What sort of place had I come to, and among what kind of people?
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Where one would have to write out sheaves of papers, here I call upon the count, and in three words we settle the business.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[196] The figures of Gog and Magog used until recently to be cut into the slope of Plymouth Hoe: in Cambridgeshire, are the Gogmagog hills; at the extremity of Land’s End are two rocks known respectively as Gog and Magog, and there is an unfavourable allusion to the same twain in Revelation .
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

The surgeon or physician had in court to declare under oath the true value of drugs and medicines administered, and then the court decided the just compensation.
— from Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Thomas Proctor Hughes

This man, it seems, having sighted the rock about three weeks after we had got away from it in the ‘Star of Peace,’ hauled in close to have a good look at an uncharted spot that was full of the deadliest menace to vessels, and observed signals being made to him from what he was afterwards informed was the hull of a fossilised ship.
— from An Ocean Tragedy by William Clark Russell

[Pg 270] "You needn't wait one minute if you don't wish to," replied Paul, who wondered in what school of politeness his involuntary companion had been brought up.
— from Stem to Stern; or, building the boat by Oliver Optic

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— from A Blot on the Scutcheon by Mabel Winifred Knowles

Where my sense of personal honor is concerned I'm going to stick, no matter what the costs may be.
— from J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Out of the enveloping grove which masked the side of Pendragon Hill it came, shooting over the last "thank-you-ma'am" and taking the ice with a ringing crash of steel on crystal.
— from Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays; Or, Rescuing the Runaways by Annie Roe Carr

They had not, as a school has, any system of philosophy held in common by them all.
— from A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace