When the Houses of Parliament, at the east end
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Listen to him: "It was just after the ballet; and leaders and dancing-girls lost no time in taking their precautions against the evil eye."
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

this account is no doubt some what exagerated but it serves to evince the certainty of the Multnomah being a very large river and that it's waters are seperated from the Columbia by those mountains and that with the aid of a southwardly branch of Lewis's river which passes arrond the eastern extremity of those mountains, it must water that vast tract of country extending from those mountains to the waters of the gulph of California.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In order to diffuse and cultivate so accomplished a character, nothing can be more useful than compositions of the easy style and manner, which draw not too much from life, require no deep application or retreat to be comprehended, and send back the student among mankind full of noble sentiments and wise precepts, applicable to every exigence of human life.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

The greatest demonstration of all, however, was at the entrance of my new acquaintance, Professor Challenger, when he passed down to take his place at the extreme end of the front row of the platform.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

So I went out presently, and by coach home, and they were just gone away so, after a very little stay with my wife, I took coach again, and to the King’s playhouse again, and come in the fourth act; and it proves to me a very silly play, and to everybody else, as far as I could judge.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In the highest division and range of niches, place at the extreme ends vessels fashioned so as to give the note of the diatonic hyperbolaeon; next, the diatonic diezeugmenon, a fourth below; third, the diatonic synhemmenon; fourth, the diatonic meson, a fourth below; fifth, the diatonic hypaton, a fourth below; sixth, the [145] proslambanomenos, a fourth below; in the middle, the note mese, for this is both the octave to proslambanomenos, and the concord of the fifth to the diatonic hypaton.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Looking upon France as the chief enemy of England, and upon the sea and the colonies as the chief source of power and wealth, he wished, now that he had her down, to weaken her thoroughly for the future as well as the present, and to establish England's greatness more firmly upon the wreck.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

It is, however, generally placed at the east extremity of that great bend of the Nile which skirts the desert of Bahiouda, and near Mount Birkel.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

At midnight of the 26th of April Law's party approached the English encampment.
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 2 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir

misery,—misery so great, so overwhelming and paralysing, as to enfeeble every energy, and to render the unhappy object of it too hopeless, too despairing, even to attempt to extricate himself from the squalor of his utter destitution, and he crouches in his dirt and desolation like an animal in its den.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue

Wings reddish dark brown; the anterior ones having two faint blue spots near the lower corners; and the posterior having a little group of bloody spots at the shoulders, with a row of the same coloured spots (five in all) placed along the external edges near the abdominal corners.
— from Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3 by Dru Drury

He sent her a present—a chain supposed to possess power against the evil eye.
— from A Girl of the North: A Story of London and Canada by Susan Morrow Jones

Then two armed men, who stood at the distance of about fifty feet, ran forward, and after some menacing flourishes of their arms, mounted over the closed shields, from the bottom to the top of this roof; and, treading as steadily as if on solid ground, sometimes paraded along the extreme edges of it, as if repelling an enemy, and sometimes encountered each other on the middle of it.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

It would be necessary to impose a life assurance payment upon these parents, and to exact effectual guarantees against every possible evasion of the responsibility they had incurred.
— from A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

THE INHABITANTS OF PARADISE: PARACELSUS AND THE EMERALD: EARLY CHRISTIAN EMBLEM:
— from The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky

Hitherto Wyclif had simply protested against the external evils of the Church without much effect, although protected by powerful laymen and encouraged by popular favor.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord

She knew nothing about poisons and their effects, except that carbolic caused terrible agony, and laudanum was not to be trusted unless you knew the dose.
— from The Invader: A Novel by Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa) Woods

There was a momentary pause, as though everybody expected more to come, but Lilian was silent, and her father exclaimed: "H'm!
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang