It smokes excessively, from which it follows that many receive serious injury to the eyes, so that they lose their sight towards the close of life.
— from Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 by Samuel de Champlain

By the 1st of May Ball had erected a battery at the head of the harbor, sweeping it to the entrance, so that the French ships, one of which was the "Guillaume Tell," eighty, that had escaped from Aboukir, had to be kept in the coves.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

We were compelled to fight our way through in order to find the mountain footpath, where the heavy horse of the royal party could not follow; with great loss, it is true, but, still fortunately, I led my people through, I succeeded in turning the enemy, so that we had them only on one side of us.
— from The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel. Vol. II. by Ludwig Tieck

The wedding, however, was over, the bride was in hysterics, and there was nothing left to do, since it was still raining hard, but to get another cab back to New York in the hope of getting to the station in time to enable sister to catch the 8.03 train for Westchester, the town she was visiting in, and where they were giving a card party in her honor that night.
— from Won in the Ninth The first of a series of stories for boys on sports to be known as The Matty Books by Christy Mathewson

In the mean while every thing is grown scarce in the Town, even such things of which there is ordinarily the greatest Plenty: Linnen cannot be had for covering the Mattresses in the Hospitals, tho' Search is made for it by breaking open all the Warehouses and Shops.
— from A brief Journal of what passed in the City of Marseilles, while it was afflicted with the Plague, in the Year 1720 by Pichatty de Croislainte

Thick spectacles enlarged his almost expressionless blue eyes; as one looked straight into them, the eyeballs seemed to be twice the normal size.
— from Shot With Crimson by George Barr McCutcheon

The duke of Cambridge asked the number of seconds in the time elapsed since the commencement of the Christian era, 1813 years, 7 months, 27 days.
— from Curiosities of Human Nature by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

Looking up, he now said, “Incident to this expected shock, there may be a variety of dangers.
— from Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Jules Verne