There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.
— from The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

‘Then,’ said Mr. Scaley, producing a small document from his pocket and unfolding it very slowly, ‘this is a writ of execution, and if it’s not conwenient to settle we’ll go over the house at wunst, please, and take the inwentory.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

much thicker than Miss Anne's; and, in short, her civility rendered her quite as anxious to be left to walk with Mr Elliot as Anne could be, and it was discussed between them with a generosity so polite and so determined, that the others were obliged to settle it for them; Miss Elliot maintaining that Mrs Clay had a little cold already, and Mr Elliot deciding on appeal, that his cousin Anne's boots were rather the thickest.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Coloni appellantur qui conditionem debent genitali solo, propter agriculturum sub dominio possessorum.
— 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

Either troops of shadows, an imperial guard, with slow pace and solemn, defiled along the steeps; or, routed by pursuing light, fled broadcast from east to west—old wars of Lucifer and Michael; or the mountains, though unvexed by these mirrored sham fights [pg 012] in the sky, had an atmosphere otherwise unfavorable for fairy views.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

He ran to the river and threw his axe on purpose into the pool at the same place, and sat down on the bank to weep.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

He was an ignoramus, as he did not understand Why he should stand in fear of death: so once, when he’d a cough, The worst of all diseases that affect the human frame, He cared not for a remedy; but when the news did reach him, That brave Antipater had ta’en some poison, and so died, “Give me, said he, some stuff to drink.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

She had been up to San Francisco, or, as it is called, "chock up to windward," had stopped at Monterey on her way down, and was shortly to proceed to San Pedro and San Diego, and thence, taking in her cargo, to sail for Valparaiso and Cadiz.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

How Sir Tristram, Sir Palomides, and Sir Dinadan were taken and put in prison.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

"I am easy now," said Pan Andrei; "sit down, worthy Kyemlich."
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

[he means Beresford, who had been in charge of Hill’s former command since December] se portait avec sa division et un gros détachement de Portugais à travers les montagnes du haut Zézère, se dirigeant sur la rive gauche du Mondégo.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

Immediately, a man rose up from behind a rock on the same side of the ravine, and shook clenched fists after the departing figures; then stood gesticulating angrily to himself, until, chancing to look up, he sighted Pierre, and straightway dived into the underbrush.
— from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Complete by Gilbert Parker

His organ of hearing is so fine, that, with his eyes closed, he instantly names any musical sound produced; and so discriminating is this sense in the child, that, when a note is struck on an instrument, tuned either above or below the usual pitch, he immediately discovers and accurately states in what the deviation consists.
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

‘You like poetry?’ ‘Ye-es, pretty well— some poetry,’ Alice said doubtfully.
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

The same bright, sparkling style and easy manner which rendered 'The Colonel's Daughter' and 'Kitty's Conquest' so popular and so delightful, characterize the present volume.
— from Kitty's Conquest by Charles King

She paused and stared directly at him in a way he found hard to bear.
— from Black Jack by Max Brand

He told her of Mrs. Seton's plans, and she determined to go to Baltimore instead.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various