The cold is excessive, and many of my unfortunate comrades have already found a grave amidst this scene of desolation.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I staid a week in New York City, visiting my uncle, Charles Hoyt, at his beautiful place on Brooklyn Heights, and my uncle James, then living in White Street.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The arrival of Mrs. Warrender's note made it still darker and more urgent, carrying him away upon its tide.
— from A Country Gentleman and His Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

These encouraging words, uttered in various tones of cheerful and insinuating politeness to each member of the party in succession, failed to make us comprehend how a gentleman and his wife, with a lean but rather lengthy English friend, and a bulky native of the Grisons, could 'accommodate themselves' collectively and undividedly with what was barely sufficient for their just moiety, however much it might afford a night's rest to their worse half.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

Following up this success, they advanced against the trenches, when a sharp action commenced that remained doubtful, until a party of Marines, under Captain Hepburn, arrived, [158] who charged the enemy, and forced them to retire with considerable loss.
— from An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps, from its Original Institution down to the Present Era, 1803 by Gillespie, Alexander, Major

Although the Slick Rock Member normally is salmon colored or pink, the upper half of an outcrop just north of the highest point on Rim Rock Drive at the head of main Ute Canyon has a distinctly mottled appearance, wherein much of the color has 43 been leached to white, but irregular splotches of color appear in the dominantly white upper part, and white splotches appear in the colored part, as shown in figure 18 .
— from The Geologic Story of Colorado National Monument Revised Edition by Stanley William Lohman

It was soon to appear that the great queen's most unlovely characteristic, her avarice; was a more blessed quality to the nation she ruled than the ridiculous prodigality of James.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

The very fact that he is able to do this makes us call him an artist.
— from The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

It was nearly eleven o'clock when Mr. Uhler came home; and then he brought in his clothes such rank fumes of tobacco, and his breath was so tainted with brandy, that his wife had no need of inquiry as to where he had spent his evening.
— from Home Lights and Shadows by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur