Tormented, in the hall, with difficulties and obstacles, I remember sinking down at the foot of the staircase—suddenly collapsing there on the lowest step and then, with a revulsion, recalling that it was exactly where more than a month before, in the darkness of night and just so bowed with evil things, I had seen the specter of the most horrible of women.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

"My son came with me," he overheard Wakem saying, "but he has vanished into some other part of the building, and has left all these charitable gallantries to me.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The next day, from fear that something might happen, orders were given for no one to leave the ship, and, as the decks were lumbered up with everything, we could not wash them down, so we had nothing to do, all day long.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The Athenians saw in him, not as heretofore, the heroic boy or desperate man, who was ready to die for them; but the prudent commander, who for their sakes was careful of his life, and could make his own warrior-propensities second to the scheme of conduct policy might point out.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

We have seen them standing in the middle of a warm room, and adorned with all sorts of beautiful things,—honey cakes, gilded apples, playthings, and many hundreds of wax tapers.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

It pat me fidgin-fain to hear't, An' sae about him there I speir't; Then a' that kent him round declar'd He had ingine; That nane excell'd it, few cam near't, It was sae fine: That, set him to a pint of ale, An' either douce or merry tale, Or rhymes an' sangs he'd made himsel, Or witty catches— 'Tween Inverness an' Teviotdale, He had few matches.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Mousqueton instantly assumed a jovial countenance, saddled the horses quickly and mounted his own without making faces over it.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

‘Your way lies there, sir,’ said Ralph, in a suppressed voice, that some devil might have owned with pride.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Madeline has only written to her once, only once, Ned, and she didn’t think she would have forgotten her quite so soon, Ned.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

My cup of happiness was now filled to the brim, my heart overflowing with gratitude to God, as I embraced my dear ones and their precious little son.
— from Fifteen Years with the Outcast by Fflorens Roberts

I was beset at once with many heavy obstacles, which grew as I went onward, until I knew not where I was, and mingled past and present.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

From all these texts we find that a righteous man has other workings, lusts, and desires than such only that are good; here then, if we consider of a righteous man thus generally, is no place of agreement betwixt him and this text.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

MY DEAREST MISS HOWE, O what dreadful, dreadful things have I to tell you!
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson

The old man, trembling as he spoke, protested that no lady had passed for many hours; on which the bluff horseman told him as he valued his life, neither he or his wife should appear on the outside of the cottage door, till he gave them leave.
— from The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti Descriptive of Life in Wales: Interspersed with Poems by T. J. Llewelyn (Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn) Prichard

It was not allowed, however, to remain there long; for hearing that the bishop had died under sentence of excommunication, the authorities caused it to be removed to the church of St. Clement Danes, near which stood the bishop's new manor house of which we are reminded at the present day by Exeter Hall.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural): total: 68.3 cu km/yr (8%/6%/86%) per capita: 923 cu m/yr (2000) Natural hazards: periodic droughts; frequent earthquakes, flash floods, landslides; hot, driving windstorm called khamsin occurs in spring; dust storms, sandstorms Environment - current issues: agricultural land being lost to urbanization and windblown sands; increasing soil salination below Aswan High Dam; desertification; oil pollution threatening coral reefs, beaches, and marine habitats; other water pollution from agricultural pesticides, raw sewage, and industrial effluents; limited natural fresh water resources away from the Nile, which is the only perennial water source; rapid growth in population overstraining the Nile and natural resources Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements Geography - note: controls Sinai Peninsula, only land bridge between Africa and remainder of Eastern Hemisphere; controls Suez Canal, a sea link between Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea; size, and juxtaposition to Israel, establish its major role in Middle Eastern geopolitics; dependence on upstream neighbors; dominance of Nile basin issues; prone to influxes of refugees People Egypt Population: 81,713,520 (July 2008 est.)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He seems to have promised Mr. Markham, that, if the violent act which Mr. Markham proposed, and which he, Mr. Hastings, ordered, was carried into execution, an authority should be procured from the board.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

McClellan, now in sole command, still lingered and delayed, while the South, making good use of precious months, gathered all her forces to meet him or whomsoever came against her.
— from The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler