SECOND WATCH: All right, Mr Kelleher.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Without any legal sentence, without any royal mandate, the patriarch, at the dawn of day, led a seditious multitude to the attack of the synagogues.
— 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

" "The homage rendered to the Sakti may be done before an image of any goddess—Prakriti, Lakshmi, Bhavani, Durga, Maya, Parvati, or Devi—just in the same way as Romanists may pray to a local Mary, or any other.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

‘It was an ungallant speech, certainly,’ said Nicholas, looking up to see who the speaker was, and recognising Miss Snevellicci.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The silence, which again reigned, made her ashamed of her late fears, and she believed, that her imagination had deluded her, or that she had heard one of those unaccountable noises, which sometimes occur in old houses.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

When a ship is sailing on the sea, vigilance must not be relaxed night or day; and the vessel of state is tossing in a political sea, and therefore watch must continually succeed watch, and rulers must join hands with rulers.
— from Laws by Plato

Good old John Sedley was a ruined man.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

, She wants a rugged man for a husband.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If of a different character it could not be enforced, and the states whose acknowledged rights might be affected, could interfere and arrest the circulation.”
— from The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion by Lindsay Rogers

She is very fair, with a face which, though washed out, is none the less stern, with a rough manner of speaking.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

Disasters had now become so frequent to the Confederates in the Valley that some wag at Richmond marked a fresh shipment of new guns destined for Early's army: " General Sheridan, care of Jubal A.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

The legend of St Agnes is that she was a Roman maid, by birth a Christian, who suffered martyrdom when but thirteen during the reign of the emperor Diocletian, on the 21st of January 304.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Hurling clusters of rocks up at heaven, he ran with hisses and screams, while a red mass of flame bubbled from his mouth.
— from A Book of Giants: Tales of Very Tall Men of Myth, Legend, History, and Science. by Henry Wysham Lanier

Shows what Astonishing Results may follow from taking the Wrong Road.
— from Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The street which shaped itself to the stream was a rather modern avenue, leading to a beautiful public garden, with the statues and fountains proper to a public garden, and densely shaded against the three infernal months of the Burgos year.
— from Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells