— from Forty Centuries of Ink Or, A chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by David Nunes Carvalho

, it was commanded by the king.
— from A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Maxwell, William Edward, Sir

An African lion of full size used to be considered as a match for forty men in the days when only ordinary weapons were used against him, and it was considered almost hopeless to attack him with less than that number.
— from Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series by Jacob Abbott

A thousand thoughts and images were chasing each other wildly through his head, and he found himself unable to lay the weird ghosts.
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

I told the Duke of Newcastle (whom I saw by appointment with Lord Waldegrave, Saturday) that this was the last time I would ever come to see if we could agree.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 2 (of 3) by Horace Walpole

It is probably safe to say that an undertaking like that of Great Britain in Egypt, if attempted in this hemisphere by a non-American state, would not be tolerated by us if able to prevent it; but it is conceivable that the moral force of our contention might be weakened, in the view of an opponent, by attendant circumstances, in which case our physical power to support it should be open to no doubt.
— from The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

If healing is right for the patient, it will certainly be granted; but for some ailing persons, healing would only be the cause of other ills, and therefore wisdom doth not permit an affirmative answer to the prayer.
— from Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá

This is the phrase in which Calandrino supposes his "quondam fellows" will address him.
— from The Plays of Philip Massinger, Vol. I by Philip Massinger

Perhaps, looking back on history, the Fountain might remember Yoriiyé, son of Yoritomo the Great, who, banished to the temple of Idzu, was compelled to shave off his hair.
— from The Curse of Koshiu: A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield