Her comrade was a sordid soul, Such as does murder for a meed;
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Seven separate and distinct masses of humanity—six great circles and a monster parquette.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

So he stood up to the neck in the mire which was all about him, and so continued; but there was one of the king's servants, who was in esteem with him, an Ethiopian by descent, who told the king what a state the prophet was in, and said that his friends and his rulers had done evil in putting the prophet into the mire, and by that means contriving against him that he should suffer a death more bitter than that by his bonds only.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

We hold the doctrine to be a a high-handed insult to the All-loving Father, who, we are told, is "long-suffering in mercy," and "plentiful in forgiveness," to charge Him with sanctioning such a doctrine, much less with originating it.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Mr. Collins was carefully instructing them in what they were to expect, that the sight of such rooms, so many servants, and so splendid a dinner, might not wholly overpower them.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Did one ever see, come from the same school and discipline, manners more united, and more the same?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Pyungkúta (ipyungkut) lang ang bàbà sa sáku arun dì mayabu ang bugas, Bunch up the mouth of the sack and tie it so the rice won’t spill.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

After composing his countenance to surprise, sorrow, and decent modesty, Justin, by the advice of his wife Sophia, submitted to the authority of the senate.
— 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

Sir John moved to the bedside, nerved himself to watch the ashen face, and said slowly and distinctly: "Mr Tubes is not here.
— from The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War by Ernest Bramah

Possession, and Desire, his brother, But still at variance with each other, Were seen contending in a race; And kept at first an equal pace; 'Tis said, their course continued long, For this was active, that was strong: Till Envy, Slander, Sloth, and Doubt, Misled them many a league about; Seduced by some deceiving light, They take the wrong way for the right; Through slippery by-roads, dark and deep, They often climb, and often creep.
— from The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift

O. by thy knighthood's honored sign, And for thy life preserved by mine, When thou shalt see a darksome man, Who boasts him Chief of Alpine's Clan, With tartars broad and shadowy plume, And hand of blood, and brow of gloom Be thy heart bold, thy weapon strong, And wreak poor Blanche of Devan's wrong!—
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Sometimes a child will bring home as much as 10 s. or more a day; and as often one padrone has as many as fifty children under his care, spread about in companies in London and in the country under the supervision of his confederates, it will be seen that the total amount of a number of small sums accumulating daily must be very large.
— from The Alien Invasion by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

And thus you have seen how men like me should be considered by the State, and how the science of fencing is more important than all the other useless sciences, such as dancing, music, ... DANCING MASTER:
— from The Middle-Class Gentleman by Molière