Thus with ten wounds The river-dragon tamed at length submits To let his sojourners depart, and oft Humbles his stubborn heart; but still, as ice More hardened after thaw; till, in his rage Pursuing whom he late dismissed, the sea Swallows him with his host; but them lets pass, As on dry land, between two crystal walls; Awed by the rod of Moses so to stand Divided, till his rescued gain their shore: Such wondrous power God to his saint will lend, Though present in his Angel; who shall go Before them in a cloud, and pillar of fire; By day a cloud, by night a pillar of fire; To guide them in their journey, and remove Behind them, while the obdurate king pursues: All night he will pursue; but his approach Darkness defends between till morning watch; Then through the fiery pillar, and the cloud, God looking forth will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot-wheels: when by command Moses once more his potent rod extends Over the sea; the sea his rod obeys; On their embattled ranks the waves return, And overwhelm their war: The race elect Safe toward Canaan from the shore advance Through the wild Desart, not the readiest way;
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The boy and girl took refuge in a covered mews, in a street running out of the Edgeware Road.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

He wrote a work on The right ordering of the English Republic , and has the honor of having discovered the first alum mines in England.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

At that instant Professor Henderson ran out of the engine room.
— from Through the Air to the North Pole Or, The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch by Roy Rockwood

Judging by comparison, I am persuaded these observations are yet more applicable to the political, than the religious opinions of the English republicans of that period; for, in these respects, there is no difference between them and the French of the present day, though there is a wide one between an Anabaptist and the disciples of Boulanger and Voltaire.
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs

It reminds one of the enormous reproduction of species of animals that are individually weak and much hunted.”
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel

Three scared birds in the window (p. 189) recess try vainly to snatch a moment's sleep between shots and the trains that go roaring overhead on the elevated road.
— from Children of the Tenements by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

He appeared against the horizon as if he had ridden out of the ether, riding slowly, straight as an Indian, but as he came closer I saw he was a white man.
— from Land of the Burnt Thigh by Edith Eudora Kohl

The circles round his eyes became quite yellow, and, trembling with rage, one of those evil rages of his country, he uttered these words: “Passajon, you are a blackguard.
— from The Nabob by Alphonse Daudet

XLII Dawn rolled out of the east, red and riotous, its crimson spears streaming towards the zenith.
— from Love Among the Ruins by Warwick Deeping

having used the name Vulcan once), suggested an extraordinary remedy, one of the earliest records of a homœopathic expedient.
— from Masques & Phases by Robert Baldwin Ross