“You see we have reached their settlement or encampment,” whispered the young man; “and here is one of the savages himself, in a very embarrassing position for our further movements.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

I found this single sheet upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Bajazet was particularly fond of flying his hawks at cranes, (Chalcondyles, l. ii.
— 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

In the case of the mistletoe, which draws its nourishment from certain trees, which has seeds that must be transported by certain birds, and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from one flower to the other, it is equally preposterous to account for the structure of this parasite, with its relations to several distinct organic beings, by the effects of external conditions, or of habit, or of the volition of the plant itself.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

In many other cases, far from there being any aids for self-fertilisation, there are special contrivances, as I could show from the writings of C. C. Sprengel and from my own observations, which effectually prevent the stigma receiving pollen from its own flower: for instance, in Lobelia fulgens, there is a really beautiful and elaborate contrivance by which every one of the infinitely numerous pollen-granules are swept out of the conjoined anthers of each flower, before the stigma of that individual flower is ready to receive them; and as this flower is never visited, at least in my garden, by insects, it never sets a seed, though by placing pollen from one flower on the stigma of another, I raised plenty of seedlings; and whilst another species of Lobelia growing close by, which is visited by bees, seeds freely.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

During his quaestorship he pronounced funeral orations from the rostra, according to custom, in praise of his aunt (5) Julia, and his wife Cornelia.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight, appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The first column of prisoners files off for France to-day.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

The first becomes a Catholic, because he assented, as a Protestant, to the doctrine of our Lord's divinity, with a real assent and a genuine conviction, and because this certitude, taking possession of his mind, led him on to welcome the Catholic doctrines of the Real Presence and of the Theotocos, till his Protestantism fell off from him, and he submitted himself to the Church.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

And they spoke with one another in his great tent, which Tahutia had placed far off from the soldiers.
— from Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri: Second series, XVIIIth to XIXth dynasty by W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie

Poor Keats, who was passionately fond of flowers, and everything beautiful or romantic or picturesque, complains, with a true poet's earnestness, that in his day in England there were No crowds of nymphs, soft-voiced and young and gay In woven baskets, bringing ears of corn, Roses and pinks and violets, to adorn The shrine of Flora in her early May.
— from Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson

[Pg 112] of self and its possessions for others for His sake (ver. 16); "doing good, and communicating" blessings; for these are "altar-sacrifices (θυσίαι) with which God is well pleased."
— from Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

How many men are there who let this perpetual fear of financial disaster gnaw at their minds like a rat in the dark?
— from Success (Second Edition) by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron

The pirate fleet opened fire.
— from The Pirates of Shan: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

—on the climate of Peru. —on salt deposits of Cobija. —on crystals of gypsum in salt-lakes. —on absence of gypsum in the Pampean formation. —on fossil remains from Bahia Blanca. —on fossil remains from the banks of the Parana. —on the geology of St. Fe. —on the age of Pampean formation. —on the Mastodon Andium. —on the geology of the Rio Negro. —on the character of the Patagonian fossils. —on fossils from Concepcion. — —from Coquimbo. — —from Payta. —on fossil tertiary shells of Chile. —on cretaceous fossils of Tierra del Fuego. — —from the Cordillera of Chile.
— from Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin

The defenders gave no sign of their presence, no pistol flashed out from window or loophole.
— from The Lion of the North: A Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

“I will pay Fanny off for laughing at me,” he muttered, as he ran quickly, with Lucy in his arms, towards the plot of ground at the farthest end, near Fanny’s garden which had remained uncultivated.
— from Norman Vallery; or, How to Overcome Evil with Good by William Henry Giles Kingston