There's harvest hundreds do be passing these days for the Sligo boat.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

Perhaps they did, for even in America and in the twentieth century, life could not be wholly industrial.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

A Miserable Man incessant prayed To Death for aid.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

The Ephors he seized while at dinner, and put them all to death on the spot,—chance thus inflicting upon them the 352 punishment they deserved: for whether we regard the person at whose hands, or the person for whose sake they were thus destroyed, we cannot but say that they richly merited their fate.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

In tracing the career of the erring philosophers, or the wilful cheats, who have encouraged or preyed upon the credulity of mankind, it will simplify and elucidate the subject, if we divide it into three classes: the first comprising alchymists, or those in general who have devoted themselves to the discovering of the philosopher’s stone and the water of life; the second comprising astrologers, necromancers, sorcerers, geomancers, and all those who pretended to discover futurity; and the third consisting of the dealers in charms, amulets, philters, universal-panacea mongers, touchers for the evil, seventh sons of a seventh son, sympathetic powder compounders, homœopathists, animal magnetisers, and all the motley tribe of quacks, empirics, and charlatans.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Here having taken up our lodging at an an inn, I found myself so fatigued that I began to despair of performing our journey on foot, and desired Strap to inquire if there were any waggon, return horses, or any cheap carriage in this place, to depart for London next day.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The glow of evening and the wheeling of the solitary pee-wit and the faint cry of the birds came to meet the shuffling noise of the pits, the dark, fuming stress of the town opposite, and they two walked the blue strip of water-way, the ribbon of sky between.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

These little weekly dinners must have been extremely pleasing to Diderot; for he who failed in almost all his appointments never missed one of these.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Polignacs travel disguised; friends, not servants, on their coach-box.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Its charm consists, not merely in laughter or even in joy, but in the stirring of those sympathies and associations which exist invariably in the race; for we inherit a world-life and a religion, the earth-springs of whose realities lie, perchance, too deep for laughter, but not, Heaven be praised, too deep for tears.”
— from Wit and Humor of the Bible: A Literary Study by Marion D. (Marion Daniel) Shutter

"Paine," testifies Dr. Francis, "clung to his infidelity to the last moment of his natural life."
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 2. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway

He put them down feebly, and sat staring blankly at vacancy.
— from The Cryptogram: A Novel by James De Mille

At one point on the road, the further rocky end of the Grandfather mountain presents the distinct features of a face.
— from The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North Carolina by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

In most provinces the oppressed peasants formed bands which stormed and burned the châteaux of the hated nobles, taking particular pains to destroy feudal or servile title-deeds.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

Opium is extracted from poppy straw in commercial operations that produce the drug for medical use.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"I will go to the nursery if you like," she said, as it were a Queen saying with royal affectation of equality: "See, I am even prepared to descend from my dais and walk on a level with you."
— from Shadows of Flames: A Novel by Amélie Rives

But perhaps there was some excuse for the professor that day, for he was the president pro tem. of our projected temperance society, and as such he had been making a quantitative and qualitative analysis of another kind of quartz.
— from In Partnership: Studies in story-telling by Brander Matthews

He had nothing to do to get his sins purged, but plenty to do for the One who had purged them.
— from Life and Times of David. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. VI by Charles Henry Mackintosh

“I 288 marked that he pulled two documents from his pocket, looked at them both, and giving me one, replaced the other in his breast.
— from With Force and Arms: A Tale of Love and Salem Witchcraft by Howard Roger Garis