(All have gone out by different doors, some by the staircase.
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

214 A somewhat analogous practice is the ordeal by diving, described by the late Sir W. E. Maxwell as “a method of deciding a disputed point which was occasionally resorted to in Perak in former times.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Severus, who dreaded neither his arms nor his enchantments, guarded himself from the only danger of secret conspiracy, by the faithful attendance of six hundred chosen men, who never quitted his person or their cuirasses, either by night or by day, during the whole march.
— 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

"I can see the poor old bird ducking down side-streets, skulking in alley-ways, diving into dust-bins."
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

171 y 172, casi todos los viajeros de segunda y tercera clase se quedaron durmiendo o bostezando dentro de los coches, porque el frío penetrante de la 5 madrugada
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Up, and to my chamber, whither Jonas Moore comes, and, among other things, after our business done, discoursing of matters of the office, I shewed him my varnished things, which he says he can outdo much, and tells me the mighty use of Napier’s bones; [John Napier or Neper (1550-1617), laird of Merchiston (now swallowed up in the enlarged Edinburgh of to-day, although the old castle still stands), and the inventor of logarithms.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

As to the east side of the island, which I had gone round, I knew well enough there was no venturing that way; my very heart would shrink, and my very blood run chill, but to think of it; and as to the other side of the island, I did not know how it might be there; but supposing the current ran with the same force against the shore at the east as it passed by it on the other, I might run the same risk of being driven down the stream, and carried by the island, as I had been before of being carried away from it: so with these thoughts, I contented myself to be without any boat, though it had been the product of so many months’ labour to make it, and of so many more to get it into the sea.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Note 54 ( return ) [ Constantine only reckons seven cataracts, of which he gives the Russian and Sclavonic names; but thirteen are enumerated by the Sieur de Beauplan, a French engineer, who had surveyed the course and navigation of the Dnieper, or Borysthenes, (Description de l'Ukraine, Rouen, 1660, a thin quarto;) but the map is unluckily wanting in my copy.
— 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

Doth love my daughter, and she loveth him, Or both dissemble deeply their affections;
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

"And you're like the old boy," declared Denver.
— from Black Jack by Max Brand

Liszt played his own "Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude," as pathetic a piece, perhaps, as he ever composed, and of which he was very fond.
— from Memories of a Musical Life by William Mason

What art thou, that usurp'st this time of night, Together with that fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march?
— from All Men are Ghosts by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks

Her heart glows and thrills, and it is not burning pain or bitter, dumb despair that makes the strings vibrate; love is sounding the chords.
— from Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini

"Only I always fancy they're kind o'—kind o' better done, don't you think?
— from The Web of Time by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Knowles

Bal'ti more A'si a (a'shi a) Aulne (on) Bor deaux' (-do')
— from McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book by Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) McGuffey

I had the pleasure, too, of meeting the Chief Scout of Belgium, Dr. de Page, the director of a splendid hospital for Belgian soldiers given by the people of Great Britain.
— from Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

For the consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality.
— from Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

They find a rainbow, a sunrise, Where others but discern deep night.
— from Maurine and Other Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Had not Wharton dug his heels into a projection, he would have had to let go or be drawn downward with his friend, who could not help drawing tremendously on him.
— from Blazing Arrow: A Tale of the Frontier by Edward Sylvester Ellis