They must a cost right smart,” referring to the boots.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Mithridates by often use, which Pliny wonders at, was able to drink poison; and a maid, as Curtius records, sent to Alexander from King Porus, was brought up with poison from her infancy.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee River at Eastport, Mississippi.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

In books of strict morality and close reasoning, such as I am engaged in—the neglect is inexcusable; and Heaven is witness, how the world has revenged itself upon me for leaving so many openings to equivocal strictures—and for depending so much as I have done, all along, upon the cleanliness of my readers imaginations.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The youth nestled in it and rested, making a convenient rail support the flag.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

Manager and company realised she had made a hit.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

It is very probable that the stone-cutter made a mistake, and cut "Rab. Surdam" instead of "Rap.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851 by Various

“You have therefore thought it desirable to amend your habit.” “Well, so far,” and the probationer was much embarrassed, “it was impossible for me to handle what my adviser called 'repeaters,' such as that I have mentioned, for my mind does not incline to them; but as I had been labouring the tendency to prefer meretricious and sensational religion to that which is austere and pure from the text, 'Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?
— from Afterwards, and Other Stories by Ian Maclaren

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— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The first thing which they did in the way of preparation for the voyage was to doff the garments of civilized life, and to don the costume of the "B. O. W. C." Those red shirts, decorated with a huge white cross on the back, had been washed and mended, and completely reconstructed, so that the rents and patches which were here and there visible on their fair exteriors, served as mementos of former exploits, and called up associations of the past without at all deteriorating from the striking effect of the present.
— from Lost in the Fog by James De Mille

Mr. Caldwell made a commonplace remark, she heard herself answer him.
— from The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 2 by Winston Churchill

'Thus,' as Miss Agnes Clerke remarks, 'space appeared to be strewn with the filmy débris of this beautiful but fragile structure all along the track of its retreat from the sun.'
— from Through the Telescope by James Baikie

"You might make a change, Rapp," said Heinrich.
— from The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler

You ought to see it must all come right some day.
— from Garman and Worse: A Norwegian Novel by Alexander Lange Kielland

The water, up to the girths, made a curious rushing sound, like many wings.
— from On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny by Flora Annie Webster Steel