We alighted under a portico where there was a great bustle and a great crowd, but I do not distinctly remember further details, until I found myself mounting a majestic staircase wide and easy of ascent, deeply and softly carpeted with crimson, leading up to great doors closed solemnly, and whose panels were also crimson-clothed.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

I had repeatedly asked, between the fall of Donelson and the evacuation of Corinth, to be relieved from duty under Halleck; but all my applications were refused until the occupation of the town.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

She pretends to laugh at one, whom sometimes her youthful romantic fancy dwells upon in a very different sense.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Farfrae should at all events have no reason for delay upon the road by seeing him there when he took his journey homeward later on.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The power of sustained thinking on matters remote from direct use is an outgrowth of practical and immediate modes of thought, but not a substitute for them.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Others have regulated this question as to their armies thus if your enemy come full drive upon you, stand firm to receive him; if he stand to receive you, run full drive upon him.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

At the appointed hour the same man returned in the same carriage, which, instead of stopping this time at the end of the Rue Férou, drove up to the green door.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

In that letter I ordered McPherson not to extend any farther to the left, but to employ General Dodge's corps (Sixteenth), then forced out of position, to destroy every rail and tie of the railroad, from Decatur up to his skirmish-line, and I wanted him (McPherson) to be ready, as soon as General Garrard returned from Covington (whither I had sent him), to move to the extreme right of Thomas, so as to reach if possible the railroad below Atlanta, viz., the Macon road.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

20 Después de media hora de camino, durante la cual el Sr. D. José no se mostró muy comunicativo, ni el Sr. Licurgo tampoco, apareció a los ojos de entrambos apiñado y viejo caserío asentado en una loma, y del cual se destacaban algunas negras torres y la ruinosa fábrica de un 25 despedazado castillo en lo más alto.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

It was only too soon apparent that young as he was, and the taste of the public being not yet ready for development upon the lines his genius directed him, that his livelihood could not be secured by endeavouring to sell such subjects as appealed to him.
— from Millet by Percy Moore Turner

Exercising 2213 Horses feeding 2224-15 Watering 2212, 2216 Horseradish, the 447 Medical properties of the 1122 Sauce 447 Vinegar 448 Hot spice 524 Housekeeper, daily duties of the 58-61 General duties of the 55 Knowledge of cookery 57 Necessary qualifications for a 56 Housemaid, bedroom, attention to 2306, 2323-4 Bright grates 2298 Candlestick and lamp-cleaning 2330 Carpet-sweeping 2312 Chips broken off furniture 2330 Cleanings, periodical 2326-9 Dress of the 2319 Dusting 2313 Duties after dinner 2321 evening 2322 general 2292-4 Fire-lighting 2296-7 Furniture-cleaning 2307, 2313 General directions to the 2300-5 Hartshorn, for plate-cleaning 2316 Laying dinner-table 2314-5 Marble, to clean 2333-4 Needlework 2325 Plate, to clean 2317 rags for daily use 2318 Upper and under 2291 Waiting at table 2320 Recipe, Brunswick black, to make 2295
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

There sat the poor child, alone in the darkness, amongst the desolate, snow-covered rocks, with the big, black shadow of Rastekaïs frowning down upon him.
— from The Diamond Fairy Book by Various

"Sammy Chirp called my attention to Gresham and Collaton talking together rather furtively down under the grandstand a few minutes ago," he said.
— from Five Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress by George Randolph Chester

In short, Congress was so well satisfied with the result of its previous reductions, that, early in the year 1851, it changed what had been its minimum rate, viz., twopence-halfpenny, into its maximum, establishing a three-halfpenny rate for distances under three thousand miles.
— from The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Hill, Rowland, Sir

His religious fervor depends upon the reality of such imagery; the folk-song reflects this imagery as nothing else does.
— from Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes by Howard Washington Odum

And does she not knock at the real brass knocker upon the real front door until it comes off, and I have to sit down beside her on the floor and screw it on again?
— from Novel Notes by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Kennedy’s story is the common recruiting fable, dressed up to suit your particular palate.
— from The House on the Moor, v. 1/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant