After what it considers a sufficient interval to effect its purpose, the crocodile seizes the body of the drowned man and rises to the surface, when it “calls upon the Sun, Moon, and Stars to bear
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Towards the last of these long seven weeks I admitted, what through the other six I had jealously excluded—the conviction that these blanks were inevitable: the result of circumstances, the fiat of fate, a part of my life's lot and—above all—a matter about whose origin no question must ever be asked, for whose painful sequence no murmur ever uttered.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

These demanding to have them, (tired with ceaseless excitement, and rack'd by the war-strife,) These to procure incessantly asking, rising in cries from my heart, While yet incessantly asking still I adhere to my city, Day upon day and year upon year O city, walking your streets, Where you hold me enchain'd a certain time refusing to give me up, Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich'd of soul, you give me forever faces; (O I see what I sought to escape, confronting, reversing my cries, see my own soul trampling down what it ask'd for.)
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Sir W. Coventry answered, and the Duke of York merrily agreed to it, that it was very hard to know what it was that the Parliament would call conformity at this time, and so it stopped, which I only observe to see how the Parliament’s present temper do amuse them all.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She saw that he wanted to engage her on the old subject of his grievances, and she was in no humour to indulge him.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Since I have been used to resort hither, I have seen give out every day to a multitude of poor folk now one and now two vast great cauldrons of broth, which had been taken away from before yourself and the other brethren of this convent, as superfluous; wherefore, if for each one of these cauldrons of broth there be rendered you an hundred in the world to come, you will have so much thereof that you will assuredly all be drowned therein.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

I swear that you are the most unhappy and sublime of men; and, if ever again I shiver when I look at you, it will be because I am thinking of the splendor of your genius!'
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

And as soon would I have expected the attendance of the Caliph of Bagdad.
— from The Paternoster Ruby by Charles Edmonds Walk

The speech was, in brief, a powerful, passionate denunciation of Austria, and the principles which Austria represented before Sadowa taught her a lesson of tardy wisdom.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

“Aunt Tishy,” said Miss Herrick, indicating him with a movement of her bright head, as he sat withdrawn into his coign of vantage, like a hermit-crab within its shell, “that’s the new Englishman, Mr. Roden.”
— from Virginia of Virginia: A Story by Amélie Rives

She wished ardently that she was in Moze again.
— from The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett

I took a long piece of string from my pocket, and she lifted his head with the spade while I tied a noose around it.
— from My Ántonia by Willa Cather

In the same way, if a set of nestlings of another species be substituted for those already in the nest, the parent birds will usually feed the new family without noticing the change.
— from Birds of the Plains by Douglas Dewar

He had taken a prayer book from his knapsack and was trying to read a service for soldiers wounded in battle.”
— from Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War Including the Tragic Destruction of the Lusitania by Logan Marshall

These parts become firmly imbedded in the ground, but moisture still has access, and it begins to work immediately; for all water moving underground finds soluble substances which it picks up and carries with it wherever it goes, and much of the load consists of mineral matter which may be unloaded again when the necessary conditions are found.
— from Fossils: A Story of the Rocks and Their Record of Prehistoric Life by Harvey C. Markman