The others stood fast for a bit, but when the weasels came rushing out upon them they thought they were betrayed; and the stoats grappled with the weasels, and the weasels fought to get away, and they wrestled and wriggled and punched each other, and rolled over and over, till most of ‘em rolled into the river!
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The progress of the monks was not less rapid, or universal, than that of Christianity itself.
— 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

418 - 422 CHAPTER III THE RELATION OF UTILITARIANISM TO THE MORALITY OF COMMON SENSE 1.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Next in order come other nations as far as the middle of Greece, with lower elevations of the voice; and from this middle point they go on in regular order up to the extreme north, where, under high altitudes, the vocal utterance of the inhabitants is, under natural laws, produced in heavier tones.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Let us first recall the distinction previously noticed [369] between duty as commonly conceived,—that to which a man is bound or obliged—, and praiseworthy or excellent conduct; since, in considering the relation of Utilitarianism to the moral judgments of Common Sense, it will be convenient to begin with the former element of current morality, as the more important and indispensable; i.e. with the ensemble of rules imposed by common opinion in any society, which form a kind of unwritten legislation, supplementary to Law proper, and enforced by the penalties of social disfavour and contempt.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Thereupon she ran out upon the track to a place where she could be seen from some little distance.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

“Then you must know as well as the rest of us that there was something queer about that gentleman—something that gave a man a turn—I don’t know rightly how to say it, sir, beyond this: that you felt in your marrow kind of cold and thin.”
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

when Orion rising on us through the cloudrack with sudden surf bore us on blind shoals, and scattered us afar with his boisterous gales and whelming brine over waves and trackless reefs.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Rising up abruptly, he rushed off under the trees toward Monsieur Renardet's house.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Not a single tree; nothing but the telegraph posts of the Châteaudun and Orleans road, running on unswervingly till they were lost to sight.
— from The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

I think that Françoise disbelieved me, for, like those primitive men whose senses were so much keener than our own, she could immediately detect, by signs imperceptible by the rest of us, the truth or falsehood of anything that we might wish to conceal from her.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

In the case of the Colorado, Zittel says that: "Powell's explanation of the apparent enigma is that after the river had eroded its channel rocks were uplifted in one portion of its course, but so slow was the rate of uplift that the river was enabled to deepen its channel, either proportionately or more rapidly, so that it was never diverted from its former course."
— from Illogical Geology, the Weakest Point in the Evolution Theory by George McCready Price

[423] CHAPTER III RELATION OF UTILITARIANISM TO THE MORALITY OF COMMON SENSE § 1.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Therefore, after half an hour, or at most an hour, spent in getting up their tasks, the books would be thrown aside, and the boys be off, either to the river or up to the castle to practise sword-play with the men-at-arms, or to the butts with their bows, or to the rabbit-warren, where they had leave from the earl to go with their dogs whenever they pleased.
— from By England's Aid; Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Many sorts of fishing-tackle, and the nets and oil-skins of the men, are hung upon the walls or among the open rafters; and right overhead, under the thatch, there is a whole cowskin from which they make pampooties.
— from The Aran Islands by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

iii.— Rights of, under the treaty of Hopewell, 192 . Chesapeake (The).
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 9 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

Much of his time was spent in travelling, in a leisurely way, about Europe; not for the sake of seeing anything in particular, for he had no interest in historical associations or in the remains of ugly things that happened to be old, or in visiting the bric-a-brac museums of the fine arts which make some of the more tolerable countries tedious.
— from Spiritual Adventures by Arthur Symons

He had staked his professional reputation, too, that from the first crocus to the last Michaelmas daisy, the gaudy Catherine-wheel would never be for a single day out of bloom; and then he had departed, leaving the responsibility of upkeep to the delighted town.
— from Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions

Finally, it was arranged that we should all go out together, the Douglases assuring the rest of us that they could open doors which would be shut to strangers.
— from The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson