Mr. Brown was just weathering the corner by Peter Goldthwaite's house when the hurricane caught him off his feet, tossed him face downward into a snow-bank and proceeded to bury his protuberant part beneath fresh drifts.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The sophistry which has been employed to show that this will tend to the destruction of the State governments, will, in its will, in its proper place, be fully detected.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Why are we shifting this poor baby from door to door?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Espero asociarme con personas buenas fuera de Haití, con el fin de avanzar hacia un ideal de fraternidad en nuestro mundo.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

After a protracted but fruitless discussion of over four hours, they withdrew from the room, declining to accept or to suggest any overtures.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

When we are conscious of the presence of an irritating particle in our nostrils or windpipe—that is, when the same sensory nerve-cells are excited, as in the case of sneezing and coughing—we can voluntarily expel the particle by forcibly driving air through these passages; but we cannot do this with nearly the same force, rapidity, and precision, as by a reflex action.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

On GRANBY'S cheek might bid new glories rise, Or point a purer beam from DEVON'S eyes!
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

[It has been purloined by fifty different scribblers who were too poor to invent a fancy but not ashamed to steal one.—M. T.]) that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition,—and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Its only real advantage is the chance of a little more display than is permitted by full dress, and perhaps this is less than it seems and a woman gains less than she thinks.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If they do no other good, they do this at least, that they prepare patients betimes for death, by little and little undermining and cutting off the use of life.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Auberry, as it chanced, fell in with a party bound for Denver, five men who had two wagons, a heavy Conestoga freight wagon, or prairie schooner, and a lighter vehicle without a cover.
— from The Way of a Man by Emerson Hough

On both the traveller often perishes, but from different causes.
— from Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

And when the new fanaticism threatened the financial stability of the pews, the pulpits instead of exerting themselves in behalf of the suffering and dumb slaves, exerted themselves to preserve the prosperity of the pews by frowning down the friends of the slaves.
— from William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké

A large stone pedestal bore four dials at the four corners, and “the great horizontal concave” in the centre; besides east, west, north, and south dials at the sides.
— from Things to be Remembered in Daily Life With Personal Experiences and Recollections by John Timbs

Germany's cadmium is produced by fractional distillation of the Silesian zinc ores, which contain at most 0.3 per cent cadmium.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

And so the few learned works produced here have to be provided by foreigners domiciled at Rome.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

428.—Prony brake for determining brake horse power.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 02 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

PLUMER BURNS, formerly Director Ann Arbor PUBLISHED
— from Michigan Trees: A Handbook of the Native and Most Important Introduced Species by Charles Herbert Otis

This meant supplying the paraphernalia in loans, checks, and cash necessary to pay in the seventy-five millions capital, thirty-nine millions of which must at once be "book-keepingly" available to pay for the property bought from Daly, Haggin, and Tevis, and purchased by the company.
— from Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson

I must dwell on this subject longer than others, for nearly one hundred years ago that golden patriot, Benjamin Franklin drew up a plan of union for the then colonies of Great Britain that now are such an independent nation, which, among many wise provisions for obedient children under their father's more rugged hand,--thus: "they have power to make laws, and lay and levy such general duties, imports, or taxes as to them shall appear most equal and just,--(considering the ability and other circumstances of the inhabitants in the several colonies,) and such as may be collected with the least inconvenience to the people; rather discouraging luxury, than loading industry with unnecessary burthens."
— from General Smith's Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States by Smith, Joseph, Jr.