With this they can dig through a wall noiselessly and quickly, and many houses are thus broken into in one night, until a good loot is obtained.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Encouraged by the knowledge that her work during the country’s wars had at last won a measure of national understanding and gratitude, she again did every thing in her power to break down the old Prussian Court barrier between the “born” and the “not born.”
— from The Empress Frederick: a memoir by Anonymous

The landing of the British had been previously effected on the 22d of August, 1776, without opposition, near Utrecht and Gravesend, on the southwest end of the island.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

Ohlsen fell asleep, but on awakening was of no use as guide owing to his delirious condition.
— from Explorers and Travellers by A. W. (Adolphus Washington) Greely

He sat in the midst of the council of Nicæa upon a golden throne, and as he had little Greek, we must suppose he was reduced to watching the countenances and gestures of the debaters, and listening to their intonations.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The closing years of Sir Edwin’s long, otherwise not unhappy, and generally laborious life were darkened in the manner we have already indicated rather than described.
— from Sir Edwin Landseer by Frederic George Stephens

Whereupon she knew further resistance was of no use, and going hastily to the door of the room, called out— “Good-bye, then, grandpapa.”
— from Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

He designated the victims and the executioners—only in exceptional cases, as in those of Merula and Catulus, was any form of law observed; not unfrequently a glance or the silence with which he received those who saluted him formed the sentence of death, which was always executed at once.
— from The History of Rome, Book IV The Revolution by Theodor Mommsen

Mrs. Brown 'n' me has been friends 'n' good friends for too many years to break off sudden, but still I never 'xpected 's she'd be one to try a new receipt on me 'n' never give me my choice's to whether I'd risk it or not until a good fifteen minutes after I'd swallowed the last bite.
— from Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop by Anne Warner

Mr. Adams, with enlarged views of national unity and general prosperity, counselled moderation to both parties.
— from Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States With the Eulogy Delivered Before the Legislature of New York by William Henry Seward

There can be little doubt that this represents the process by which gods which are now admittedly within the inner circle of the first class, such as the beast incarnations of Vishnu, the elephant-headed Ganesa, and the Sâktis or impersonations of the female energies of nature, underwent a gradual elevation.
— from The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 1 (of 2) by William Crooke