This done, Mooly turned her long nose to the wind; scented this way and that way, and then scampering carelessly over the brow of the hill, she opened in a tone so loud and so sprightly that it made all the Eildons sound in chorus to the music.
— from The Brownie of Bodsbeck, and Other Tales (Vol. 2 of 2) by James Hogg

Their ears were assailed by the chatter of several telegraph instruments mounted around the edge of a circular work desk.
— from Hoofbeats on the Turnpike by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

To raise and purify the character of the profession, so that it may answer the ends of justice without requiring insincerity in the advocate, is a proper end for a good man who is a lawyer; a purpose on which he may well and worthily employ his efforts and influence."
— from An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition by George Sharswood

It's of no use for you to say that I may attend to everything else but this one thing; God has given me a yearning for our boy, and, if you will force me to say it, for my own dear misguided husband, which forbids my abandonment of my duties and rights in this matter.
— from Our Girls by Dio Lewis

We are willing if she can convince us of the necessity of such a wheel, to assist with artists and materials, in making it, so that it may answer the end.
— from Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies by Daniel Leonard

Four foreign armies were let loose upon her plains, to steep them in misery, and the enormities attending the sack of Rome were repeated at Pavia, Spoleto, and a multitude of minor towns in Lombardy and Central Italy.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 by James Dennistoun

Remembering that his father had called to him not to keep it always dark, but to make it partly dark and partly light, he caused the sky to revolve so that it moved around the earth carrying the sun and stars with it, and making day and night.
— from A Treasury of Eskimo Tales by Clara Kern Bayliss