We will present a stenographic report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Her father 14 was a petty lord 15 in the poor and savage regions of the north of Germany: 16 yet he derived some revenue from his silver mines; 17 and his family is celebrated by the Greeks as the most ancient and noble of the Teutonic name.
— 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

Clark, June 29, 1804] 29th of June 1804, Set out from the Kansas river 1/2 past 4 oClock, proceeded on passed a Small run on the L. S. at 1/2 Mile a (1) Island on the S. S. at 11/2 me.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The problem which he essayed, however lamely, to answer, was that of the connection between our psychic states considered purely as such, regardless of the objective connections of which they might take cognizance.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

excessively rapid and dificuelt to assend great numbers of dangerous places, and the fatigue which we have to encounter is incretiatable the men in the water from morning untill night hauling the Cord & boats walking on Sharp rocks and round Sliperery Stones which alternately cut their feet & throw them down, not with Standing all this dificuelty they go with great chearfulness, aded to those dificuelties the rattle Snakes inumerable & require great caution to prevent being bitten.—we passed a Small river on the Lard Side about 30 yards wide verry rapid which heads in the mountains to the S. E.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

While it never produced any startling results on them, it did no harm.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

And it is from Achæus that he quoted these verses against the politicians of the opposite party:— A speedy runner once was overtaken
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I heard the sound of voices from the closed parlors, and saw reposing on the rack before me several hats and canes, indicative of visitors.
— from Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" by Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield

Perhaps a "seasonable report of some invasion would have been spread in the most proper juncture," which is a great smoother of rubs in public proceedings; and we should have been told that "this was no time to create differences when the kingdom was in danger."
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Jonathan Swift

He who is indeed of the brotherhood does not voyage in quest of the picturesque, but of certain jolly humours—of the hope and spirit with which the march begins at morning, and the peace and spiritual repletion of the evening’s rest.
— from Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson

Otanes and Smerdis, chatting eagerly together, rode on as fast as the crowd would permit, and soon reached one of the gates in the huge walls that defended the city.
— from Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors by Various

When will these Khanats learn to see that a great part of their misfortunes, and the unsettled state of their political and social relations, originate in the perversity of their nature and conduct?
— from Sketches of Central Asia (1868) Additional chapters on my travels, adventures, and on the ethnology of Central Asia by Ármin Vámbéry

While stooping for this purpose, a slight rustling of leaves caught his ear; and ere he could look round, the fierce Osage sprang upon him with the bound of a tiger.
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

Among the Tubiporidæ may be noted Tubipora musica (Linnæus), from the Indian Ocean, characterised by its stony tubes, simple, numerous, straight or flexible, parallel, and slightly radiating, of a fine purple, and united together at intervals by transverse bands, so as to resemble the pipes of an organ.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

The condenser charged from this coil discharges into the primary circuit of a second coil through a small air gap, which is necessary to produce a sudden rush of current through the primary.
— from The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin

She swept by cantonments, villages, soldiers on the march, douairs of peaceful Arabs, strings of mules and camels, caravans of merchandise; nothing arrested her; she saw nothing that she passed, as she rode over the hard, dust-covered, shadowless roads; over the weary, sun-scorched, monotonous country; over the land without verdure and without foliage, the land that yet has so weird a beauty, so irresistible a fascination; the land to which men, knowing that death waits for them in it, yet return with as mad an infatuation as her lovers went back across the waters to Circe.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

When misery is the deepest, there is something awful in this perpetual and smiling round of natural movements.
— from Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper