A hundred years later, in 377 B.C., came the great schism among the Buddhists, out of which grew the divisions known as Northern and Southern Buddhism.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The old woman was in her element, and afraid of nothing under the stars; she slept beside her kettles at night, and snapped her fingers at the idea of the least danger.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

She dropped her eyes to the immense bouquet of lilies-of-the-valley on her knee, and Newland Archer saw her white-gloved finger-tips touch the flowers softly.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

" "There is no reason for it," said K., and, now as she sank back onto the cushion, kissed her forehead.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

3685 A place of great strength in Cœle-Syria, now known as Nebi Abel, situate between Heliopolis and Damascus.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

But in which we excel all others, a wise, learned, religious king, another Numa, a second Augustus, a true Josiah; most worthy senators, a learned clergy, an obedient commonalty, &c.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

From the construction of our armies we could not guarantee this article, but assurances were given that every practical attention would be paid to their wishes; and kine are not absolutely slain within the jurisdiction of any of these Rajput princes.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The musical arrangements are of the humblest kind, and not a single man is armed, at least outwardly, and not one in twenty carries a stick.
— from Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard Henry Becker

I fancy it is something catching and can most easily be caught at "Tin-jugs," and "Red Lions," and "Indian Queens," and "Bull and Bushes," and suchlike places where they know absolutely nothing about synecdoche or aposiopesis either.
— from Bee: The Princess of the Dwarfs by Anatole France

For more than three hours the American ships had been targets for a hot fire from the Spanish fleet and forts, and during all that time not a man had been killed and not a ship seriously injured.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 07 (of 15), Spanish by Charles Morris

The commonest creatures may serve us best in order that we may come to view evolution as a process that involves each and every living thing that we know, and not as something which belongs only to the remote and unknown past.
— from The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton

The artificial gravity was unchanged by the impact; to the passengers the vessel was still motionless and on even keel as, now a submarine, she snapped around like a very fish and attacked the rear of the nearest fortress.
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Previous to this there were but three roads in Harsimus—one the causeway leading to Paulus Hook now known as Newark avenue, second "the road to church
— from Jersey City and Its Historic Sites by Harriet Phillips Eaton

But the fight was over before even Hohenlohe arrived; forty of the garrison being killed, and not a single man of the seventy assailants.
— from By England's Aid; Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Her letters were charming, especially a detail of Fred meeting Bryan O’More coming out of the trenches, grim, hungry, and tired, having recently kicked a newly alighted shell down from the parapet, with the cool words, ‘Be off with you, you ugly baste you;’ of his wolfish appetite after having been long reduced to simple rations, though he kept a curly black lamb loose about his hut, because he hadn’t the heart to kill it; and it served him for bed if not for board, all his rugs and blankets having flown off in the hurricane, or been given to the wounded; he had been quite affronted at the suggestion that a Galway pig was as well lodged as himself—it was an insult to any respectable Irish animal!
— from The Young Step-Mother; Or, A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

The King and nobles all strove to catch him, but at last poor Tom fell from his seat into a watering-pot, in which he was almost drowned, only luckily the gardener's child saw him, and pulled him out.
— from The Golden Goose Book by L. Leslie (Leonard Leslie) Brooke