28 July .—Four days in hell, knocking about in a sort of maelstrom, and the wind a tempest.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

But Jehu drew his bow, and smote him, the arrow going through his heart: so Joram fell down immediately on his knee, and gave up the ghost.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He heard it shut again; it was his predecessor, James Forster, departing in his turn.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

R. 932, just for diversion I’ll build me a yacht .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Dost thou hear, Hal? thou know’st, in the state of innocency Adam fell; and what should poor Jack Falstaff do in the days of villainy?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I'd jest flop down, I would.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

Let us hope that as the work proceeds of pulling down, one after another, the remains of the mouldering fabric of monopoly and tyranny, this one will not be the last to disappear; that the opinion of Bentham, of Mr. Samuel Bailey, of Mr. Hare, and many other of the most powerful political thinkers of this age and country (not to speak of others), will make its way to all minds not rendered obdurate by selfishness or inveterate prejudice; and that, before the lapse another generation, the accident of sex, no more than the accident of skin, will be deemed a sufficient justification for depriving its possessor of the equal protection and just privileges of a citizen.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Justice for Doña Ines!
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

As hoar-frost is just frozen dew, I can even more surely convince you of the formation of hoar-frost as rising from the ground by observations made by me at my manse in Strathmore, in June 1892.
— from Meteorology; or, Weather Explained by J. G. (John Gordon) M'Pherson

Mr. J. F. Davis, in his work on the Chinese (1840), quotes Marsden to the effect that the word “porcelain,” or porcellana , was applied by Europeans to the ware of China, from the resemblance of its fine polished surface to that of the univalve-shell so named; while the shell itself derived its appellation from the curved or gibbous shape of its upper surface, which was thought to resemble the raised back of a porcella , or little hog.
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young

Jonathan Foster described it to the author in 1854 as "a strange mach
— from The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive by Samuel Smiles

It may not amount to much, but at least it is sufficient to warrant a plausible conclusion, and there is no justification for discarding it in favour of something for which not a particle of evidence is forthcoming.
— from The Life of Cesare Borgia by Rafael Sabatini

Then Jack felt desolate indeed, and he cried, and began to make a series of promises, but he was cut short with the remark: "I've heard a great deal from a promising boy; I think I'd enjoy a performing one, as a change."
— from The Worst Boy in Town by John Habberton

The heavy jaw flows down into the thick, resistive neck.
— from The Gate of Appreciation: Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes

It played over the sea, just faintly darkening its surface, with here and there and everywhere long lanes of calm, shifting, changing, drifting, according to the capricious kisses of the breeze.
— from The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii by Jack London

The moment she got in, Joiwind fell down in exhaustion.
— from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay

The public schools of Massachusetts were taught in the years 1863-4 on an average just thirty-two weeks, just five days in a week, and, making proper allowance for recesses and opening exercises, just five and a quarter hours in a day.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various