At a later period, Madame de Stael came upon Louis Lambert, then a ragged urchin, absorbed in reading a translation of Swedenborg's "Heaven and Hell.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Our skin curled up like lint; our vision became dim; the brain dizzy.
— from Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

The Iraqi Army is also confronted by several other significant challenges: Units lack leadership.
— from The Iraq Study Group Report by Iraq Study Group (U.S.)

The steward, moreover, had taken up the conceit that it was indicative of a "nigger" to be merry; and, between dignity, a proper regard to his colour--which was about half-way between that of a Gold Coast importation, and a rice-plantation overseer, down with the fever in his third season--and dodged submission to unmitigated calls on his time, the prevailing character of the poor fellow's physiognomy was that of a dolorous sentimentality He believed himself to be materially refined by having had so much intimate communication with gentlemen and ladies, suffering under sea-sickness, and he knew that no man in the ship could use language like that he had always at his finger's ends.
— from Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

Therefore it came upon Mrs. Wentworth with quite a shock when three mornings running in succession, while doing the ever-necessary shopping, she came upon Lallie leisurely strolling up and down the promenade, a tall youth on either side of her, all three manifestly with no sort of object in their stroll except the society of one another; and wherever Lallie was, "cheerfulness kept breaking in": in this case the attendant swains laughed with a heartiness and vigour that caused most passers-by to regard the trio attentively.
— from Master and Maid by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker

F11-F99 History of single countries (using local list).
— from A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana

G11-G99 Single countries (using local list).
— from A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana

This will, as we have said, came upon Lewis like a thunderbolt.
— from It was a Lover and His Lass by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

It seems to me that the thing must be pathological, that he and this goodness of his have exactly the same claim upon Lombroso, let us say, as the born criminal.
— from Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The naturalists of a century ago held a similar opinion regarding the earth, viewing it as an immutable and unchanged product of supernatural creation, until Lyell led them to see that the world is a plastic mass slowly altering in countless ways.
— from The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton