And indeed, so long as Man's Life can ground itself only on artificiality and aridity; each new Revolt and Change of Dynasty turning up only a new stratum of dry rubbish, and no soil yet coming to view,—may it not be good to protest against such a Life, in many ways, and even in the Figaro way?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

"She sighed, and looked in my face.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

"Well," he said, at length, "it may be all right.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

2 slow and languid in movement.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Never saw such a likeness in my life!"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Hereupon the sister of Scheherazade, as I have it from the “Isitsoornot,” expressed no very particular intensity of gratification; but the king, having been sufficiently pinched, at length ceased snoring, and finally said, “hum!” and then “hoo!” when the queen, understanding these words (which are no doubt Arabic) to signify that he was all attention, and would do his best not to snore any more—the queen, I say, having arranged these matters to her satisfaction, re-entered thus, at once, into the history of Sinbad the sailor: “‘At length, in my old age,’
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Content thee, Calymath, here thou must stay, And live in Malta prisoner; for come all 210 the world To rescue thee, so will we guard us now, As sooner shall they drink the ocean dry, Than conquer Malta, or endanger us.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

It is remarkable that Tertullian (Apologet. c. v.) distinctly asserts that Verus (M. Aurelius) issued no edicts against the Christians, and almost positively exempts him from the charge of persecution.—M. This remarkable synchronism, which explains the persecutions under M Aurelius, is shown at length in Milman's History of Christianity, book ii.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Edward Gibbon

"Yes; my father wishes me to return, and as soon as Lianor is married we are going.
— from Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective; Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express by A. Frank Pinkerton

But methinks some friendships are likewise made in heaven; and if it be so, I doubt not but that when we met, and out of that brief meeting there arose so great and sudden a liking in my heart for you, Mistress Constance,—which, I thank God, you were not slow to reciprocate,—that our angels had met where we hope one day to be, and agreed together touching that matter.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

Benedict Arnold At Cambridge began his long comradeship with a very different character, Benedict Arnold, a young man of romantic and generous impulses, and for personal bravery unsurpassed, but vain and self-seeking, and lacking in moral robustness; in some respects a more polished man than Morgan, but of a nature at once coarser and weaker.
— from The American Revolution by John Fiske

Several similar reports are given of "The Meeting of the Friends of Freedom," upon which occasions absurd speeches are made, such as that by Mr. Macfurgus, who declaims in the following grandiloquent style:— "Before the Temple of Freedom can be erected the surface must be smoothed and levelled, it must be cleared by repeated revolutionary explosions, from all the lumber and rubbish with which aristocracy and fanaticism will endeavour to encumber it, and to impede the progress of the holy work.
— from History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan) L'Estrange

I have forgotten that faith in times past hath stopped a leak in my crazed bark, and half filled my sails with a fair wind.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford

He was in London, if not for the Parliament session, at least in May, for the religious meetings.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray