The royal vulture hovered o'er The driver's head, and pierced and tore With his strong beak and dreaded claws His mangled brow and cheek and jaws.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He ransacked vice, he dissected passion.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

But instead of going to her own room, Valentine, having once gained her liberty, entered the gallery, and, opening a small door at the end of it, found herself at once in the garden.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Let me state, then, in the fewest possible words, that Rachel Verinder had nothing but a life-interest in the property.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

“And suppose that the Minister were to make a mistake and get hold of the real Vautrin, he would put every one’s back up among the business men in Paris, and public opinion would be against him.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

A recent victory had restored the independence of the Ostrogoths; and the three brothers, Walamir, Theodemir, and Widimir, who ruled that warlike nation with united counsels, had separately pitched their habitations in the fertile though desolate province of Pannonia.
— 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

the wind changed to the N. W. & rose verry high and Cold which Continud.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Root verbs have a root as imperative stem ( 745-780 ): as, es , &c., fer , &c.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The rest of Strindberg's dramatic productions during this middle, naturalistic period, lasting from 1885 to 1894, included eight more one-act plays, several of which rank very high, and another fairy play, "The Keys to Heaven," which probably marks his nearest approach to a purely negative conception of life.
— from Plays by August Strindberg, First Series by August Strindberg

They corresponded, and in coming to the Riviera, Vanno had planned to look him up.
— from The Guests Of Hercules by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

When Charles had held his Court at St. John's, and when the loyal College had melted down its plate to coin into money for the King's necessities, the Royal visitor had occupied these very rooms.
— from The Further Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Under-Graduate Being a Continuation of "The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman" by Cuthbert Bede

Mozambique degree of risk: very high food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever vectorborne diseases: malaria and plague water contact disease: schistosomiasis (2008)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

At a few metres distance from the north-eastern angle we come upon a quadrangular niche or recess, very high and very narrow, in the depths of which those long vertical grooves which distinguish the steles of this epoch are carved upon the actual masonry of the tomb.
— from A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles Chipiez

He still abstained from any intimacy at her house; he still most rarely visited her or directly sought her, but all the indirect occasions to be in her presence which the routine of their world afforded he accepted and looked forward to with an eagerness which he imagined was wholly unsuspected by others.
— from Princess Napraxine, Volume 3 (of 3) by Ouida

And airy, graceful, smiling that damnable close smile of his, he was gone, leaving Rotherby very hot and angry.
— from The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini

Those here are of reddish variegated, hardened sandstone, with madrepore holes in it.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

HAMILTON, William, of Bangour, Johnson talks slightingly of him, iii. 150-1; verses on Holyrood, v. 43; to the Countess of Eglintoune, v. 374, n. 3. HAMILTON, William, of Sundrum, v. 38. HAMILTON, William Gerard, Boswell's Johnson , pays for a cancel in, i. 520; Burke, engagement and rupture with, i. 519; ranks very high, iv.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. by James Boswell