Well, it'll be a hard case if he's gone off now, the way we'll never set our eyes on a man killed his father, and we after rising early and destroying ourselves running fast on the hill.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

Burnell and Beryl sat at the table in the middle of the room eating a dish of fried chops and drinking tea out of a brown china teapot.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Their chief, Rāvaṇa, enraged and determined on revenge, turns one of his followers into a golden deer, which appears to Sītā.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

[It is attractive] because Reason exerts a dominion over sensibility in order to extend it in conformity with its own realm (the practical) and to make it look out into the Infinite, which is for it an abyss.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Nothing feasible and sensible remains, except a deed of rashness.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Rain, exposure at dewfall on the searocks, a peccadillo at my time of life.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

"I trust you may find it so," said the old gentleman, who seemed rather embarrassed, and desirous of avoiding the observation which Clifford's wild talk drew on them both.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

To the east side of Petersburg, from the Appomattox back, there were thirteen of these redans extending a distance of several miles, probably three.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

One day, after listening to an account of the conversion of M.——, of Lima, our patient's relatives expressed a desire of having recourse to similar means for their dear one's conversion.
— from The Miraculous Medal: Its Origin, History, Circulation, Results by Jean Marie Aladel

But eager for the morning sun, we retired early and dreamed of victory.
— from The Game-Birds of the Coasts and Lakes of the Northern States of America A full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, with a comparison of the merits of breech-loaders and muzzle-loaders by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

Clip had steered in shore, and the boat had run against a tree of large size which had fallen over into the river, extending a distance of a hundred feet into the stream.
— from Bob Burton; or, The Young Ranchman of the Missouri by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"Interrogatus; quis recepit eum ad dictum ordinem et dedit ei habitum? dixit, quod Frater Willielmus de la More oriundus de Comitatu Ebor. tunc et nunc Magister dicti Ordinis in Anglia et Scotia."
— from Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars Second Edition by James Burnes

In the morning the keeper would see traces of their feathers and sometimes a duck or two, but more often he saw the footprints of the strange animal that so resembled either a dog or wolf.
— from The Strife of the Sea by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

Not only is this evident from the numerous factories at the principal centres, but it is corroborated by the rapid extension and development of Toronto, Hamilton, Winnipeg and other towns.
— from Newfoundland to Cochin China By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

In continuing this comparison the reader will find an explanation of the vitality shown by the state-church of England, and at the same time the motives which do not allow us to predict for that of Russia either able defenders or even a lingering death.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

The following report of Postmaster Dennison (1865) furnishes an epitomized view of the dead-letter department:— “The number of dead-letters received, examined, and disposed of was 4,368,087,—an increase of 856,262 over the previous year.
— from Foot-prints of a letter carrier; or, a history of the world's correspondece by James Rees

Earliest Notices of the British Isles—The Celts—Their Settlement in Britain—Their Character and Customs—Druidism—Its Organisation and Authority—Its Tenets—Stonehenge and other Remains—Cæsar's Preparations—The First Invasion—Peril of the Romans and their Retirement—The Second Invasion—Cæsar's Battles with Cassivelaunus—Claudius in Britain—The Resistance of Caractacus—His Defeat and Capture—His Speech before Claudius—The Conquest of Anglesea—Boadicea's Rebellion—The Capture of Camulodunum and London—Her Defeat and Death—Agricola in Britain—His Campaigns and Administration—His Campaign against the Caledonians—His Recall—The Walls of Hadrian and Severus—Rivals to the Emperor—Constantine's Accession—Christianity in Britain—Invasions of the Picts and Scots—Dismemberment of the Roman Empire and Departure of the Romans—Divisions and Administration of Britain under the Romans.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous