The troops were recalled because the Government believed the Five Kings were cowed; and it is not cheap to feed men among the high Passes.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

23 Note 19 ( return ) [ Their oracle, the archbishop of Milan, assigns to his pupil Gratian, a high and respectable place in heaven, (tom. ii. de Obit.
— 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

Now take this stool, sit down, look me directly in the face, and tell me all that has passed between your master and you."
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Then rid your bosoms of distress, And Bharat thus from me address: “The household priest and peers by us Send health to thee and greet thee thus: Come to thy father's home with haste: Thine absent time no longer waste.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

They seem of the very substance of spirit, obeying a vital momentum and flowing from the inmost principle of being; and they are so much akin to human presumptions that they pass for manifestations of necessary truth.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

With this answer the envoy returned to Lilliput; and the monarch of Blefuscu related to me all that had passed; offering me at the same time (but under the strictest confidence) his gracious protection, if I would continue in his service; wherein, although I believed him sincere, yet I resolved never more to put any confidence in princes or ministers, where I could possibly avoid it; and therefore, with all due acknowledgments for his favourable intentions, I humbly begged to be excused.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

The king married; and the haughty princess of Austria, who became, as queen of England, the head of fashion, looked with harsh eyes on his defects, and with contempt on the affection her royal husband entertained for him.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Insulated wires—insulated so that they would transmit messages in a storm, on the ground or under water—were wound upon reels, making about two hundred pounds weight of wire to each reel.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

He walks up the middle, and takes his post by Warner, who begins calling over the names.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

I hope yet to meet and tell her personally of the hairbreadth escapes and dangers I have passed.
— from A British Rifle Man The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo by George Simmons

He had never bothered with mental analysis; his effort to untangle his ideas in this case merely added to his puzzlement; it was like one of those patent trick things which he had picked up in idle moments, allowing the puzzle to bedevil attention and time, intriguing his interest, to his disgust.
— from Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day

There were squads of rebels traveling along this road at all hours of the night, so we concluded to travel and make all the headway possible.
— from In Defense of the Flag: A true war story A pen picture of scenes and incidents during the great rebellion.--Thrilling experiences during escape from southern prisons, etc. by David W. Stafford

He flared the candle at me again, smoking my face and hair, and for an instant blinding me, and turned his powerful back as he replaced the light on the table.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Some of the men used to make as much as two hundred pounds a year as pilots.
— from Armorel of Lyonesse: A Romance of To-day by Walter Besant

Jacques noticed that she now paid more attention to her personal appearance, drank less, and kept the house cleaner.
— from The Monomaniac (La bête humaine) by Émile Zola

In the midst of Music also, the happy pair passed the honeymoon.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

It was evident they must each go back with a load which a man unaccustomed to the packing necessary in that country could scarcely carry a mile, and the hardiest prospector among them shrank from crossing the divide with such a burden.
— from Delilah of the Snows by Harold Bindloss

"When man attains the highest point of civilisation," wrote Chateaubriand in the vein of Rousseau, "he is on the lowest stair of morality; if he is free, he is rude; by civilising his manners, he forges himself chains.
— from The Idea of Progress: An Inguiry into Its Origin and Growth by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury