And supposing he were to do this several times under the heat of a scorching sun, might he not, being an expert, overturn more than one stout personage?
— from The Republic by Plato

Then, as the Martian towered overhead scarcely a couple of hundred yards away, I flung myself forward under the surface.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

" I had more than once seen him look at the Count uneasily during dinner-time, and had observed that the Count carefully abstained from looking at him in return.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

I will make an extract from it: Hannibal, as a city, may have many sins to answer for, but ingratitude is not one of them, or reverence for the great men she has produced, and as the years go by her greatest son, Mark Twain, or S. L. Clemens as a few of the unlettered call him, grows in the estimation and regard of the residents of the town he made famous and the town that made him famous.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

It has already been observed, that almost every kind of idea is attended with some emotion, even the ideas of number and extension, much more those of such objects as are esteemed of consequence in life, and fix our attention.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

As in conference, the gravity, robe, and fortune of him who speaks, ofttimes gives reputation to vain arguments and idle words, it is not to be presumed but that a man, so attended and feared, has not in him more than ordinary sufficiency; and that he to whom the king has given so many offices and commissions and charges, he so supercilious and proud, has not a great deal more in him, than another who salutes him at so great a distance, and who has no employment at all.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It ran in this way: “Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called and gave evidence as follows: ‘I had been away from home for three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the morning of last Monday, the 3rd.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I then explained to him that we wanted the slaves to remain where they were, and not to load us down with useless mouths, which would eat up the food needed for our fighting men; that our success was their assured freedom; that we could receive a few of their young, hearty men as pioneers; but that, if they followed us in swarms of old and young, feeble and helpless, it would simply load us down and cripple us in our great task.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

More than once, since they quitted the presence of Astarte, had Fakredeen harped upon this idea.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

He denied the infallibility of popes and councils; asserted and defended the great doctrines of the gospel, and besought, that the scriptures might be circulated, and read, and be made the only standard of faith, and rule of practice, and that evangelists might be sent through the land.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

You see vehicles of all kinds, from the new landau with a pair of magnificent Andalusian horses, or the strange omnibus drawn by mules, typical of Southern Spain, to the shabby victoria, with a broken-down hack and a decrepit coachman.
— from The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Burden : The burden or refrain is the part repeated at the end of each stanza of a ballad or song, expressing the main theme or sentiment.
— from The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, Ph.D. by James Russell Lowell

No ordinary man thinks of speaking, except in monosyllables, till he gets a little "elevated," and then he speaks nonsense as a matter of course.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 388, September 5, 1829 by Various

We have entertained the thought that we have included more than one species in taurinus , but on the basis of preserved [Pg 36] specimens we are unable to detect consistent differences distinguishing two or more taxa.
— from A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William Edward Duellman

We can also explain why gardeners and farmers speak of black soils as rich soils; they contain more than other soils of this black material that makes plant food.
— from Lessons on Soil by Russell, Edward J. (Edward John), Sir

In attempting this, the methods the other sex have employed to honor and sustain their professions have been claimed, viz.:
— from Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People by Catharine Esther Beecher