Before he commenced whipping Aunt Hester, he took her into the kitchen, and stripped her from neck to waist, leaving her neck, shoulders, and back, entirely naked.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

The time was short but she wrote urgent letters to Lucy Stone, Antoinette Brown, Ernestine Rose and Lucretia Mott.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Grimm had made some attempts on Madam d’Houdetot, which had not succeeded, and being extremely piqued, suddenly discontinued his visits to her.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He did look round, came back, put his arms about her, as she stood on the step above him, and looked up at her with a face that made his short appeal both eloquent and pathetic.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

‘May Nin-cigal,’ says a Babylonian exorcism, ‘turn her face towards another place; may the noxious spirit go forth and seize another; may the female cherub and the female demon settle upon his body; may the king of heaven preserve, may the king of earth preserve!’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

As soon as all the beasts were through, the young folk would rush wildly at the ashes and cinders, sprinkling and blackening each other with them; those who were most blackened would march in triumph behind the cattle into the village and would not wash themselves for a long time.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

She had gone to hide her weakness; escaping from the castle, she had descended to the little park, and sought solitude, that she might there indulge her tears; I found her clinging round an old oak, pressing its rough trunk with her roseate lips, as her tears fell plenteously, and her sobs and broken exclamations could not be suppressed; with surpassing grief I beheld this loved one of my heart thus lost in sorrow!
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The latter was describing in eloquent words how, in consequence of recent legislation, he was obliged to sell a beautiful estate in the N. province, not because he wanted ready money—in fact, he was obliged to sell it at half its value.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Graceful she said, and bade Eumaeus show The rival peers the ringlets and the bow.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

We remark, first, that in all ages, and especially in primitive philosophy, words such as being, essence, unity, good, have exerted an extraordinary influence over the minds of men.
— from The Republic by Plato

And it has only been within the last few years that the clever dodge of swindling the public by bad photos and worse art, of sweating artists by employing hacks and students has been practised, for the benefit of two people, grasping proprietors and still more grasping editors.
— from The Illustration of Books A Manual for the Use of Students, Notes for a Course of Lectures at the Slade School, University College by Joseph Pennell

she added bitterly, "even if I did?"
— from The Rider of Waroona by G. Firth Scott

The wastes from the bowels and bladder, especially the bowels, are poisons that should always be expelled from the body just as soon as possible.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

The men fell to work heartily, and by dark they had cleared off the snow and brush enough to make room for their tents, and many cook fires blazed over the camp.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

When the audience was finished, he and the personages he had before sent to the Pasha were splendidly habited in the Turkish fashion, and presented with horses, furnished with saddles and bridles embroidered with gold.
— from A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy by George Bethune English

"Full speed ahead both engines!"
— from The Fight for Constantinople: A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

It became a custom from a very early date for the archer to bear a stake sharpened at both ends which the front ranks drove firmly into the ground with the secon
— from British and Foreign Arms & Armour by Charles Henry Ashdown

The Presbyterian Church in that city—a spacious and beautiful edifice—was filled, and the audience was evidently greatly interested.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 36, No. 2, February, 1882 by Various