When entirely destitute of animal food, the different variety of squirrels supplied us with pies, stews, and roasts.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

A plume of smoke soared up suddenly from her father's chimney, the sight of which made her heart ache.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Nor our strong sorrow Upon the foot of motion.
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The conquerors of Chili and Peru, and of almost all the other Spanish settlements upon the continent of America, carried out with them no other public encouragement, but a general permission to make settlements and conquests in the name of the king of Spain.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

He who kills his own slave shall undergo a purification, but if he kills the slave of another in anger, he shall pay twice the amount of the loss to his owner.
— from Laws by Plato

On one wall, however, there hung a list of regulations of some sort under a two-headed eagle in a grey wooden frame, and on another wall in the same sort of frame an engraving with the inscription, “The Indifference of Man.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Other narcotics are seldom given or sold save under their own names; and if administered in combination, in quack medicine or unexplained prescriptions, their effect betrays itself.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various

Just before the first battle in the Downs, which took place on May 19th, 1652, Blake observed that Van Tromp, the Dutch admiral, bore nearer to his fleet than he had any occasion to do, and so saluted him with two guns without ball, to put him in mind of striking sail; upon which the Dutchman, in contempt, fired on the contrary side.
— from Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

No one could conceive the amount of tearing and patching that is for ever going on; could either a friend or stranger see us in our present garb, our appearance would scarcely be thought even picturesque; for a more patched and ragged set of tatterdemalions it would be difficult to find upon the face of the earth.
— from Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest Giles

If these appearances of [Pg 211] adaptation were fallacious, if the apparent utility were undesigned, the chances against the perpetual recurrence of so singularly useful, rather than of some totally useless, set of combinations would be a multiple of innumerosity similar to that which has clearly been shown to represent the preponderance of probability against the constant repetition of any set of combinations whatever, whether useful or useless.
— from Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

This was their arrangement: An open space, sometimes used as a woodyard, was next the garden of the Hotel Campvallon.
— from Monsieur de Camors — Volume 3 by Octave Feuillet

Meanwhile, those that remained on shore set up a tremendous shouting and yelling, at the same time shaking their ponchos violently with the intent to frighten all the rest of the troop down the steep embankment, where, encouraged at the sight of the two ahead, they all entered the stream and followed their leaders without further difficulty.
— from Travels and adventures in South and Central America. First series Life in the Llanos of Venezuela by Ramón Páez

A member of his own Society summed up the case very justly in few words.
— from Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life by Lydia Maria Child