The star Arcturus scarcely ever rises without storms of hail occurring.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Myself and Planchet are all that such a simple expedition requires.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

= KEY: Stop \v.\. SYN: Close, obstruct, plug, cork, bar, seal, arrest, suspend, end, rest, halt, hinder, suppress, delay, cease, terminate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

“Just so.” Dolly sighed, and stared enviously round the drawing-room.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

I say awakened, because time and London, business and dissipation, had in some measure quieted it, and I had been growing a fine hardened villain, fancying myself indifferent to her, and chusing to fancy that she too must have become indifferent to me; talking to myself of our past attachment as a mere idle, trifling business, shrugging up my shoulders in proof of its being so, and silencing every reproach, overcoming every scruple, by secretly saying now and then, 'I shall be heartily glad to hear she is well married.'—
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Public credit revived, the Bank capital increased, the currency sufficed, and. says Earl Russell in his Essay on the English Government and Constitution, 'from this time loans were made of a vast increasing amount with great facility, and generally at a low interest, by which the nation were enabled to resist their enemies.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Firmly frozen over everywhere, and coated with a good depth of snow, bordered on each side by a high shrubbery of wild willow, alder, wych-hazel, dog-wood, tree-cranberry and other specimens of the lesser brushwood of the forest, plentifully overspread and interwoven in numerous places with the vine of wild grape, the whole had the appearance of a fine, clear, level English coach-road or highway, bounded throughout its winding course by a luxuriant hedge, seen as such English roads and their surroundings were wont to be, all snow-clad, at Christmas-tide, from the top of the fast mail to Exeter, for example, in the old coaching days.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

At the present day the more affluent classes of society are so entirely removed from the direction of political affairs in the United States that wealth, far from conferring a right to the exercise of power, is rather an obstacle than a means of attaining to it.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

What we find at the origin and basis of religious thought are not determined and distinct objects and beings possessing a sacred character of themselves; they are indefinite powers, anonymous forces, more or less numerous in different societies, and sometimes even reduced to a unity, and whose impersonality is strictly comparable to that of the physical forces whose manifestations the sciences of nature study.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

For the proud elder sister keeps her sorrow to herself, eschewing sympathy, and scarce ever recurring to the past.
— from The Death Shot: A Story Retold by Mayne Reid

Quite inevitably, of course, and proof against any evidence to the contrary, however weighty, it was only right in the eyes of all the learned German economists that the palm of ‘priority’ should be wrested from Marx, the revolutionary anarchist, by Rodbertus, the ‘socialist’ with monarchist, Prussian and nationalist leanings, the man who believed in communism five hundred years from now, but for the present supported a steady exploitation rate of 200 per cent.
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

Thus, St. Irenæus assures us that all Christians possessed the power of working miracles; that they prophesied, cast out devils, healed the sick, and sometimes even raised the dead; that some who had been thus resuscitated lived for many years among them, and that it would be impossible to reckon the wonderful acts that were daily performed.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Presently I heard a joyful shout, and saw Ernest running at full speed toward me, followed by his brothers.
— from The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss

Dolly sighed, and stared enviously round the drawing-room.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

We have thus far seen the apparent and proximate causes merely—which brought to the surface, at the present time, a riotous disposition, always existent in the community, a volcano slumbering and smouldering, ever ready to burst forth and deluge society with its withering and destroying lava, whenever the flame is fitly fanned.
— from Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

These Virginian coal-measures are composed of grits, sandstones, and shales, exactly resembling those of older or primary date in America and Europe, and they rival, or even surpass, the latter in the richness and thickness of the coal-seams.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Every gun belched forth its great shot and shell; every rifle whizzed out its sharp-singing, death-freighted messenger.
— from What Answer? by Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson

5.—As other parts of speech seem sometimes to take the nature of adverbs, so adverbs sometimes, either really or apparently, assume the nature of other parts of speech.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown