Straying at random, obeying the push of every chance elbow, I was brought to a quarter where trees planted in clusters, or towering singly, broke up somewhat the dense packing of the crowd, and gave it a more scattered character.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

There was a coffin, a niche in which to put it, chanting of the service and special prayers.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

A considerable portion of the night passed in conversation of this sort, and though Don Juan wished Don Quixote to read more of the book to see what it was all about, he was not to be prevailed upon, saying that he treated it as read and pronounced it utterly silly; and, if by any chance it should come to its author's ears that he had it in his hand, he did not want him to flatter himself with the idea that he had read it; for our thoughts, and still more our eyes, should keep themselves aloof from what is obscene and filthy.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Nor is there required such profound knowledge to discover the present imperfect condition of the sciences, but even the rabble without doors may, judge from the noise and clamour, which they hear, that all goes not well within.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

He then commanded Amyntas, son of Arrhabaeus, to make the first rush into the river at the 45 head of the skirmishing cavalry, the Paeonians, and one regiment of infantry; and in front of these he had placed Ptolemy, son of Philip, in command of the squadron of Socrates, which body of men indeed on that day happened to have the lead of all the cavalry force.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Not content with interposing many obstacles to either the partial or complete emancipation of slaves, by quibbles respecting the number, condition and difference of those who were to be manumitted; he likewise enacted that none who had been put in chains or tortured, should ever obtain the freedom of the city in any degree.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Upon hearing this, the persons whom they addressed now went round the soldiers one by one, and urged them to resist, especially the crew of the Paralus, which was made up entirely of Athenians and freemen, and had from time out of mind been enemies of oligarchy, even when there was no such thing existing; and Leon and Diomedon left behind some ships for their protection in case of their sailing away anywhere themselves.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

In the morning he said angrily: "It is enough to make one ashamed before the maid who does the beds," and took a bottle of red ink that happened to be in the room, and poured its contents on the sheet, but not on the place where such a stain would have been justifiable.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

It was probably in consequence of this similarity of name, in a great degree, that the gardens of the Hesperides were assigned to this locality.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

2 This versicle, found in the booklets of prayer, is common on the scapularies, which, during the late insurrection, were easily converted into the anting-anting , or amulets, worn by the fanatics.—Tr.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

The first, which has neither temples, nor altars, nor rites, and is confined to the purely internal cult of the supreme God and the eternal obligations of morality, is the religion of the Gospel pure and simple, the true theism, what may be called natural divine right or law.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If there were two or three who went with doubtful minds, prepared to exult at the depression of the blacks, but thinking it well to bespeak protection, in case of the struggle ending the wrong way—if there was a sprinkling of such among the throng of whites who joined the cavalcade from the cross-roads, they shrunk away abashed before the open countenance of the Deliverer, and stole homewards to wait the guidance of events.
— from The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

This is a deep meditation, though the position is capable of the strictest proof,—namely, that there can be no I without a Thou, and that a Thou is only possible by an equation in which I is taken as equal to Thou, and yet not the same.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Histories akin to these (and, at the root, there is more of history than of legend in all of them) are to be delved out of our own records; but the French have been more candid in the matter, and a good deal more skilled with the pen in chronicles of the sort.
— from The Dungeons of Old Paris Being the Story and Romance of the Most Celebrated Prisons of the Monarchy and the Revolution by Tighe Hopkins

And, as we have seen, the “bluff” worked to perfection, possibly in consequence of the slight, but none the less perceptible, tone of sarcasm in which Jack made the offer.
— from The Cruise of the Thetis: A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Harry Collingwood

Hastily we left our ponies in charge of the syces, detailed two other hunters to remain also, and with the remaining followers prepared to stalk.
— from Two Dianas in Somaliland: The Record of a Shooting Trip by Agnes Herbert

This globe rotates also around its own axis and virtually in the same direction, according to which it performs its course or the sun rotates.
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken