' Sikes made no reply; but, pulling open the door, of which Fagin had turned the lock, dashed into the silent streets.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Our busy factories and foundries—our copper, silver, and plumbago mines—our salt and petroleum—the increasing exports of native produce—speak volumes for the prosperity of the Dominion and for the government of those who are at the head of affairs.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Not in vain had he sung the praises of "the dear old brown liquor" in verse—true unto death.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When the evening for the "small party" came, she found that the poplin wouldn't do at all, for the other girls were putting on thin dresses, and making themselves very fine indeed; so out came the tarlatan, looking older, limper, and shabbier than ever beside Sallie's crisp new one.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

2 the third player opposite the dealer.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[According to Ramusio's version Baiburt was the third relay from Trebizund to Tauris, and travellers on their way from one of these cities to the other passed under this stronghold.—H. C.] The Russians, in retiring from it in 1829, blew up the greater part of the defences.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In this other squadron there come those that drink of the crystal streams of the olive-bearing Betis, those that make smooth their countenances with the water of the ever rich and golden Tagus, those that rejoice in the fertilising flow of the divine Genil, those that roam the Tartesian plains abounding in pasture, those that take their pleasure in the Elysian meadows of Jerez, the rich Manchegans crowned with ruddy ears of corn, the wearers of iron, old relics of the Gothic race, those that bathe in the Pisuerga renowned for its gentle current, those that feed their herds along the spreading pastures of the winding Guadiana famed for its hidden course, those that tremble with the cold of the pineclad Pyrenees or the dazzling snows of the lofty Apennine; in a word, as many as all Europe includes and contains."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And therefore when it is great heat, the pismires rest them in the earth, from prime of the day into noon.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Wherefore, as the fact of all using one language did not secure the absence of sin-infected men from the race,—for even before the deluge there was one language, and yet all but the single family of just Noah were found worthy of destruction by the flood,—so when the nations, by a prouder godlessness, earned the punishment of the dispersion and the confusion of tongues, and the city of the godless was called Confusion or Babylon, there was still the house of Heber in which the primitive language of the race survived.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The movement seemed a regular part of the programme of the day, and never occasioned any sensation.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Froude wishes us to believe that, almost to the last day of their sojourn with Claire and Byron in Switzerland, neither Shelley nor Mary Godwin had the faintest suspicion that Claire was Byron’s mistress; and that though Byron was at pains to have his mistress brought out to him, under cover of her travelling companions, he never saw her at Geneva, except in the presence of some witness to the propriety of their demeanour to one another.
— from The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Cordy Jeaffreson

In 1791, to aid in establishing the Federal City, as Washington was sometimes called, Virginia gave to the United States certain land taken from Fairfax County to form a part of the District of Columbia.
— from How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation by Martha W. (Martha Woodroof) Hiden

The difference between the number of representations and the total of performances of the different operas is due to the fact that on seven occasions two operas were given on the same afternoon or evening.
— from Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

May the reader, whatever be his line of life or sphere of action, know, in the profoundest depths of his soul, the moral power of this divine principle.
— from Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume II by Charles Henry Mackintosh

The heat, the scorch, the torrid pain of the day had calmed to the soft velvet caress of the indigo Desert night.
— from The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. Laut

Approaching the gate of the cemetery, with the intention of returning to my hotel, my eyes fell upon a tablet upon which were engraved the following words:—'Respect the property of the Dead.
— from Wanderings in India, and Other Sketches of Life in Hindostan by John Lang

they say that you give away a great deal of that sort of medicine among the poor of this district sometimes.
— from The Threatening Eye by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight

In addition, we were able to get many pictures of the dancing, and Crespinell even took some of Sugden and myself doing our best to be true Swazi indunas.
— from Adventures in Swaziland: The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil

The compact and broad mass of iron that rushed down the ravines seemed irresistible, and when I cast a glance on the irregular and waving lines behind me I felt the whole peril of the day.
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly