To the platform, masters; come, let's set the watch.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The Thermometer Stood this morning at 7° above 0, wind from the E. Capt Lewis took 18 men & 4 horses and went out Send in the meet killed yesterday and kill more, the Sun Shown to day Clear, both interpeters went to the Villages to day at 12 oClock two Chiefs Came loaded with meat one with a dog & Slay also loaded with meat, Capt. Lewis Sent in 4 Hors's loaded with meat, he continued at the hunting Camp near which they killed 9 buffalow.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Lacking in poetic unity, it consists of groups of verses relating to the marriage ceremonial loosely strung together.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

When, after Rakitin's cross-examination, the President asked the prisoner if he had anything to say, Mitya cried loudly: “Since I've been arrested, he has borrowed money from me!
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have found there many cannon, large stores, and, lastly, more than 160,000 muskets, which have come from England.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

That he my captive languor ° should redeeme, 430
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Forthwith the spirits prick me under my clothes like so many fleas, which causes me to put my hands on them; and so they get warm again, and my reading grows careless.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The knife-edge along which he must crawl, like Sir Lancelot in the twelfth century, divided two kingdoms of force which had nothing in common but attraction.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

my bonnie Mary, &c. Like snow upon the mountains
— from The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. by Various

The Helix turonensis (Fig. 38) , the most common land shell of the French faluns, accompanies the above land animals.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

I had about fifteen feet added to one of my chimneys last spring; and when it was done, Slingsby called and assessed it, under the head of "improved real estate," at eighty dollars, and collected two per cent.
— from Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a Plot by Charles Heber Clark

He was now famous, and {89} the young Edinburgh students, having looked into his lectures on Heroes, began to think that, whatever might be the opinions of the authorities and patrons, they for their part must consider lectures such as these a good exchange for what was provided for them.
— from Thomas Carlyle by Hector Macpherson

The soldiers of Jackson were already marching off through the woods, floundering through deep mud, crossing little streams swollen by heavy rains, but eager to get into action.
— from The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler