After a brief search they found him, sitting upon a heap of pebbles, reading a newspaper and eating filberts.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Some little rain all night, after eating a Slight brackfast of venison we Set out.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This melancholy may happen to widows, with much care and sorrow, as frequently it doth, by reason of a sudden alteration of their accustomed course of life, &c. To such as lie in childbed ob suppressam purgationem ; but to nuns and more ancient maids, and some barren women for the causes abovesaid, 'tis more familiar, crebrius his quam reliquis accidit, inquit Rodericus , the rest are not altogether excluded.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For what a small obstacle must be a river, to restrain any nation, as each grew more potent, from seizing or changing habitations; when as yet all habitations were common, and not parted or appropriated by the founding and terror of Monarchies?
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

This was the rivulet already noticed as entering just above the Island.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

What matters it, then, if his historical references are not always exhaustive, and if to make himself intelligible in the Philippines he had to write in a style possibly not always sanctioned by the Spanish Academy?
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

239 F | Itaque, quod Apollo Pythius oraclum edidit, Spartam nulla re alia nisi avaritia esse perituram, id videtur non solum Lacedaemoniis, sed etiam omnibus opulentis populis praedixisse.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Resolutions are not admitted, except in one doubtful case, rēgumque puerīs (2, 18, 34), where pu͡erīs may be read (with synizesis: see 2499 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

If, therefore, Russia continues to maintain the positions which she has usurped far within the Afghan limits, and thus permanently violates the integrity of the country, resisting all negotiation, and even thwarting our efforts through the commission to effect a compromise, there would seem to be no alternative but a resort to arms.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

Not many would [Pg 157] consent to travel the long and difficult road; and not all eyes could see at the end the promised kingdom where all men are brothers.
— from Mother by Maksim Gorky

Those who remained at Newark anxiously expected the return of the party, but they came not.
— from Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by William O. S. Gilly

Even so in the long wet ruts did the false hope of spring contend with the shadows: even so at last did it end, when the dead leaves upon the trees begin to stir madly in the night wind, with the sudden, ghastly motion of burnt paper on a still fire when a draught stirs it in a silent room at night; and even the nearest trees seemed to be but fantastic hollows in the misty air.
— from The Heart of England by Edward Thomas

Chain mail suffered extremely by rust and neglect, and even plate armour was subject to the same deterioration.
— from Authorised Guide to the Tower of London by W. J. (William John) Loftie

Even the highest and most ethical Religions are not agreed either in their Ethics or in their Theology.
— from Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Hastings Rashdall

Then I proceeded to return, O king, and wonderful to say, though I consumed those grains on my journey day after day, they remained as numerous as ever.”
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

It was hardly possible to acquit both Russell and Nottingham; and each House stood by its own member.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Her intentions were to come as near back to slavery as ever she could get, or rather as near as ever she dared to come, once more.
— from Historical Romance of the American Negro by Charles Henry Fowler

The King's Representative always nominates an Executive Council—that is, a Cabinet to "advise" him in the Government, and whether, as in the Bill of 1893, that Council is called an Executive Committee of the Privy Council of Ireland by analogy with the Dominion of Canada, where it is the "King's Privy Council for Canada," or whether it is merely an Executive Council is immaterial.
— from The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers