From a child this Frank had been a donought that his father, a headborough, who could ill keep him to school to learn his letters and the use of the globes, matriculated at the university to study the mechanics but he took the bit between his teeth like a raw colt and was more familiar with the justiciary and the parish beadle than with his volumes.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

In less than four years afterwards, Eudoxia, in the bloom of youth, was destroyed by the consequences of a miscarriage; and this untimely death confounded the prophecy of a holy bishop, who, amidst the universal joy, had ventured to foretell, that she should behold the long and auspicious reign of her glorious son.
— 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

He looked at me and then up at the still quivering bell with an ever-growing astonishment upon his face.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Am′azon, or Am′azons, a river of South Page 135 [135] America, the largest in the world, formed by a great number of sources which rise in the Andes, the two head branches being the Tunguragua or Marañon and the Ucayali, both rising in Peru, the former from Lake Lauricocha, in lat.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Its geography, climate, fertility, and products, are such as to make it a very [333] desirable abode for any man; and but for the existence of slavery there, it is not impossible that I might again take up my abode in that state.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The mixture is kept underground in a closed vessel for three months, and then used to prevent the hair from falling out or turning grey.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Next afternoon the artist and I said good-bye to Siddall, and walked over to Nakai's, but not finding him at home, we went to the hotel for refreshment, where we sat down in the garden and found ourselves overwhelmed with melancholy at the ugliness of the building.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep river, brighter than all save the eyes of Eleonora; and, winding stealthily about in mazy courses, it passed away, at length, through a shadowy gorge, among hills still dimmer than those whence it had issued.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

The result was stupendous, especially in the case of the young men at the University whom the Humanists had disposed in Luther’s favour.
— from Luther, vol. 2 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

behind the anterior margin and the uterine opening the same distance behind the genital atrium.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

" The superintendent looked round at the lawyer and at me, appealing to us silently to explain, if we could, this incomprehensible desire to see Jack Straw.
— from Jezebel's Daughter by Wilkie Collins

Frothy saliva wells up from the mouth and the urine and stools are involuntarily discharged.
— from Femina, A Work for Every Woman by John A. (John Alexander) Miller

Two customs men also trussed up—also waiting to deal with me!
— from Where Your Treasure Is: Being the Personal Narrative of Ross Sidney, Diver by Holman Day

Their shouts, and the constant clashing of arms which they maintained, made a terrific uproar; a storm of missiles from the fleet poured upon the tower, while from the crevices between the shields the bowmen shot incessantly at the defenders.
— from The Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King Alfred by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

most of us, that this charter of freedom applies to the slaves as well as to ourselves; that the class of arguments put forward to batter down that idea are also calculated to break down the very idea of a free government, even for white men, and to undermine the very foundations of free society.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

"Yes, you and I, Tyr, like only affinities; the others seem to us mongrels, and to us don't seem good.
— from A Romance of Toronto (Founded on Fact): A Novel by Annie G. (Annie Gregg) Savigny

Their progress in astronomy was not equal to that found in Central America; never [253] theless, they had an accurate measure of the solar year, but, unlike the Central Americans, they divided the year into twelve months, and they used mechanical contrivances successfully to fix the times of the solstices and equinoxes.
— from Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. (John Denison) Baldwin

She had brought [133] the orchestral parts of the concerto she was to play, and began to talk in an animated manner about their use.
— from Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso by Charles Barnard