As may be seen, the sailor’s confidence in the tutelary deity of his island was absolute, and, certainly, the occult power, manifested until now in so many inexplicable ways, appeared to be unlimited; but also it knew how to escape the colonists’ most minute researches, for, in spite of all their efforts, in spite of the more than zeal,—the obstinacy,—with which they carried on their exploration, the retreat of the mysterious being could not be discovered.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Hans went quietly to work—a work which neither my uncle nor I would have undertaken at any price.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

He likewise exhibited a great number of Circensian games from morning until night; intermixed with the hunting of wild beasts from Africa, or the Trojan exhibition.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

But among kings and lords of all the world Mingles undaunted, nor is overawed By gleam of gold nor by the splendour bright Of purple robe, canst thou then doubt that this Is aught, but power of thinking?—when, besides
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

I am nursing myself up now into as beautiful a state as I can, because I hear that Dr. White means to call on me before he leaves the country.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle Ned in Auckland.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Much sorry stuff, written some hundred years ago or more, about the "Divine right of Kings," moulders unread now in the Public Libraries of this country.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

You would not write to each other but upon the most urgent necessity in the world; and when obliged to take up the pen to say that such a horse is ill, or such a relation dead, it is done in the fewest possible words.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

To a performer on the piano, who has to light rapidly and simultaneously on a number of tones, or to a violinist who has to leap through several octaves with great rapidity, the most urgent need is that of a definite and fixed mark, by which the absolute pitch of each successive tone may be at once recognised.
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley

And I know full well that the strangers' faces Would meet us now in our dearest places; For our day is dead and has left no traces
— from The Man from Snowy River by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

The Lord Mavor's Show, the last remnant of the antique spectacular taste, does not move us now; it is held a public nuisance; it provokes the rude "chaff" of the streets.
— from Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith

On the following day we marched unceasingly northward in the direction of Luxemburg.
— from The Red Battle Flyer by Richthofen, Manfred, Freiherr von

Lut-dàm-īk-nòn ; lut , verb, “enter,” dàm , verb, “go”; īk , honorific address = “elder brother” (though he is speaking to his maternal uncles); nòn imperative particle.
— from The Mikirs by Edward Stack

The number of inhabitants of the city and its liberties in the reign of Elizabeth has been estimated at 150,000 (Motley, "United Netherlands," i, 306).
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 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

For as the physician, if it be expedient, infuses saffron or spikenard, aye, or uses some soothing fomentation or feeds his patient up liberally, and sometimes orders castor, "Or poley, 388 that so strong and foully smells," or pounds hellebore and compels him to drink it,—neither in the one case making unpleasantness, nor in the other pleasantness, his end and aim, but in both studying only the interest of his patient,—so the friend sometimes by praise and kindness, extolling him and gladdening his heart, leads him to what is noble, as Agamemnon, "Teucer, dear head, thou son of Telamon, Go on thus shooting, captain of thy men;" 389 or Diomede, "How could I e'er forget divine Odysseus?"
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch