For patience, reader, I must plead!
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

the towering and projecting rocks in many places seem ready to tumble on us.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

the river is confined closely between clifts of perpendicular rocks in most parts.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

It finds no partisans; rather, it may pursue its way as silently and unheeded through such a philosophical riot as through the winter night of the darkest century bound in the rigid faith of the church, when it was communicated only to a few alchemists as esoteric learning, or entrusted it may be only to the parchment.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Respecting their religion however he says only two words ‘coli Herculem,’ by whom probably Rama is meant (Priaulx p. 116).
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

The water fills the vessel to the brim, and is allowed to overflow it in a steady stream, thus presenting a surface which, being perpetually renewed, is maintained perfectly clean.
— from A Study of Splashes by A. M. (Arthur Mason) Worthington

There is no pious resignation in my proud soul for indeed 'there are chastisements that do not chasten; there are trials that do not purify, and sorrows that do not elevate; there are pains and privations that harden the tender heart, without softening the stubborn will.'
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Many present rushed in mad panic to the doors, fell, and were trampled underfoot by the rest.
— from The Death of the Gods (Christ and Antichrist, 1 of 3) by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

My studies were not difficult, and my principal recollection is my playing out of doors with a dog named Sancho, while the older children were busy inside with their studies.
— from As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Marian Gouverneur

The most remarkable of these is found along the vale below Puttern Edge, and called “Dean’s Road,” where the pitching remains in many places, being about eight feet in width.
— from The Forest of Dean: An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls

The instruments of force and terror used to carry out this program reached into many phases of Polish life.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 3 by Various

The different Italian cities on the hill-sides, the vistas down the long streets, with palaces and churches on either side, half-open missals, Biblical musical instruments, rolls of manuscript music, birds in gay plumage, all perfectly represented in minute pieces of wood, excite the wonder of every one whose privilege it is to examine them at leisure."
— from Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various