He never spares himself, except now and then to assume a somewhat diaphanous anonymity.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The thief who had been knocked down had now recovered himself; and both together fell to belabouring poor Joseph with their sticks, till they were convinced they had put an end to his miserable being: they then stripped him entirely naked, threw him into a ditch, and departed with their booty.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Why then should her enthusiasm not extend to Mr. Casaubon simply in the same way as to Monsieur Liret?
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

He must have heard of the heavy loss I had sustained: he expressed no sympathy, offered no condolence: but almost the first words he uttered were,—‘How is your mother?’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

[279] iustitiae tamquam a sapiente petitur exemplum; nemo enim horum sic sapiens, ut sapientem volumus intellegi, nec ii, qui sapientes habiti et nominati, M. Cato et C. Laelius, sapientes fuerunt, ne illi quidem septem, sed ex mediorum officiorum frequentia similitudinem quandam gerebant speciemque sapientium.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

On that same holy Easter night, the queen had brought forth to the king a daughter, called Eanfled.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over that part of the lake which lies between the promontory of Belrive and the village of Copêt.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

By victorious Analysis, and Progress of the Species, happiness enough now awaits him.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

“Be still.” Her eyes narrowed.
— from Second Variety by Philip K. Dick

Yet, all the time, we pursue the foolish policy of trying to hide London by darkening it, and, at the same time, shine searchlights at the self-same place and at the same hour each night—apparently to betray to the enemy our most vulnerable points.
— from The German Spy System from Within by Anonymous

"Good is that," said Ralph; "I had looked to see her ere now; but when we meet apart from folk, something we shall be able to say to each other, which belike neither she nor I had liked to leave unsaid till we meet again.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

Her wildest dreams, and they had been at times fantastic, had never showed her anything measurably approaching the scene that smote her eyes now.
— from The Pirate Woman by Aylward Edward Dingle

It has at once damped every pursuit which my spirits had even now prevented me from being weaned from, I mean a Virt`u.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

40 Mr. Hamilton subsequently lived for a short period at No. 8 Rawstorne Street, which street divides No. 27 (a confectioner’s shop), and No. 28 (the Crown and Sceptre) Brompton Row, opposite to the Red Lion (a public-house of which the peculiar and characteristic style of embellishment could scarcely have escaped notice at the time when the annexed sketch was made, 1844, but which decoration was removed in 1849.)
— from A Walk from London to Fulham by Thomas Crofton Croker

Denique processerunt vlterius debellando ac vincendo vsque ad terram Soldani Halapiæ, et nunc etiam terram obtinent, alias quoque terras vltra illas proponentes impuguare: nec postea reuersi sunt in terram suam vsque hodie.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt