He wrote a few lines to my lady, telling her that he was going to carry her away from Audley Court to a place from which she was not likely to return, and requesting her to lose no time in preparing for the journey.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Now, this is precisely what ought to be the case, if we suppose a resistance experienced from the comet from an extremely rare ethereal medium pervading the regions of its orbit.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

But Aristobulus repented immediately of this slaughter of his brother; on which account his disease increased upon him, and he was disturbed in his mind, upon the guilt of such wickedness, insomuch that his entrails were corrupted by his intolerable pain, and he vomited blood: at which time one of the servants that attended upon him, and was carrying his blood away, did, by Divine Providence, as I cannot but suppose, slip down, and shed part of his blood at the very place where there were spots of Antigonus's blood, there slain, still remaining; and when there was a cry made by the spectators, as if the servant had on purpose shed the blood on that place, Aristobulus heard it, and inquired what the matter was; and as they did not answer him, he was the more earnest to know what it was, it being natural to men to suspect that what is thus concealed is very bad: so upon his threatening, and forcing them by terrors to speak, they at length told him the truth; whereupon he shed many tears, in that disorder of mind which arose from his consciousness of what he had done, and gave a deep groan, and said, "I am not therefore, I perceive, to be concealed from God, in the impious and horrid crimes I have been guilty of; but a sudden punishment is coming upon me for the shedding the blood of my relations.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

[179] In a word, Hobbes reduced human nature to its purely animal aspects, and then asserted confidently that there was nothing more to study.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Nothing that is patched up can have the lustre of the unimpaired, and rumour will recount for ages that Frode was taken captive.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

I lost no time, I promise you; and when I came back into the round-house, I found the gentleman had taken a money-belt from about his waist, and poured out a guinea or two upon the table.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Prince Andrew did not think it proper to write and challenge Kurágin.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

The allurements of the agrarian law, now that its proposer was gone, were of themselves gaining ground in their minds; and this feeling was further heightened by the parsimonious conduct of the senators, who, the Volsci and Æqui having been defeated that year, defrauded the soldiers of the booty; whatever was taken from the enemy, the consul Fabius sold, and lodged the proceeds in the treasury.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

I will note, too, in passing, that although many in our town knew of the grotesque and monstrous rivalry of the Karamazovs, father and son, the object of which was Grushenka, scarcely any one understood what really underlay her attitude to both of them.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

bárut n the inedible pulp of the jackfruit which surrounds the edible flesh.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I own I thought that you would do something brilliant, and it was for that purpose that I tried to draw off the eye of that scoundrel Florus, for, sot as he is, there are not ten in Palestine keener in all points where roguery is concerned.
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

The most northern town in Palestine was Dan [mark D. on the map]; the most southern was Beersheba [mark B.].
— from Bible Atlas: A Manual of Biblical Geography and History by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

Now there is Pepys [271] ; you praised that man with such disproportion, that I was incited to lessen him, perhaps more than he deserves [272] .
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

Gregory lost no time in preliminaries.
— from El Diablo by Brayton Norton

In the winter the park is closed to travel by deep snow, but in the early spring the blanket of snow is replaced by a mantle of flowers that change with the seasons, and to the story of the prehistoric inhabitants is added an absorbing story of nature that is peculiar to this mesa and canyon country.
— from Mesa Verde [Colorado] National Park by United States. Department of the Interior

They are generally a concomitant of neck tics, in particular of mental torticollis.
— from Tics and Their Treatment by Henry Meige

It was erected in no sentimental spirit, but for very practical purposes, and at a date when Watling’s Island had not been identified with the Guanahani of Columbus’s landfall; and yet of all the monuments that have been raised to him I can think of nothing more appropriate than this lonely tower that stands by day amid the bright sunshine in the track of the trade wind, and by night throws its powerful double flash every half-minute across the dark lonely sea.
— from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete by Filson Young

The reason is a simple one, and we should be proud of our age: labor, of which Christianity has made a duty, had not then in political society the great and legitimate importance it has now.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various