The savage tormentors recoiled before these warlike intruders, and uttered, as they appeared in such quick succession, the often repeated and peculiar exclamations of surprise, followed by the well-known and dreaded appellations of: “Le Cerf Agile!
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

We must guard ourselves from recognizing any positive engagement between Mr. Copperfield and our niece, until we have had an opportunity—’ ‘Until YOU have had an opportunity, sister Lavinia,’ said Miss Clarissa.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

With the aid of our learned guide we have now reached a period (end of the thirteenth century) well adapted for this general study of the dress of our ancestors, inasmuch as soon afterwards men's dress at least, and especially that of young courtiers, became most ridiculously and even indecently exaggerated.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

When my name was called, I rose, and President Eliot, in beautiful and strong English, conferred upon me the degree of Master of Arts.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

You’d see them dripping from the rafters and places every now and then; and they generly landed in your plate, or down the back of your neck, and most of the time where you didn’t want them.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A strange unreality which can call out such real and palpable effects as a compulsion symptom!
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

No doubt its use renders a great number of very extraordinary things possible; for, of course, the most remarkable and, possibly, even criminal proceedings may be effected with impunity by thus dodging, as it were, into the interstices of time.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Close to it, he places a burning lamp, and a small quantity of rice and paddy, each on a separate plantain leaf.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

On the throne of Samarcand, 63 he displayed, in a short repose, his magnificence and power; listened to the complaints of the people; distributed a just measure of rewards and punishments; employed his riches in the architecture of palaces and temples; and gave audience to the ambassadors of Egypt, Arabia, India, Tartary, Russia, and Spain, the last of whom presented a suit of tapestry which eclipsed the pencil of the Oriental artists.
— 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

He came into the room and, panting, eased himself into a chair, a tired hippopotamus with a hangover.
— from A Feast of Demons by Joseph Samachson

Natural hazards: NA Environment - current issues: NA Environment - international agreements: party to: none of the selected agreements signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution, Environmental Modification Geography - note: urban; landlocked; enclave in Rome, Italy; world's smallest state; outside the Vatican City, 13 buildings in Rome and Castel Gandolfo (the pope's summer residence) enjoy extraterritorial rights People Holy See (Vatican City) Population: 911 (July 2003 est.)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

On entrance to the Hoogly River, a native pilot comes aboard—for here the ever-moving sands render navigation uncertain and perilous—until the dangerous sand bars of the James and Mary rivers are passed; every sailor must be at his post as the steamer wends its way through the treacherous channel, and each passenger silently congratulates himself when he is assured the Rubicon is past.
— from My Trip Around the World: August, 1895-May, 1896 by Eleonora Hunt

We see therefore that it is with demonstrations of honour and dishonour that the great-minded man is principally concerned; and it is characteristic of him, that when great honour is done him by good persons, he is pleased, but always moderately, because on every occasion he only gets what he deserves, or perhaps less; because, in fact, virtue never can receive a proper equivalent for itself in the shape of anything external: he will not, however, reject any such offering, however inferior to his merits, because he will consider that people have given the best they had to give.
— from Four Phases of Morals: Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, Utilitarianism by John Stuart Blackie

A reduction of fees and salaries is recommended, and an increase of the tax on real and personal estate, in order to keep up the financial credit of the State, without recourse to foreign loans.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various

Or in Sparta's jocund bow'rs, Circling when the vernal hours Bring the Carnean Feast, whilst through the night Full-orb'd the high moon rolls her light; Or where rich Athens, proudly elevate, Shows her magnific state: Their voice thy glorious death shall raise, And swell th' enraptured strain to celebrate thy praise.
— from Book of illustrations : Ancient Tragedy by Richard G. (Richard Green) Moulton

There were no females amongst them, as it is not customary for them to act; but their places were supplied by men or boys, chosen from amongst those who are most [Pg 139] "lady-looking," and so well were their appearance and dresses arranged, that it would have required a practised eye to have detected the difference.
— from Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China Including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries; with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc. by Robert Fortune

And," sez she, a-lookin' sort o' reproachful at me, "I should have thought you would have felt like goin' round and payin' 'em all a visit, on both of your sides, before you went," sez she.
— from Samantha at the World's Fair by Marietta Holley

This is but a casual illustrative suggestion, for what right have I, Allan Quatermain, out of my little reading and probably erroneous deductions, to form any judgment as to the theories of the old Egyptians?
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard