Nadya went to her room, dressed, and sitting at the window fell to waiting for the morning.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Charts of successful begging neighbourhoods are rudely drawn, and symbolical signs attached to each house to show whether benevolent or adverse.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Nor shall the laying out of the dead in the house continue for a longer time than is sufficient to distinguish between him who is in a trance only and him who is really dead, and speaking generally, the third day after death will be a fair time for carrying out the body to the sepulchre.
— from Laws by Plato

In Madras, a story is current with reference to the statue of Sir Thomas Munro, that he seized upon all the rice depôts, and starved the people by selling rice in egg-shells, at one shell for a rupee.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

They sometimes kill calves and young horses, and I was told of one that had seized a full-grown horse, but its struggles being observed, some natives ran down and saved it from being pulled into the water and drowned.
— from The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt

Three weeks after the surrender, the convoy reached Deddington, a small town in Oxfordshire, a few miles south of Banbury.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

In the case just referred to it marked the place where the supply of solid matter from the upper atmospheric regions, during a single fall, was exactly equal to its consumption; but the term is usually understood to mean the line along which the quantity of snow which falls annually is melted, and no more.
— from The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related by John Tyndall

This readily dissolves any solanine.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

About the same time Robert Davidson, a Scotchman, experimented with an electric railway car sixteen feet long, weighing six tons, and attaining a speed of four miles an hour.
— from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn

But Bertha could see perfectly well the tinge of jealousy for every other friend of hers, and an inclination to crab and run down and sit out, especially, any smart young man.
— from Bird of Paradise by Ada Leverson

Jeremy rarely drank anything stronger than Madeira wine.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

"Though we may take a run down and see you," said Allen to Betty a few days before the one set for the departure.
— from The Outdoor Girls in Florida; Or, Wintering in the Sunny South by Laura Lee Hope