With an air of uncommon cheerfulness, purposely assumed, she retired to her closet, on pretence of complying with his desire, and, having employed a few minutes in rummaging her drawers and disordering her moveables, uttered a loud shriek, that brought her father instantly into the apartment, where he found his daughter tossing about her clothes and trinkets with violent demonstrations of disorder and affright, and heard her, in a lamentable strain, declare that she was robbed of her chain, and for ever undone.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

While, therefore, the young men were making fun of the sentiments of this last speaker, and criticizing the arrangement of the whole speech, I seized the opportunity and went after Ascyltos, on the run; but, as I neither held strictly to the road, nor knew where the inn was located, wherever I went, I kept coming back to the same place, until, worn out with running, and long since dripping with sweat, I approached a certain little old woman who sold country vegetables.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Apart from this last senseless desire for the rank of a colonel, he is perfectly right, for he fully understands the present value of the monster he is exhibiting.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[4] un libro abierto, un monumento histórico, un almanaque de los sucesos de la independencia.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Quirks in law; subtle distinctions and evasions.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

See, likewise, Spanheim de Usu.
— 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

The Law section describes the law governing the behavior and conduct of the populace.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

The globe on the corner shelf took the shape of some great bird sitting gorged and sombre on its ample perch—the document cases with their white letterings suggested dark heads and shining rows of teeth, and the green baize doors studded with brass-nails seemed like monster coffins set on end, each staring silently through an oval eye of glass.
— from The Case and Exceptions: Stories of Counsel and Clients by Frederick Trevor Hill

We have seen it kicked by Austria, insulted by Prussia, disobeyed by the lesser States, duped by its own impotent Central "Government," which again was the dupe of all and every prince in the country.
— from Revolution and Counter-Revolution; Or, Germany in 1848 by Friedrich Engels

The soil of the whole village is undermined by it; the ground is perforated with the entrances to their subterranean galleries, and a little sandy dome occurs here and there, where the insects bring their young to receive warmth near the surface.
— from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates

"Not by me, God knoweth; but I had this morning a message——" "From whom?" "Not from my Lord Sunderland— direct from His Majesty bidding me ask the States the reason of the preparations of Your Highness——" The Stadtholder glanced at his friends; he was still taut with passion.
— from God and the King by Marjorie Bowen

Twice, practicable breaches were effected, and the Spaniards, bravely mounting to the assault, which lasted several days, were repulsed with severe loss; the women of Bonifacio, as well as the priests and monks, vyeing with the townsmen in heroic courage while defending the breaches.
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester

And for a few moments he seemed to himself like a failure in the sphere of love, somewhat dubious and pitiable.
— from The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler

“You’re like to go to Court to the Devil, I’m 157 thinking then, dear lad,” speaks de Bohun over his shoulder.
— from My Lady Peggy Goes to Town by Frances Aymar Mathews