He was a skilful steersman, and well acquainted with the dangers of this most perilous coast, and I saw him grip the tiller, bend his heavy frame forward, and stare at the foaming terror till his big round eyes looked as though they would start out of his head.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The Romans enacted laws against usurious interest; but their legal interest, admitted by the law of the Twelve Tables, was, according to some, twelve per cent., or, to others, one twelfth of the capital, i.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

But Rosamond had registered every look and word, and estimated them as the opening incidents of a preconceived romance—incidents which gather value from the foreseen development and climax.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Analytical Chemist returning, everybody looks at him.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

He does not reproduce the words, but, like the Italian, he revels in drinking scenes, junkettings, gormandizing, battles, scuffles, wounds and corpses, magic, witches, speeches, repeated enumerations, lengthiness, and a solemnly minute precision of impossible dates and numbers.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

dum li mem restis en la akvo, ial ŝajnis esti iomete pli multe da akvo en la banujo ol antaŭe.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Her first measure was to grant letters of marque to privateers, authorising them to plunder all whom they fell in with; and she next collected a fleet and military force as large as the former one, and despatched them with general instructions to the leaders to regard every land as belonging to an enemy.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

POR EL MAPA Uses of se and lo (continued), por , si , más de , and más que (to the vocabulary section) —¿Está Ud. trazando nuevos ríos en las Américas?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Franklin, the agent of the colonies, stood in his humble place, calm and undisturbed to all outward appearance, but he was cut to the quick as he heard this assembly of representative Englishmen laughing at his supposed dishonor.
— from True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Hezekiah Butterworth

Pilot Rules for Western Rivers apply in Pascagoula River, and in the dredged cut at the entrance to the river, above Pascagoula River Entrance Light, A, marking the entrance to the dredged cut.
— from The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities by Felix Riesenberg

Upon some buck horns over the door was always placed the rifle, ever loaded and ready for use.
— from Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Lord Wolseley had taken an active part in the Chinese War of 1860, and I remember his telling me that on his appointment as deputy to accompany Sir Hugh Grant to Hong-Kong he ransacked every library and bookshop in Calcutta for books about China.
— from Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse

[214] Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, A. L. Long.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

if our souls but poise and swing Like the compass in its brazen ring, Ever level and ever true To the toil and the task we have to do, We shall sail securely, and safely reach The Fortunate Isles, on whose shining beach The sights we see, and the sounds we hear, Will be those of joy and not of fear!"
— from Elson Grammar School Literature v4 by William H. (William Harris) Elson

Newdegate; result, 289 prosecuted for blasphemy, 283, 289 Confirmation, 51 Daughter, application to remove, 213 denied access to, 219 Death of father, 21 of mother, 126 Doubt the first, 58 "Elements of Social Science," 196 Engagement, 69 Essay, first Freethought, 113 Fenians, the, 73 Freethinker prosecution, 283, 287, 296 Freethought Publishing Company, the, 285 Harrow, life at, 30 Hoskyns, Rev. E., libel action against, 359 Knowlton pamphlet, the, 205 prosecution, 208 trial, 210 "Law of Population, The," 212, 210 "Law and Liberty League," the, 326 Lecture, the first, 181 Linnell, the Trafalgar Square victim, 316 funeral of, 327 Link , founding of the, 331 Malthusian League formed, 229 Malthusianism and Theosophy, 240 Marriage, 70 tie broken, no Match-girls' strike, 335 Union, established, 336 National Reformer, the, 134 first contribution to, 180 resignation of co-editorship, 320 National Secular Society joined, 135 elected vice-president of, 202 resignation of, 357 Northampton Election, 183 struggle, 253, 344 Oaths Bill, the, 314, 329 Our Corner , 286, 314 Political Opinions, 174 Pusey, Dr., 109, 284 Russian politics, 311 Scientific work, 249 School Board, election to, 338 Scott, Thomas, 112, 127 Socialism, 299 debate on, between Messrs. Bradlaugh and Hyndman, 301 Socialist debates, 318, 319 Socialists and open-air speaking, 312 Defence Association, 323 Stanley, Dean, 23, 122 Theosophical Society, the, 180 joined, 344 headquarters established, 361 Theosophy and Charles Bradlaugh, 350 the National Secular Society, 357 Trafalgar Square, closing of, to the public, 323 Truelove, Edward, trial of, 225 Voysey, Rev. Charles, 106 Working Women's Club, 337, 360
— from Annie Besant: An Autobiography by Annie Besant

"Light Horse Harry" Lee, father of Robert E. Lee, and General Pickens brought reinforcements to Clarke and the combined force again besieged Augusta with renewed vigor May 15th, June 5th, 1781.
— from Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster