"I'll see what I can spare you out of my own battery," said he.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

And these jolted dreams were never perfect to him afterward, but remained a mass of blurred shapes.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

The longing which had been upon him and driven him thus far, like the gad-fly in the Greek legends, giving him no rest in mind or body, seemed all of a sudden not to be satisfied, but to shrivel up and pall.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

At that time suffered Aaron and Julius, 57 citizens of the City of Legions, 58 and many more of both sexes in divers places; who, after that they had endured sundry torments, and their limbs had been mangled after an unheard-of [pg 019] manner, when their warfare was accomplished, yielded their souls up to the joys of the heavenly city.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

“You ought to venerate the memory of Baron Stott-Wartenheim,” he exclaimed suddenly.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

43 The usurper pursued, with implacable rage, the life of his younger brother, whose courage and abilities he feared; and Mascezel, oppressed by superior power, took refuge in the court of Milan, where he soon received the cruel intelligence that his two innocent and helpless children had been murdered by their inhuman uncle.
— 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

An excavation is made below the level of the dining room to a depth of about two feet, and, after the ground has been rammed down, the mass of broken stones or the pounded burnt brick is spread on, at such an inclination that it can find vents in the drain.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

So also is the state of man: if he should always be in earnest and not relax himself for sport at the due time, he would either go mad or be struck with stupor before he was aware; and knowing this well, I distribute a portion of the time to each of the two ways of living."
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Another cause I had of wonder, which was, that not one of all with whom I conversed, after he saw me to be heretical and declining from the truth, thought proper to advise me to use the only means of becoming strong in the faith, viz.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Till thou shalt know the reason of my love; And so good Capulet, which name I tender As dearly as mine own, be satisfied.
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

It is a model of brief statement of great truths, and proves that the social difficulty can only be fully remedied by the Catholic Church, which has an elevating force incomparably more powerful than any other known to humanity.
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

Whenever I read of the chance discovery of fossils or human remains, of buried cities in Yucatan or Roman pavements beneath Gloucestershire meadows, or beautiful statues fished out of the Tiber, or mediaeval treasures dug from below old castles, it grows an ever greater wonder to me that no one has yet proposed a systematic exploration of the whole earth beneath our feet.
— from Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis

The multitude of books, said Luther, is much to be lamented; no measure nor end is held in writing; every one will write books; some out of ambition to purchase praise thereby, and to raise them names; others for the sake of lucre and gain, and by that means further much evil.
— from Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther by Martin Luther

The point is insisted on because, since the Bible is a supernatural book, it can be studied or mastered only by supernatural aid.
— from How to Master the English Bible An Experience, a Method, a Result, an Illustration by James M. (James Martin) Gray

“My only baby!” said McIntosh with a smile.
— from The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling

I sent him to smite Amalek, and not to spare any soul alive, old age and infancy not excepted; but Saul did not obey my orders, but spared the King and brought him a captive, which I did not expect As I took him from driving mules, and made him a King, he ought therefore to have obeyed my commands.
— from A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion Principal Historical Facts and Personages of the Books Known as The Old and New Testament; With Remarks on the Morality of Nature by Benjamin Offen

Hence, in the case of a storm of large diameter, people in Richmond or Washington may often be surprised by an apparent northeast gale, which reaches them before it strikes New York or Boston.
— from Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History by Allen Howard Godbey