The mind was thenceforth to follow the movement of matter, and unity must be left to shift for itself.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

He loved the Sunday School.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

But it is precisely at that time that the Beast will crawl up to us in full submission, and lick the soles of our feet, and sprinkle them with tears of blood and we shall sit upon the scarlet-colored Beast, and lifting up high the golden cup "full of abomination and filthiness," shall show written upon it the word "Mystery"!
— from The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If Amy had been here, she'd have turned her back on him forever, because, sad to relate, he had a great appetite, and shovelled in his dinner in a manner which would have horrified 'her ladyship.' I didn't mind, for I like 'to see folks eat with a relish,' as Hannah 408 says, and the poor man must have needed a deal of food after teaching idiots all day.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

He had lived to see them both consuls, the same year and during the whole year also; the younger succeeding the elder for the last six months 699 .
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Ang hapak sa lapdus sa íyang láwas, The stroke of the whip on his body.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Even the law of Poker Flat recognized this, and turned away, leaving them still locked in each other's arms.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

And Nitocris 594 who came later than she, and Rhodogyne 595 and Tomyris, 596 aye and a crowd of women beyond number who played men's parts in no very seemly fashion occur to my mind.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

He did not know that when the Fairy kissed him that last time she had changed him altogether.
— from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco

I think I see their frightened looks now, and feel the ease with which I flung them from me, and dashed my clenched fist into their white faces, and then flew like the wind, and left them screaming and shouting far behind.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

“And still a moment’s strange, incredulous suspense—and then the deluge!—then that mixture of horror, noises, uncertainty—the sound, somewhere back, of a horse’s hoofs clattering with speed—the people burst through chairs and railings, and break them up—that noise adds to the queerness of the scene—there is inextricable confusion and terror—women faint—quite feeble persons fall, and are trampled on—many cries of agony are heard—the broad stage suddenly fills to suffocation with a dense and motley crowd, like some horrible carnival—the audience rush generally upon it—at least the strong men do—the actors and actresses are there in their play costumes and painted faces, with mortal fright showing through the rouge—some trembling, some in tears—the screams and calls, confused talk—redoubled, trebled—two or three manage to pass up water from the stage to the President’s box, others try to clamber up, etc., etc.
— from Lincoln's Yarns and Stories A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes That Made Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller by Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly) McClure

On the 13th of January, 1762, there occurred a further ordinance, explaining the former and forbidding in addition the sale of liquors to soldiers and savages, and fixing the quantity lawful to be sold to the inhabitants at one time.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

I should like to see thee ettle at aught that I will not surpass."
— from Bothwell; or, The Days of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant

“Well, before I begin I should like to say that the Elijah Wilson is as dear to my heart as to any of yours, and my humiliation is....”
— from The Hospital Murders by Means Davis

"A few thousand bread eaters the less!" exclaimed Batu, in high good humour, "and if my orders are as well carried out in other parts of the country as they have been by you, Libor, my faithful Knéz, there won't be many left to share the rich harvest and vintage with us."
— from 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar; Or, The Scourge of God by Jósika, Miklós, báró

Although her heart was thrumming wildly, her soul on fire with a hope almost dangerous in its frenzy, she resolved not to stir from her prison until the one man she longed to see again in this world came to free her.
— from The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy

Orders were issued for their destruction, lest they should ever again be thorns in the sides of the Parliamentary army.
— from Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

The wheel was broken and the Russian Finn lay dead beside it, killed by a falling gaff, his swarthy face, white now in the bright light, turned up to the stormy sky; and a little farther for’ard, close to where Harper himself was standing, lay the skipper, jammed against the skylight by a heavy hencoop.
— from The Moving Finger by Mary Gaunt

The pure light that shines within that domestic circle is all the brighter because of the black outer ring that is here and there indicated rather than described.
— from Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by William Black