He was conducted with speed and silence to the palace; the guards saluted their new sovereign; and the martial and religious rites of his coronation were diligently accomplished.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The boy, also, in due time, passed from the forecastle to the cabin, spent a tempestuous manhood, and returned from his world-wanderings, to grow old, and die, and mingle his dust with the natal earth.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He was gobbling mincemeat, meatbone, bread, cheese, and pork pie, all at once: staring distrustfully while he did so at the mist all round us, and often stopping—even stopping his jaws—to listen.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I could fancy that, when I was a child, or a youth, that portrait had spoken, and told me a rich secret, or had held forth its hand, with the written record of hidden opulence.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He had thrust his chest out, supporting his shoulders against the mantel and resting his weight on one large patent-leather foot.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The stranger said, that what information he could give was entirely at his service; and then mentioned a road rather more to the east, which led to a town, whence it would be easy to proceed into Rousillon.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Presently Ulysses got up to go towards the town; and Minerva shed a thick mist all round him to hide him in case any of the proud Phaeacians who met him should be rude to him, or ask him who he was.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Soon after this, Mr. Anthony remarked that one of the "spoolers" was ill and there was no one to do her work.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

But such as is the king, such are the ministers and retinue, and such is the kingdom.
— from Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg

What Wench, A straightbacke will growe crooked, A round eye will growe hollowe, A great leg will waxe small, 85 A curld pate proue balde: But a good heart Kate, is the sun and the moone, And rather the Sun and not the Moone:
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9] by William Shakespeare

The strong among the mighty are represented as speaking to him out of the midst of sheol , as he enters therein.
— from The state of the dead and the destiny of the wicked by Uriah Smith

es of the saints were peculiarly grotesque and out of taste in their adornments, and one wondered how any one, with the smallest sense of the ludicrous, could have allowed such absurdities to mar a religious spot.
— from A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gertrude Forde

The consequences of error or mistake warn one not to make the same error or mistake again; and therefore the consequences, however unpleasant or sad at the moment, are really educative in their nature, and their very trial or pain becomes, if [Pg 324] truly recognized, a friendly and redemptive power.
— from The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting

Firmly driven boughs and saplings were planted side by side and bound together, so as to make a regular stockade.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by David Livingstone

Plait them together and bind up the two ends so as to make a rude switch, like a child's whip-lash.
— from The Eight Strokes of the Clock by Maurice Leblanc