Further that, as in such case business is like to be heavy, our Revolutionary Tribunal too shall have extension; be divided, say, into Four Tribunals, each with its President, each with its Fouquier or Substitute of Fouquier, all labouring at once, and any remnant of shackle or dilatory formality be struck off: in this way it may perhaps still overtake the work.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

In either of these Cases, tho' a Man perhaps does but his Duty in changing his Side, he not only makes himself hated by those he left, but is seldom heartily esteemed by those he comes over to.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The carriage nearly overturned, and he saw her eyes blaze at him, and she positively hissed, “I suppose you are enjoying this?”
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Having done this, we congratulated ourselves upon the security of the position; for we were now completely excluded from observation, as long as we chose to remain within the ravine itself, and not venture out upon the hill, We could perceive no traces of the savages having ever been within this hollow; but, indeed, when we came to reflect upon the probability that the fissure through which we attained it had been only just now created by the fall of the cliff opposite, and that no other way of attaining it could be perceived, we were not so much rejoiced at the thought of being secure from molestation as fearful lest there should be absolutely no means left us for descent.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

One day while arguing so, watching the cow Pull at the rope to get beyond the circle Which she had eaten bare, Out came the stake, and tossing up her head, She ran for us.
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

On some animals she has even bestowed artifice and cunning; as on spiders, some of which weave a sort of net to entrap and destroy whatever falls into it, others sit on the watch unobserved to fall on their prey and devour it.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have seen his eye brighten, his heart beat, as he beheld the battalion under arms, and asked me if they were not real soldiers.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

She however evidently belongs to Asia and did not come to this land which is now called by the Hellenes Europe, but only from Phenicia to Crete, and from Crete to Lykia.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Marmeladov seconded her efforts by meekly crawling along on his knees.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the blind credulity of fear, the streets of Nice were crowded with thousands of both sexes, who knew not from what or to whom they fled; and some hours elapsed before the firmness of the military officers could relieve the city from this imaginary foe.
— 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 importance of being enabled to store an unusual quantity of water, should the need arise for such a storage, had early been presented to his mind.
— from As It Was in the Beginning by Philip Verrill Mighels

He strained his eyes, but could see nothing, while the Arab seemed to have a sixth sense which warned him that there were others near.
— from The Wheel O' Fortune by Louis Tracy

No other plan for a fair exchange of such services has even been suggested.
— from Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life by Geo. T. (George Thompson) Fairchild

The street here entered by Claudia and Lucilia still exists; it now bears the name of Via di San Giovanni in Laterano.
— from Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome. Volume 1 by Ernst Eckstein

As he looked at her steadily his eyes became moist and his powder-stained lips began to quiver.
— from Northern Georgia Sketches by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

Every bush she passed took some fantastic shape, and as she strained her eyes before her to make it assume some rational form, it seemed to move stealthily as if about to spring upon her; the trees appeared to be stretching out their naked branches, like long arms with ghostly fingers to clutch her as she passed; now and then a twig, too heavily freighted with ice, would snap off and come crackling to the ground, the sudden noise making her heart stand still for an instant, only to start on again, beating more violently than before.
— from Marion Berkley: A Story for Girls by Elizabeth B. (Elizabeth Barker) Comins

With the utmost sincerity she wondered for the thousandth time why she had ever been born.
— from The Halo by Bettina Von Hutten