Going late ashore, (I couldn't give up the beauty, and soothingness of the night,) as I staid around, or slowly wander'd I heard the echoing calls of the railroad men in the West Jersey depot yard, shifting and switching trains, engines, etc.; amid the general silence otherways, and something in the acoustic quality of the air, musical, emotional effects, never thought of before.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

At that the king dissembled and hid from Sir Tristram that the knights were sent by him; yet more than ever he hated him in secret, and sought to slay him.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

The world might have been challenged to produce another baby who had such a store of pleasant nonsense said and sung to it, as Bella said and sung to this baby; or who was dressed and undressed as often in four-and-twenty hours as Bella dressed and undressed this baby; or who was held behind doors and poked out to stop its father's way when he came home, as this baby was; or, in a word, who did half the number of baby things, through the lively invention of a gay and proud young mother, that this inexhaustible baby did.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

To avert such a catastrophe the king would send a scapegoat to the frontier of Bunyoro, the land of the enemy.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Therefore, before they would have recourse to extremities, they thought it advisable to consult the senate a second time.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

What when we measure silence, and say that this silence hath held as long time as did that voice?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

If the disputants do not change the grading to come within the arbitrators' findings, the samples are sent to the entire board of arbitrators, exclusive of those who may have been the original graders, and final decision is made by majority vote.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The dainty slippers and stockings, the delicately frilled skirts and petticoats, the laces, ribbons, hair-combs, purses, all touched her with individual desire, and she felt keenly the fact that not any of these things were in the range of her purchase.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Its shattering hum shook the eagle's nerves, steady and seasoned though they were.
— from The Ledge on Bald Face by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

First, independent but cordially concurrent efforts of maritime states to suppress, as far as possible, the trade on the coast, by means of competent and well-appointed squadrons, to watch the shores and scour the neighboring seas.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

Forbes rose as he spoke and strode the length of the room and back with the air of a man debating some weighty and difficult point.
— from Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy

The governor was perplexed by this speech, and said: “To-day, child, to-day?
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain

Her husband summoned the servants, and, sending them to her assistance, went off himself for a doctor.
— from A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy

I wonder what it is in college that makes a fellow want to stick his finger into conventions and customs and manners, to say nothing of the revised statutes, and stir the whole mess 'round and 'round!
— from At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch

Soon after sunset the moon sailed majestically through the little fleecy clouds lying low on the horizon.
— from Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables