So she sat and looked at him curiously for a few minutes after Dr. Craven had gone.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Thou dost bind The elements in balanced harmony, So that the hot and cold, the moist and dry, Contend not; nor the pure fire leaping up Escape, or weight of waters whelm the earth.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

It seemed to me that my heavy lead soles were crushing a litter of bones that made a dry crackling noise.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

‘Go away!’ said Miss Betsey, shaking her head, and making a distant chop in the air with her knife.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

arroser , humecter par l'irrigation. art , m. , application des connaissances à la réalisation d'une conception; adresse.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

His military and diplomatic career in France was closed in 1661, when his condemnations of Mazarin, although the Cardinal was then dead, obliged him to fly from the wrath of the French Court to Holland and afterwards to England, where Charles II granted him a pension of £300 a-year.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The first effects Mr. Lithgow felt of the determination of this bloody tribunal was, a sentence to receive that night eleven different tortures, and if he did not die in the execution of them, (which might be reasonably expected from the maimed and disjointed condition he was in) he was, after Easter holy-days, to be carried to Grenada, and there burnt to ashes.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

My menials, and domestic cares employ; And, unattended by sincere repose, The night assists my ever-wakeful woes; When nature's hush'd beneath her brooding shade, My echoing griefs the starry vault invade.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Râvanam cum filiis nepotibusque, cum amicis, ministris, cognatis sociisque, crudelem istum aegre cohibendum, qui divinis Sapientibus terrorem meutit, per decem millia annorum decies centenis additis, commorabor in mortalium sedibus, orbem terrarum imperio regens.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Curé d'office: M. Antoine Deat (continued).
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 1. Under the French Régime, 1535-1760 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

Papias was brought up with the children of Marcus and Dada Cecilia, while his sister Agne, finding herself relieved of all care on his account, sought and found her own way through life.
— from Serapis — Volume 06 by Georg Ebers

To suppose that so great a man as Defoe could not write a book without stealing his ideas from Alexander Selkirk is ridiculous.
— from Harper's Young People, July 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

ii. 6: "And water also ye shall dig from them for money, and drink" (compare Exod.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

They told him one parson Marks, a dissenting clergyman; upon which, taking leave of the ladies, he stept over the way, and knocked boldly at the door, which was opened by the parson himself.
— from The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars Containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man by Unknown

A situation more absolutely desperate could hardly be imagined.
— from The British Navy in Battle by Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen

A small matter of forty miles a day counted for nothing to men wakened from heavy sleep to face the firing of an invisible foe.
— from On the Firing Line by Anna Chapin Ray

Hysteria and other neuroses, obsessing hobbies and crazes, are, more often than not, morbid and distressing consequences of habits acquired at school and college, of developing abnormal high-pressures of muscular and nervous energy.
— from Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

He married a damsel called Maledisaunt (3 syl .), who loved him, but always chided him.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Fetch me a dozen crab-tree staves, and strong ones; these are but switches to 'em.
— from King Henry the Eighth by William Shakespeare