He rode down for a couple of hours; he could not yet do more; but as he came from Randalls immediately to Hartfield, she could then exercise all her quick observation, and speedily determine how he was influenced, and how she must act.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Mostly there were parties—to Orange or the Shore, more rarely to New York and Philadelphia, though one night they marshalled fourteen waitresses out of Childs' and took them to ride down Fifth Avenue on top of an auto bus.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

The account about to be given is mainly taken from a recent number of the "Revue Maritime et Coloniale," [25] and is there published as a letter, recently discovered, from a Dutch gentleman serving as volunteer on board De Ruyter's ship, to a friend in France.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Now it happens to this sort of men, as to bad hounds, who never hit off a fault themselves; but no sooner doth a dog of sagacity open his mouth than they immediately do the same, and, without the guidance of any scent, run directly forwards as fast as they are able.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

* Note: Ramon de Montaner, one of the Catalans, who accompanied Roger de Flor, and who was governor of Gallipoli, has written, in Spanish, the history of this band of adventurers, to which he belonged, and from which he separated when it left the Thracian Chersonese to penetrate into Macedonia and Greece.—G.——The autobiography of Ramon de Montaner has been published in French by M. Buchon, in the great collection of Mémoires relatifs à l'Histoire de France.
— 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

being now determined to go into Winter quarters as Soon as possible, as a convenient Situation to precure the Wild animals of the forest which must be our dependance for Subsisting this Winter, we have every reason to believe that the nativs have not provisions Suffient for our Consumption, and if they had, their price's are So high that it would take ten times as much to purchase their roots & Dried fish as we have in our possesion, encluding our Small remains of merchindz and Clothes &c.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Jo's keen eyes were rather dim for a minute, and her thin face grew rosy in the firelight, as she received her father's praise, feeling that she did deserve a portion of it.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

2 person who removes dents from an automotive vehicle body.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The real distance from Acroceraunium, now Capo Linguetta, is 153 miles, according to Ansart.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The rustics deposited flowers and earthen cups of milk before the motionless reptile, which with head lifted and venomous jaws open seemed to threaten them.
— from Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

“My dear Josie,” returned Kate, putting her arm around her sister's waist, “I am perfectly convinced that if three-fingered Jack, or two-toed Bill, or even Joaquim Murietta himself, should step, red-handed, on that veranda, you would gently invite him to take a cup of tea, inquire about the state of the road, and refrain delicately from any allusions to the sheriff.
— from Snow-Bound at Eagle's by Bret Harte

Ashton gave back a trifle before the older man's irascibility, but answered with easy assurance: "I thought it would do no harm to run down for a few days.
— from Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet

Miss Rugg was a lady of a little property which she had acquired, together with much distinction in the neighbourhood, by having her heart severely lacerated and her feelings mangled by a middle-aged baker resident in the vicinity, against whom she had, by the agency of Mr Rugg, found it necessary to proceed at law to recover damages for a breach of promise of marriage.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

For the Vandals had plundered the Roman domain for a long time and had transferred great amounts of money to Libya, [26-3] and since their land was an especially good one, nourishing abundantly with the most useful crops, it came about that the revenue collected from the commodities produced there was not paid out to any other country in the purchase of a food supply, but those who possessed the land always kept for themselves the income from it for the ninety-five years during which the Vandals ruled Libya.
— from History of the Wars, Books III and IV The Vandalic War by Procopius

But she had been trained in a repressed, decorous fashion, and many of the Friends were as rigorous as the Puritans.
— from A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda M. Douglas

I stared about me helplessly, and as I did so a flying ray of light from the setting sun reflected downwards from a storm-cloud, fell upon a white patch on the crest of one of the distant land-waves.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow; (This—all this—was in the olden Time long ago)
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Those sentences, which Godefroid heard through the door, or rather divined, for a heavy portiere on the inside smothered the sounds, gave him an inkling of the truth.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Yach Stringfellow "In de long winter days de men sat round de fire and whittle wood and make butter paddles and troughs for de pigs and sich, and ax handles and hoe handles and box traps and figure-four traps.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration