36 Near three thousand years passed away from the Mosaic account of the creation, till the Jews under a national delusion requested a king.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Our hunters joined us at noon with three deer the greater part of which I gave the indians.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

For he that judged it first, judged unjustly; and no Injustice can be a pattern of Judgement to succeeding Judges.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

This house was entered by a side-door opening from the Quai Jemmapes upon a narrow courtyard a few steps lower than the Quai itself.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

If he went off anywhere--I knew one such woman, she couldn't restrain herself, but would jump up at night and run off on the sly to find out where he was, whether he was with some other woman.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Pray, cousin John," said Ada, who had just joined us and now looked over my shoulder, "what made him such a child?"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

If he went off anywhere—I knew one such woman, she couldn't restrain herself, but would jump up at night and run off on the sly to find out where he was, whether he was with some other woman.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

the judgments which the Chaldeans inflicted upon Judah, appear only as a part of a universal judgment upon all nations.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

So John uses a new word at the first, and so floods in new light.
— from Quiet Talks on John's Gospel by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

Julia unfolded a note and handed it to him.
— from In Kedar's Tents by Henry Seton Merriman

The same judgment, upon a nihil dicit, is pronounced in regard to the blowing of the horn, viz.:
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles

At the same time one of the leading sophomores jumped up and nominated Mr. Davis, and a number of men from the same class seconded it.
— from Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Richard Harding Davis

The tired crew now hug a bluff shore, crowned with dense jungle, until a nook familiar to the men is entered under plea of breakfasting.
— from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

The little party at once joined up, and Naida seated herself next to Nigel.
— from The Great Prince Shan by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim