She watched the water travelling in to the coast, she watched a big wave running unnoticed, to burst in a shock of foam against a rock, enveloping all in a great white beauty, to pour away again, leaving the rock emerged black and teeming.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

All laws which tend to make the Representative more dependent on the elector, not only affect the conduct of the legislators, as I have remarked elsewhere, but also their language.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

But the loftiness of these buildings, which often consisted of hasty work and insufficient materials, was the cause of frequent and fatal accidents; and it was repeatedly enacted by Augustus, as well as by Nero, that the height of private edifices within the walls of Rome, should not exceed the measure of seventy feet from the ground.
— 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

Then, as if glad to leave the theme that never can be touched without reverent emotion by a true woman, she added, looking up to where a few spotless blossoms shone like silver in the light: "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

”—Burns Heyward and his female companions witnessed this mysterious movement with secret uneasiness; for, though the conduct of the white man had hitherto been above reproach, his rude equipments, blunt address, and strong antipathies, together with the character of his silent associates, were all causes for exciting distrust in minds that had been so recently alarmed by Indian treachery.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

The hoarse, jarring whistle of a railway engine became audible.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Small is the comfort from the queen to hear Unwelcome news, or vex the royal ear; Blank and discountenanced the servants stand, Nor dare to question where the proud command; No profit springs beneath usurping powers; Want feeds not there where luxury devours, Nor harbours charity where riot reigns: Proud are the lords, and wretched are the swains."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

And those things which have not received everlasting being, are altered for better or for worse, so as to suit the wants and motions of those things to which the Creator's law has made them subservient; and [Pg 487] thus they tend in the divine providence to that end which is embraced in the general scheme of the government of the universe.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Then Lakshmaṇ with his shafts will take The fish that swim the brook and lake, Remove each bone and scale and fin, Or strip away the speckled skin, And then on iron skewers broil
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

So, too, the hypothetically necessary relations established by abstract thought between them we come to regard as a sort of eternal system of principles, endowed with a sort of legislative power, to which created things and intelligences must conform.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

Mr. Renshaw, eying Bat and the silent Otto with disgust, intervened.
— from The Prince and Betty by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

He was presently in the midst of a vision attractive to all boys, but which few had ever looked upon with such intelligent wonder as he; for Clare had read and re-read every book about animals upon which he could lay his hands.
— from A Rough Shaking by George MacDonald

Those persons who are fond of this kind of amusement may, however, borrow from chemistry some original experiments, which can be easily undertaken, and I will conclude this chapter by describing a juggling feat which I have seen recently executed before a numerous audience by a very clever conjuror.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

An order from the President, dated November 11, 1865, directed the army, navy, and Treasury officials to turn over to the Freedmen’s Bureau all real estate, buildings, and other property in Alabama that had been used by the Confederacy.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

{317} And first, beneath a bramble arch, The bloodroot rose; each bloom a torch Of hollow snow, within which, bright, The calyx grottoed golden light.
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 5 (of 5) Poems of meditation and of forest and field by Madison Julius Cawein

Hence, if the Emperor does not keep his oath to us, he reduces himself to the rank of any other man, and must no longer be regarded as a real Emperor, but as a mere breaker of the peace.”
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Meantime several male members of the congregation, who at one time or another had sat on the roof during the hottest of the dog days to see that shingling operations we’re conscientiously and skilfully performed, were very pessimistic as to any satisfactory result ever being achieved.
— from The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin