She cried out that the spirit of the chief whom she had thus offended would surely kill her.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

Anatole did a sort of Swedish exercise, starting at the base of the spine, carrying on through the shoulder-blades and finishing up among the back hair.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

she cried out, threatening the Sergeant wildly with her hand.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The first clause of the same section empowers Congress "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises"; and the second clause of the tenth section of the same article declares that, "NO STATE SHALL, without the consent of Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except for the purpose of executing its inspection laws."
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

In single combat on the Trojan shore: This was ordain’d for Mnestheus to possess; In war for his defence, for ornament in peace.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

This was a most grievous and afflicting thing to me, who saw it all from my own windows; for all this while the poor afflicted man was, as I observed it, even then in the utmost agony of pain, having (as they said) two swellings upon him which could not be brought to break or to suppurate; but, by laying strong caustics on them, the surgeons had, it seems, hopes to break them—which caustics were then upon him, burning his flesh as with a hot iron.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

In fact, a new theory of literary composition for imaginative works of the very first class, and especially for highest poems, is the sole course open to these States.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

There appeared before me a little opening of the land, and I found a strong current of the tide set into it; so I guided my raft as well as I could, to keep in the middle of the stream.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

He seldom came out to the scene of actual operations, for there was none there except workmen to see his frock-coat and silk hat; but occasionally, from a sense of duty inextricably mingled with self-assertiveness, he paid a visit of inspection, and upon one of these his eyes were confronted by a huge new board sign, visible for half a mile, that overlooked the Applerod Addition from the hills to the north.
— from The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by George Randolph Chester

There was no sound except the munching and snorting of the horses and the snoring of the sleepers; somewhere far away a lapwing wailed, and from time to time there sounded the shrill cries of the three snipe who had flown up to see whether their uninvited visitors had gone away; the rivulet babbled, lisping softly, but all these sounds did not break the stillness, did not stir the stagnation, but, on the contrary, lulled all nature to slumber.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

By the same exercise of reason, we cannot cast our eyes upon anything in the world, or exercise our understandings upon ourselves, but we must presently imagine, there was some cause of those things, some cause of myself and my own being; so that this truth is as natural to man as anything he can call most natural or a common principle.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

With these words he put the round cover on to the round basket, and the square cover on to the square basket, and each fitted snugly into its place.
— from In Story-land by Elizabeth Harrison

[36] Napoleon's Plans for Spain — Character of the Troops Sent Thither — Conflicting Policies in England — The Battle of Busaco — The Lines of Torres Vedras — Soult's Dilatoriness — Consequences of the Spanish Campaign — English Opinion Opposed to Wellington — Difficulties of Spanish Warfare — Marmont Replaces Masséna — French Successes — Their Slight Value — The French Character and the Spanish Invasion.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

In the morning the three soldiers crept out to the smoldering remains of their fire, which was still sending up a thin wreath of smoke.
— from The Last Three Soldiers by W. H. (William Henry) Shelton

Socrates calls on them to show such a state in action.
— from A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Philip Sidney

The system consisted of two training schools, Primary and Advanced.
— from The Story of American Aviation by Jim Ray

A motion was made as follows: The President elect of the United States having informed the Senate that he proposes to take the oath which the constitution prescribes to the President of the United States before he enters on the execution of his office, on Wednesday, the 4th instant, at 12 o'clock, in the Senate Chamber: Ordered , That the Secretary communicate that information to the House of Representatives; that seats be provided for such members of the House of Representatives and such of the public Ministers as may think proper to attend; and that the gallery be opened to the citizens of the United States.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress