Finding that there was nobody in sight, he presently returned into the house with his legal friend, protesting (as the child heard from the staircase), that there was a league and plot against him; that he was in danger of being robbed and plundered by a band of conspirators who prowled about the house at all seasons; and that he would delay no longer but take immediate steps for disposing of the property and returning to his own peaceful roof.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Having therefore first examined him privately, and then confronted him with me and the young girl, his majesty began to think that what we told him might possibly be true.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

All in that region was fire and commotion; the soup and fish were in the last stage of projection, and the cook hung over her crucibles in a frame of mind and body threatening spontaneous combustion.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

exclaimed Miss Mowcher, making a preposterous attempt to cover her large face with her morsel of a hand.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Thus a young Dog reflected, mad with pain, As they cropped his long ears, but his cries were in vain, And he thought himself lost; but he found, one fine day.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

If he has a friend here, he will save him the disgrace of the paltry attempt to conceal his name—and utterly useless one—for I will find it out, nor leave him until I have.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

But now with the art of Writing, with the art of Printing, a total change has come over that business.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

This day I heard my Lord Barkeley tell Sir G. Carteret that he hath letters from France that the King hath unduked twelve Dukes, only to show his power and to crush his nobility, who he said he did see had heretofore laboured to cross him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Go to water —This rite, as practiced among the Cherokee, has been already noted in the chapter on stories and story tellers.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

" [237] The celebrated Abipones honour with silver altars and adoration the moon, which they call the consort of the sun, and certain stars, which they term the handmaids of the moon: but their most singular idea is that the Pleiades represent their grandfather; and "as that constellation disappears at certain periods from the sky of South America, upon such occasions they suppose that their grandfather is sick, and are under a yearly apprehension that he is going to die; but as soon as those seven stars are again visible in the month of May, they welcome their grandfather, as if returned and restored from sickness, with joyful shouts, and the festive sound of pipes and trumpets, congratulating him on the recovery of his health.
— from Moon Lore by Timothy Harley

The place, and the country half a mile on each side, was occupied by McCall's division.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

[Pg 173] one after another, useful crumbs for the pie, according to counterpoint, harmony of the different instruments, &c.
— from Science and the Infinite; or, Through a Window in the Blank Wall by Sydney T. (Sydney Turner) Klein

That President Shannon is hereby requested to furnish a copy of his address to this Convention for publication; and the Convention hereby expresses the desire that he will deliver his address in as many counties in this State, as his duties will allow.
— from Address to the People of the United States, together with the Proceedings and Resolutions of the Pro-Slavery Convention of Missouri, Held at Lexington, July 1855 by Unknown

The Sufis are the saints of Mohammedanism, they are those who aspire after the union of the individual "I" with the [242] cosmic "I," of man with God; they are frequently endowed with wonderful powers, and their chiefs have almost always been thaumaturgists.
— from Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution by Théophile Pascal

And Madame Gerard would most good-naturedly pay for the cabs needed by the lady “on foot” to go out to dine, or to the play, and to come home again.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

When King Svein of Denmark was pursuing King Harald with an overwhelming force, “He (Harald) bid the men lighten his (ship) by throwing overboard malt, wheat, and pork, and to cut holes in the ale-barrels: this helped awhile.
— 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

They replied that he was greater than his father; for he possessed all that Cyrus had possessed, and Egypt and the sea in addition.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6 (of 6) by Max Duncker

Here the answer was not so plain, and the curate had to think.
— from Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2 by George MacDonald

He lingered a little in the rooms below, to pack all the cigars he had, some papers, a crush hat, a silver cigarette box, a Ruff's Guide.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy