Thus they; sprawling and wriggling, far and wide, on the slopes and passes of the Argonne;—a loss to Brunswick of five-and-twenty disastrous days.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

When he was gone, and I was quite alone, I flung myself down on the bench where Nora had made believe to faint, and had left her handkerchief; and, taking it up, hid my face in it, and burst into such a passion of tears as I would then have had nobody see for the world.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

He only knew that the men were invading the silence and privacy of the attic; and as the one with the dark face let himself down through the aperture with such lightness and dexterity that he did not make the slightest sound, Melchisedec turned tail and fled precipitately back to his hole.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

But Mr. Small spoke with a faltering voice of his family, his daughter in school, his wife ignorant of his calamity, and drew such a picture of their agony, that Mr. Bolton put by his own more pressing necessity, and devoted the day to scraping together, here and there, ten thousand dollars for this brazen beggar, who had never kept a promise to him nor paid a debt.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

At last, when many dead now lay piled one upon another in the stream, and part of the army had been destroyed at the river, and the few that escaped from thence cut off by the cavalry, Nicias surrendered himself to Gylippus, whom he trusted more than he did the Syracusans, and told him and the Lacedaemonians to do what they liked with him, but to stop the slaughter of the soldiers.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

It is true that Chinese often worship at these shrines—just as, on the same principle, they employ Malay magicians in prospecting for tin; but there appear to be certain limits beyond which they [ 70 ] cannot go, as it was related to me when I was living in the neighbourhood, that a Chinaman who had, in the innocence of his heart, offered at a Moslem shrine a piece of the accursed pork , was pounced upon and slain before he reached home by one of the tigers which guarded the shrine.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

But Mrs. Rushworth was "that kind of woman"; foolish, vain, clandestine by nature, and far more attracted by the secrecy and peril of the affair than by such charms and qualities as he possessed.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

But the release of the prisoners from chains, and their translation from the shadows to the images and to the light, and the ascent from the underground den to the sun, while in his presence they are vainly trying to look on animals and plants and the light of the sun, but are able to perceive even with their weak eyes the images in the water (which are divine), and are the shadows of true existence (not shadows of images cast by a light of fire, which compared with the sun is only an image)—this power of elevating the highest principle in the soul to the contemplation of that which is best in existence, with which we may compare the raising of that faculty which is the very light of the body to the sight of that which is brightest in the material and visible world—this power is given, as I was saying, by all that study and pursuit of the arts which has been described.
— from The Republic by Plato

The lover seized a pair of tongs and broke the head of the angry parent, who was cured with great difficulty, and who still bears the marks of the wound.
— from The Works of Voltaire, Vol. IV of XLIII. Romances, Vol. III of III, and A Treatise on Toleration. by Voltaire

The questions should never be for the purpose of merely securing answers perfectly obvious to all in the class.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

Sprague and Purvis often talked about him, but they had no idea of what he intended to do.
— from The Man Who Rose Again by Joseph Hocking

And some miles from Scutari a part of the Albanian army was returning from a foray into Yugoslavia.
— from The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein

Thus you conclude your account of the characters of Shakespear’s plays 385 with saying, that you should not have condescended to notice the senseless and wicked sophistry of the work at all, but that ‘you conceived it might not be unprofitable to shew how small a portion of talent and literature is necessary to carry on the trade of sedition.’
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt

Soon after the irruption of Dockstader, or Doxstader, into the Currytown and New Dor-lach settlements, a party of Tories and Indians made a descent upon Palatine, under the conduct of a son of Colonel Jacob Klock.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

I didn't say a cup of tea—I said a pot of tea, as plain as——!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 1, 1893 by Various

Mr. Thompson served as president of the Alpine Club in 1889.
— from The Mountains of Oregon by W. G. (William Gladstone) Steel

All the pilgrims, good and bad—they, or the seed and possibility of them all, are all in your heart and in mine.
— from Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Alexander Whyte

In Court at Last—The State's Attorney Points Out the Accused, Man by Man—A Formidable Array of Legal Talent—Objections to Luther Laflin Mills and his Associates—Over-ruled by the Court—Weeks consumed in the Wearisome Task of Securing a Jury—Scenes and Incidents 384 CHAPTER XIX.
— from The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin by Henry M. Hunt