They do not dare to stop even at dinner time, nor return to the quarters, however late it be, until the order to halt is given by the driver.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Crossing over to his desk with headlong strides, he sat down violently.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Does this ultra-Spartan system of "drilling the nerves" strike the modern pedagogist with horror and doubt—doubt whether the tendency would not be brutalizing, nipping in the bud the tender emotions of the heart?
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

[1442] butter; and so at this day in Greece, as [1443] Bellonius observes, they had much rather feed on fish than flesh.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Although I believe the best judges are now of opinion that his impecuniosity has been overcharged, he certainly had experiences which did not often fall to the lot of even a cadet of good family in the eighteenth century.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Thus Odin, wounded by the double trespass of his wife, resented the outrage to his image as keenly as that to his bed; and, ruffled by these two stinging dishonours, took to an exile overflowing with noble shame, imagining so to wipe off the slur of his ignominy.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

As soon as the last of them had quitted the settlement, the [ 209 ] headmen brought a large quantity of fresh cow-dung, and placed a ball of it on the head of the victim.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Fortunately in this country, when you dine in a friend's house you do not "tip" the butler, nor do you tip a footman or parlor-maid who takes your card to the mistress of the house, nor when you leave a country house do you have to give more than five dollars to any one whatsoever.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The pride, that had rendered him so obnoxious to his humbler neighbours, yielded at length to the inordinate craving for drink; the man who had held himself so high above his honest and industrious fellow-settlers, could now unblushingly enter their cabins and beg for a drop of whiskey.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Whilst they were in rubbing of him, there was read unto him some chapter of the holy Scripture aloud and clearly, with a pronunciation fit for the matter, and hereunto was appointed a young page born in Basche, named Anagnostes.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Make ye sure to each his own That he reap where he hath sown; By the peace among Our peoples let men know we serve the Lord! . . . . .
— from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling

Monk's face—Superfluous virtue—"Welcome to Montserrat"—Mean advantage—Exacting but not mercenary—Another Miguel—Missing keys—Singular monk—Hospederia—Uncertainty—Monk's idea of luxury—Rare prospect—Haunted by silence—Father Salvador privileged—Monk sees ghosts—Under Miguel's escort—In the church—Departed glory—The black image—Gothic and Norman outlines—Franciscan monk or ghost?—Vision of the past—Days of persecution—Sensible image—Great community—Harmony of the spheres—Sad cypresses—Life of a hermit—Monk's story—Loving the world—Penitence—Plucked from the burning—Talent developed—A world apart—False interest—Salvador—Temptation and a compromise—Salvador extemporises—"All the magic of the hour"—Salvador's belief—Waiting for manifestations.
— from Glories of Spain by Charles W. (Charles William) Wood

Then they galloped off, and Harald followed the whole way at the shoulder of the horse.
— from The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2) The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

The necessity for this was made evident by Kemble himself:— ‘But while he makes the necessary corrections, no man is justified in withholding the original readings: for although the laws of a language, ascertained by wide and careful examination of all the cognate tongues, of the hidden springs and ground-principles upon which they rest in common, are like the laws of the Medes and Persians and alter not, yet the very errors of the old writer are valuable, and serve sometimes as guides and clues to the inner being and spiritual tendencies of the language itself.
— from The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

Having fled from the United States in the hours of the Revolution, fancy now the thoughts of these honest people as they faced the prospect of their land of refuge being invaded by an army from the land below the lakes!
— from The Niagara River by Archer Butler Hulbert

Next, the master of the house and some of the guests went out of the hut and offered libations before the bear's cage.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

A man of pretorian rank affirmed upon oath, that he saw his spirit ascend from the funeral pile to heaven.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Breakfast finished, and the remainder of the ham stowed away in the milk-pan, they carefully skirted the house on the rise of the hill, and coming out once more upon the road, they forged ahead.
— from Anything Once by Isabel Ostrander

It was well known to the officers of the "Harris Light" that their regiment had not met Kilpatrick's expectations on the field of Brandy Station, and on the morning of this battle they had asked their general for "an opportunity to retrieve their reputation."
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

The view from the little pavilion is indeed a gratifying one, for though not extended, it is so entirely choice and picturesque; while the name of the eminence on which it stands, and from which some of the healing springs are said to rise, is decidedly appropriate, since there can be no doubt that they have proved a "mine of wealth" to several, although, as M. Taine remarks, it is "grotesque that a little hot water should have caused the introduction of civilised cooking in its very cauldrons."
— from 'Twixt France and Spain Or, A Spring in the Pyrenees by E. Ernest Bilbrough