Of what did the duumvirate deliberate during their itinerary? Music, literature, Ireland, Dublin, Paris, friendship, woman, prostitution, diet, the influence of gaslight or the light of arc and glowlamps on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees, exposed corporation emergency dustbuckets, the Roman catholic church, ecclesiastical celibacy, the Irish nation, jesuit education, careers, the study of medicine, the past day, the maleficent influence of the presabbath, Stephen’s collapse.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

He was just enough civilized to show off his outlandishness in the strangest possible manners.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

At daylight my Japanese escort came to say that with the greatest difficulty they had managed to procure one large boat; on this the archives were placed, and started off about nine.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Origen, Irenaeus, Eusebius, Jerome, Epiphanius, confirm this statement.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

There was a fine charge of all, except a dozen of the more sedate of the party; they rattled their spears, and ran, and shouted, and jumped, even crossing the stream which was the neutral ground.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Rachel had just enough consciousness to suppose herself a donkey on the summit of a moor in a hail-storm, with its coat blown into furrows; then she became a wizened tree, perpetually driven back by the salt Atlantic gale.
— from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

July ed. corrected to Sept. 1936.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1964 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

'Justina Elgood,' cried the summoning officer, and Justina stood up in the crowded room, pale to the lips, but unfaltering.
— from A Strange World: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3) by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

July ed. corrected to Sept. 1940.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1968 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

An inscription on the Tour du Pin, a vestige of the city ramparts that originally had twenty-five such towers, records the birth of Jaime el Conquistador, the scourge of Islam, the conqueror of Valencia and the Balearic Islands, and the builder of six thousand churches.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

JELLIED EGGS Cook the same as curdled eggs, leaving eggs in fifteen minutes instead of eight.
— from Substitutes for Flesh Foods: Vegetarian Cook Book by Edwin Giles Fulton

Just enough clovertops to sweeten the briny air into the most delightful tonic.
— from Around the Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

And Jankin and Jenikin [E51] coosen thee so to make thee repent it, er yeere about go.
— from Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser