Where the placid little Ept flows down between its thickets to the Seine, a grassy bank shadows the haunt of the gudgeon, and on this bank sat Colette and Jacqueline and chattered and laughed and watched the swerving of the scarlet quills, while Hastings, his hat over his eyes, his head on a bank of moss, listened to their soft voices and gallantly unhooked the small and indignant gudgeon when a flash of a rod and a half-suppressed scream announced a catch.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The theological seminary, which begins the systematic and sympathetic study of Comparative Religion and fills the chair with a professor who has a vital as well as academic interest in the welfare of his fellow-men who as yet know not Jesus as Christ and Lord, is sure to lead in effective missionary work.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Up betimes and walked to my Lord Bellasses’s lodgings in Lincolne’s Inne Fieldes, and there he received and discoursed with me in the most respectfull manner that could be, telling me what a character of my judgment, and care, and love to Tangier he had received of me, that he desired my advice and my constant correspondence, which he much valued, and in my courtship, in which, though I understand his designe very well, and that it is only a piece of courtship, yet it is a comfort to me that I am become so considerable as to have him need to say that to me, which, if I did not do something in the world, would never have been.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In the midst of all this jollity and conviviality, a loud ring was heard at the garden gate, to which the young gentleman who took his meals in the wash-house, immediately responded.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Like maniacs, they jostled along, chattering and laughing as they drew near.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

And still as Ahab glided over the waves the unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to the boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars, that the blades became jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in the sea, at almost every dip.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Surely there is no want of frankness here, so far as the men of judgment are concerned at least.
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon

It is clear that this second version presents us with a more advanced form of the legend, adopted when it was found necessary to make room for the different apparitions of Christ, and to give to the post-resurrection life of Jesus a complete and logical form.
— from The Apostles by Ernest Renan

—— Gracious Heaven Points out a way to crown my days with glory; Oh, do not frustrate, then, the will of Jove, And close a life of virtue with disgrace!
— from The Inflexible Captive: A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Hannah More

Jimmieboy answered, convinced at last.
— from Harper's Round Table, May 7, 1895 by Various

The civil service went on as usual administering the affairs of distant countries, educating them in Roman jurisprudence, and cultivating a love for accumulating private property.
— from Report of the Committee of Fifteen Read at the Cleveland Meeting of the Department of Superintendence, February 19-21, 1884, with the Debate by William Torrey Harris

He hallooed, laughed, joked and capered about like a schoolboy on a frolic, and not to hurt the dear fellow I pretended to fall in with his mood.
— from A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey

There was a great jousting at Crecy a little later, and Gaston went there to deal with certain knights and princes among the tilters, and left the shop in Dickon's charge.
— from Masters of the Guild by Louise Lamprey

All six gates of the basal plate triangular, the jugular and cervical a little smaller than the cardinal gates.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

The Public Service Corporation of New Jersey also comprised a large political power in city and state politics.
— from The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry by Burton Jesse Hendrick