The pain she experienced from the almost absolute obliviousness to her existence that was shown by the pair of them became at times half dissipated by her sense of its humourousness.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

But whenever a more popular orator proposed to vindicate the meanest citizen from either foreign or domestic injury, whenever he called upon his fellow-countrymen to assert the national honor, or to pursue some enterprise full of danger and glory, a loud clashing of shields and spears expressed the eager applause of the assembly.
— 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

All chance meetings on week-days were likewise carefully prevented; for, lest I should go to see poor Nancy Brown or any other person, Miss Murray took good care to provide sufficient employment for all my leisure hours.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Parce, puer, stimulis et fortius utere loris —Boy, spare the goad and more firmly grasp the reins.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

52 "When you behold such striking instances of the effects of honouring or neglecting the deity, do you perceive what an act of impiety we are about to perpetrate, scarcely emerging from the wreck of our former misconduct and calamity?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

proroger , suspendre et fixer à une date ultérieure les séances de; prolonger le temps accordé pour faire une chose.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Neither are such enmities unappeasable and permanent: since even for so great a crime as homicide, compensation is made by a fixed number of sheep and cattle, and by it the whole family is pacified to content.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

The father, who was perfectly sober, except for the contagion from the young people, felt a wild tremor go through his heart as he gazed on the face of his boy.
— from Aaron's Rod by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Commission of 1853, on Contract Packet Services, extract from its report, 267 .
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir

He procured some elementary French books, including a grammar, dictionary, and tourist's guide, and set himself to the task with his usual energy.
— from A Boy's Fortune; Or, The Strange Adventures of Ben Baker by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

He called to me, thinking at first that I was performing some errand for him; but seeing that I shirked , he repeated his ‘ Come up! ’
— from Tales and Stories Now First Collected by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I appoint thee a court where thou art to be judged, and this Varus, who is very seasonably here, to be thy judge; and get thou thy defense ready against tomorrow, for I give thee so much time to prepare suitable excuses for thyself."
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

"Precisely so!" exclaimed Flint, in an energetic 214 whisper.
— from Within The Enemy's Lines by Oliver Optic

If there was no deviation from the time the bullet left the rifle barrel until the time it exited from the Governor's body, then the physical setup exists for it to have gone through the President, and through the Governor.
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

This is one of the smallest of parrots, scarcely exceeding five inches in length; the feathers of the head have a silky texture, and their colour, in some lights, is particularly vivid: the tail and the wings are green above, but of a rich deep blue beneath; a character said to be equally conspicuous in P. galgulus L.
— from Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 1 or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson