The streets were bedded with it—six inches of cold, soft carpet, churned to a dirty brown by the crush of teams and the feet of men.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

In the spring of 1836 the second party of emigrants from Stavanger County came to America.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

It was five o’clock in the afternoon of the bright autumnal Sunday, before a candle was sent down to try the air, while three or four rough faces stood crowded close together, attentively watching it: the man at the windlass lowering as they were told.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

C. Davis; and after General Dodge was wounded, his corps (the Sixteenth) had been broken up, and its two divisions were added to the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Corps, constituting the Army of the Tennessee, commanded by Major-General O. O. Howard.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

A ROMA REVERTENS, INGRESSUS FLORENTIAM, CUM MAGNO GAUDIO ET TRIPUDIO SUSCEPTUS, CIVIUM COPIAM TORQUEIS AUREIS DECORAVIT ...
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Dum in sua quisque ministeria discursu trepidat ad prima signa succeditque ad muros acies, patefacta repente porta Marcellus signa canere clamoremque tolli ac pedites primum, deinde equites, quanto 15 maximo possent impetu, in hostem erumpere iubet.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

es ésta que dentro de mi pecho se confunde con tan amarga pena?...
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The bones of Kamehameha, after being kept for a while, were so carefully concealed that all knowledge of their final resting place is now lost.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

The servants cry, coming; the attendance is awkward; the bar-maid, too, to attend us.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith

Away she went, and fortunately found her friend alone in the "settin'-room," darning away at a perfect stack of socks, as she creaked comfortably to and fro in her old rocking-chair.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

There is a friend that as the wise man saith Cleaves closer than a brother: nor to me Hath time not shown, through days like waves at strife This truth more sure than all things else but death, This pearl most perfect found in all the sea That washes toward your feet these waifs of life.
— from Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic by James Douglas

They got a notable advocate, M. Louis Vrevin, to draw up a protest against the enterprise in the most florid and elaborate fashion of the Plaideurs of Racine, and by dint of bombarding the King's Council with the names of Julius Cæsar, Pompey, Xerxes, Sesostris, Cleopatra, Cicero, Tertullian, and others, got, in 1625, what we in America now call an 'injunction,' putting a stop to the works begun by this foreigner, who 'had come into France to fix the eye of curiosity upon the river Oyse and to disturb it.'
— from France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert

She had kept so contemptuously cool through all those days of doubt, but she was cool no longer; her face was white, but it looked a white fury.
— from Told in the Hills: A Novel by Marah Ellis Ryan

Ap·paÏla¶chiÏan (?), a. Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

His sensibility caused Condorcet to abandon the barbarous pleasures of the chase, which had at first powerfully attracted him.
— from Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3), Essay 3: Condorcet by John Morley

"As thou sayest," Ootah replied, "but why?" "Annadoah must be thine or mine; dead, she cannot choose thee, and with thee dead, my strength shall cow her.
— from The Eternal Maiden by T. Everett (Thomas Everett) Harré

In his office at New York Spaceport Clayton came to attention and saluted crisply; his eyes shining, his deeply-scarred face alight.
— from First Lensman by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Those which came after, assoone as they saw Calderon come to an anchor with his brigandine in the Riuer, presently went thither, and came into the hauen.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14 America, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

The snow carpet was spread quite down to Bex, and she could come there and see Rudy within doors, more than he was accustomed to, for he sat with Babette.
— from Rudy and Babette; Or, The Capture of the Eagle's Nest by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"Without a sovereign priest officiating before and for his people, St. Peter's is but a grand aggregation of splendid churches, chapels, tombs, and works of art.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare