The rays of the numerous candles (for there were many) now fell within a niche of the room which had hitherto been thrown into deep shade by one of the bed-posts.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

“As they laid me under the enchantment the fairies told me all my history, for until then I had quite believed that I was their child, and warned me that my only chance of regaining my natural form was to win the love of a prince who resembled in every way my unfortunate lover.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Examined, mended, newly found Was the old and forgotten coach; Kibitkas three, the accustomed train,(71)
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

But when they had marched ninety furlongs, while the road had been through dry [and sandy] places, and about the midst of the day, they were become very thirsty; and Mithridates appeared, and fell upon them, as they were in distress for want of water, on which account, and on account of the time of the day, they were not able to bear their weapons.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Suddenly the crowd parted and a small space was left empty round Liza’s prostrate figure, and Mavriky Nikolaevitch, frantic with grief and covered with blood, was standing over her, screaming, weeping, and wringing his hands.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A city composed of such men must therefore consist of slaves and masters, not freemen; where one party must hate, and the other despise, where there could be no possibility of friendship or political community: for community supposes affection; for we do not even on the road associate with our enemies.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Such vigilance might announce the character of the new reign; but the strictest vigilance, and the most numerous forces, were insufficient to protect the long-extended coast of Italy from the depredations of a naval war.
— 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

The very rose-trees at which Adam stopped to pluck one looked as if they grew wild; they were all huddled together in bushy masses, now flaunting with wide-open petals, almost all of them of the streaked pink-and-white kind, which doubtless dated from the union of the houses of York and Lancaster.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

SEE Miller, Minnie M. NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH WILHELM.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

I felt Tom-Bras trembling under me, not for want of ardor or courage, but because his strength was spent.
— from The Casque's Lark; or, Victoria, the Mother of the Camps by Eugène Sue

“Of course the men never found what they were looking for?” asked Frank, as the boat sped on its way.
— from The River Motor Boat Boys on the Amazon; Or, The Secret of Cloud Island by Harry Gordon

The subspecies closest, geographically, to B. m. handleyi is B. m. nigrescens , from which B. m. handleyi differs more in color than from any of the other named subspecies, except B. m. pullus .
— from Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. (Robert Lewis) Packard

Desirous that my successor in the O—— library should have the advantage of all the information I can collect, in regard to the bibliographical curiosities therein contained, I am induced to avail myself of the medium your pages afford to inquire whether any of your Suffolk antiquaries can give me, or point out where I can help myself to, any particulars touching my new friend with an old face.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 139, June 26, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

This was the work of Mrs. Errington's own hands in her school-girl days, and was of the kind called then, if I mistake not, "filagree work."
— from A Charming Fellow, Volume III by Frances Eleanor Trollope

Page 6 Palestine, the Holy Land, made famous in the history of the Christian Church, added Jeruselem, the City of David; Bethlehem, the cradle of Christ; Jordan, where He was baptized; the Sea of Galilee, on whose shores He preached to the multitude; Nazareth, from which He was called a Nazarene; Gethsemane, where He suffered; Calvary, where He was crucified.
— from Shepp's Photographs of the World by Daniel B. Shepp

I dined, very much to my satisfaction, on some of the “débris” of the mess, and, under the auspices of the captain's servant, arrayed myself in my new finery, which, I am free to confess, presented what artists would call “a flashy bit of color;” being far more in the style of Horace Vernet than Van Dyke.
— from Confessions Of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

Hinder me not, friends, withstand me not; I maun do battle with this Philistine."
— from Stories of the Border Marches by Jean Lang