Now, at the death-hour, he stands up before you!
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

In the Caledonian war, the son of Severus was known only by the appellation of Antoninus, and it may seem strange that the Highland bard should describe him by a nickname, invented four years afterwards, scarcely used by the Romans till after the death of that emperor, and seldom employed by the most ancient historians.
— 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

'She tells me,' he said, 'that the pirates sighted us before the darkness came, and got Long Tom out.'
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

The doubts that were so plain to chase, so dreadful to withstand— Oh, who shall understand but you; yea, who shall understand? The doubts that drove us through the night as we two talked amain, And day had broken on the streets e’er it broke upon the brain.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air; but to and fro in the deeps, far down in the bottomless blue, rushed mighty leviathans, sword-fish, and sharks; and these were the strong, troubled, murderous thinkings of the masculine sea.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Si pudiera conseguir subvenciones más importantes, me gustaría ir hasta un millón y ampliar también nuestros usuarios potenciales de 1,x% a 10% de la población mundial, lo que representaría la distribución de 1000 veces un billón de textos electrónicos en lugar de solamente un billón.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

In the last resort, I repeat, it will be by them that all our philosophies shall ultimately be judged.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

I pass over the fulsome compliments, the cant of the decent procuress, with which she saluted us both; but though my blood rose at the sight of her, I supprest my emotions, and gave all my concerne to reflections on what would be the consequence of this new engagement.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Can one tell what goes on in such undeveloped brains? “I calmed her by subcutaneous injections of morphine, and forbade her to see that man again, for I saw clearly that marriage would infallibly kill her by degrees.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He may have demolished the man of straw which he himself had set up, but he leaves standing the papacy as held by the Catholic Church and defined by the council of Florence.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

“I’m glad you like him, Willie,” said Mrs Willders, who was busy patching the knees of a pair of small unmentionables; “but I wish, dear, that you would not use slang in your speech, and remember that fellow is not spelt with an e-r at the end of it.”
— from Fighting the Flames by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

How elastic a little money could be made when smoothed out by such coaxing taper fingers, and shone upon by such bright and careful eyes!
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

The three boys were very pleased to see us back, and we went up to Mr. McLellan's house for supper.
— from Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians by Edward Francis Wilson

" Le Cateau, after which this battle has come to be named, is a pleasant enough little town set in a country-side not unlike the Sussex uplands between Tonbridge and Hastings—broad, open pasture- and meadow-land, cut by tiny valleys, rolling away south to the dip of St. Quentin.
— from The Retreat from Mons By one who shared in it by Arthur Corbett-Smith

It was perhaps humiliating to find that our Sun was so insignificant in size that from Sirius, for example, it could not be seen with the naked eye, so small indeed that in the close companionship of other stars it would be swallowed up by their greater size and brilliancy.
— from Mars and Its Mystery by Edward Sylvester Morse

In any case the charm of their half-savage, independent mode of life must soon have attracted others, and a fairly regular traffic sprang up between them and the ubiquitous Dutch traders, whom they supplied with hides, tallow and cured meat in return for the few crude necessities and luxuries they required.
— from The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring

“Conceiving he was sent by God to be an umpire between all, and to unite all together, he reduced by arms those whom he could not conquer by persuasion, and formed of a hundred diverse nations one single universal body, mingling, as it were, in one cup of friendship the customs, marriages, and laws of all.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The Bartlett eleven, on the contrary, was badly disheartened and shaken up by the suddenness of the spectacular run.
— from Over the Line by Harold M. (Harold Morrow) Sherman

Answer No. 5 The spark lever should usually be put in about the third or fourth notch of the quadrant (the notched half-circle on which the levers operate).
— from Ford Manual for Owners and Operators of Ford Cars and Trucks (1919) by Ford Motor Company