And, leaving his unemptied glass upon the table, he departed and was never known to sip another drop of wine.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Without detaining the reader with an examination of the reasons for such a distinction, or with remarks on the right or wrong use of the terms, I shall endeavour clearly to determine these conceptions, so far as is necessary for the purpose in this Critique.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

this peculiarly unfortunate because so soon as we cut through the first strata of ice the water rushes up and rises as high as the upper surface of the ice and thus creates such a debth of water as renders it impracticable to cut away the lower strata which appears firmly attatched to, and confining the bottom of the vessels.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

It was sung very boisterouly, and with a forced attempt at merriment; but no wail of despair, no words of impassioned prayer, could have had such a depth of woe in them as the wild notes of the chorus.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I could see clearly a room with a sanded floor, clean scoured; a dresser of walnut, with pewter plates ranged in rows, reflecting the redness and radiance of a glowing peat-fire.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Every such encroachment, every violation of that natural distribution, which the most perfect liberty would establish, must, according to this system, necessarily degrade, more or less, from one year to another, the value and sum total of the annual produce, and must necessarily occasion a gradual declension in the real wealth and revenue of the society; a declension, of which the progress must be quicker or slower, according to the degree of this encroachment, according as that natural distribution, which the most perfect liberty would establish, is more or less violated.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

To some of them, it is true, the policy seemed a dangerous one which bore even the appearance of subjecting the Republic to the Royal House of Naples; and some of them could have wished that he ‘had shown more vigour in civil and military affairs.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

[298] By these three men, then, when a son Isaac was again promised to Abraham by Sarah, such a divine oracle was also given that it was said, "Abraham shall become a great and numerous nation, and all [Pg 146] the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Well, he said at dinner on Wednesday night, that you would have to choose between this world, the next world, and Australia.
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

A pail of ice was placed under the table, in which stood a decanter of water, from which he supplied himself with his favourite beverage.
— from Horace Walpole and His World: Select Passages from His Letters by Horace Walpole

If, however, we pursue this comparison further we find that, with the characters now adverted to, the similarity ceases; in Sterculia there are no petals, the calyx has a valvular not imbricate æstivation, the cells of the fruit separate into distinct folliculi, and do not combine into a solid woody capsule, and the seeds are destitute of wings.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

The demoralization which had stealthily gone on for a number of years was now suddenly a debacle of will and body.
— from The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker

Besides the regimental buildings there are a large number of buildings for garrison purposes, such as quarters and offices for general, staff and departmental officers, with the warrant and non-commissioned officers employed under them; the supply depot with abattoir and bakery; the ordnance stores; barrack stores for furniture and bedding, shops and stores for R. E. services; the balloon establishment; the detention barracks; fire brigade stations; five churches; recreation grounds for officers and men; schools; and especially the military technical schools of army cooking, gymnastics, signalling, ballooning and of mounted infantry, Army Service Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps and veterinary duties.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

At ten o'clock the sala of his large house on the rise of the hill was thronged with robed girls in every shade and device of white, sitting demurely behind the wide shoulders of coffee-coloured dowagers, also in white, and blazing with jewels.
— from The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

For the eighth may possibly turn out to be properly the seventh, and the seventh, manifestly the sixth, and the latter, [D] properly the Sabbath, and the seventh, a day of work.
— from The Complete Testimony of the Fathers of the First Three Centuries Concerning the Sabbath and First Day by John Nevins Andrews

"These caravans of strange beings, who preserve under every sky their dreamy laziness, their rebellion against the yoke, their love of solitude," had always possessed an irresistible charm for him, and he had never understood the scorn and disgust of which they were the object.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various