The lane made a slight bend; and when that bend was passed, Mr. Elton was immediately in sight; and so near as to give Emma time only to say farther, “Ah! Harriet, here comes a very sudden trial of our stability in good thoughts.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

It was vain to attempt to retaliate, so lightly did they spring back and escape; and ever the attack renewed itself from every point, so that on one side man after man was wounded, on the other not a soul was touched; the result being that they could not stir from their position, and the Thracians ended by cutting them off even from their water.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION; OR THE PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

But I shall tell only one story.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

In the Hymn of Creation (v.160-209) where ye occurs fourteen times, the emphasis and the metric stress six times out of seven coincide, and the pronoun is spelt yee; where it is unemphatic, and in an unstressed place, it is spelt ye.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Before luncheon she was alone with them for some time, on one side of the room, while Lord Warburton, at a distance, talked to Mrs. Touchett.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

At four o'clock came the Capellmeister and Herr Schmittbauer, the organist of St. Ulrich, a worthy good old man.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Through the mists which floated over the valley we could see the outlines of steeples and tall roofs; and buildings of a character which indicated thrift and business stretched themselves down to the opposite edge of the river.
— from A Chosen Few: Short Stories by Frank Richard Stockton

"It is so sir," said St. Germain, "after hallooing and calling his name to no purpose I went towards our last encampment about three-quarters of a mile and found him stretched upon his back on a sandbank frozen to death, his limbs all extended and swelled enormously and as hard as the ice that was near him; his bundle was behind him as if it had rolled away when he fell, and the blanket which he wore around his neck and shoulders thrown on one side.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

Here we see the origin of some of Bullions's blunders.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Though much bruised, her senses did not leave her; she uttered no cry; nay, she hailed the accident that had led her to something like a screen; and creeping close up to the angle formed by the buttress, so that on one side at least she was sheltered from view, she gathered her slight and small form into its smallest compass, and breathlessly awaited her fate.
— from The Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The Constitution of the United States, the object of such unfeigned idolatry to the average American, was denounced as "a covenant with hell."
— from Nineteenth Century Questions by James Freeman Clarke

When it is shot the others often seem at a loss what to do, and stop in a state of bewilderment.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

The Major carried her to a species of sofa that occupied one side of the room, and, without calling anyone to his aid, paid her all that attention her case required.
— from The Prairie Flower: A Tale of the Indian Border by Gustave Aimard

" "And since your parents live at Chambery you wished to seize the opportunity of spending a day with them while you were so near?" "Yes, monsieur."
— from At the Villa Rose by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason