He would certainly have remained with you till suspended animation had been restored: and so should I, but, at that juncture, a hurried messenger arrived from the dying patient I had scarcely left—the last duties were called for—the physician's last visit and the priest's last rite; extreme unction could not be deferred.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

And why, admitting that it is necessary to set some limit to the wealth of women, should Crassus’s daughter, if she be his only child, inherit thousands without offending the law, while my daughter can only receive a small share in a bequest.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

each man's stock in trade amounts to no more than one awl, one Kniting pin, a half an ounce of vermillion, two nedles, a few scanes of thead and about a yard of ribbon; a slender stock indeed with which to lay in a store of provision for that dreary wilderness.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I went into the ladies’ room and said, “Supper is about to be served, ladies.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

At Constantinople, they were hospitably entertained by the emperor; but the ostentation of their wealth provoked the assault of the wild Arabs: they drew their swords with scrupulous reluctance, and sustained siege in the village of Capernaum, till they were rescued by the venal protection of the Fatimite emir.
— 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

In conformity with a custom of remotest antiquity still surviving in India, the dead man was provided with ornaments and clothing for use in the future life.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The faces about her flowed by like the streaming images of sleep: she hardly noticed where Selden was leading her, till they passed through a glass doorway at the end of the long suite of rooms and stood suddenly in the fragrant hush of a garden.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

In fights between single ships, not controlled in their movements by their relations to a fleet, this improvement would at times allow the possessor to take a position whence he could train upon his enemy without the latter being able to reply, and some striking instances of such tactical advantage are given.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Running a Scroll Saw is better exercise than riding a bicycle.
— from Harper's Round Table, December 3, 1895 by Various

That restful day shall dawn; but e'en as storm, Darkness and devastation, judgments dire, Changed with convulsive throe the land's first form, 1850 Made mountains plains, plains mountains, purged with fire And flood this soil—as saw my nation's sire, Ere light and peace looked down from realms above;— So shall it be[57], and more, when heaven's hot ire, Besoming a world's iniquity, shall move, In burning, melting might, the gold, the dross, to prove.
— from Elias: An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

Four of the crew, who were saved, wandered for years through the wild regions of Louisiana and Texas, and finally reached a Spanish settlement in Northern Mexico.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

When the number of the faithful is increased, so is their efficiency; the enemies of truth are diminished and discouraged by all brought to receive it; and the communion of saints, by the addition of every believer, is swelled to the pleasing anticipation, the grateful remembrance, and substantial satisfaction in the enjoyment of present good, of every one therein.
— from The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham

“Well,” said Mary Jane with a sigh of relief as she sank into the comfortable Pullman seat, “I just a-going to sit here all afternoon 184 and think and think and think—I am!”
— from Mary Jane Down South by Clara Ingram Judson

The subjects are chiefly illustrations of Scripture history or of allegorical fable; but, thanks to the custom which prevailed throughout the Middle Ages of representing all such subjects in contemporary costume, and according to contemporary manners and customs, the Jewish patriarchs and their servants afford us perfectly correct representations of Saxon thanes and their cheorls ; Goliath, a perfect picture of a Saxon warrior, armed cap-à-pied ; and Pharaoh and his nobles of a Saxon Basileus and his witan.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts