“No, if it were unjust, you could not enjoy these advantages and be satisfied—at least I could not.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Their ignorance therefore is more surprising, both on this account and because Sesostris had traversed the whole of Ethiopia as far as the Cinnamon country, of which expedition monuments exist even to the present day, such as pillars and inscriptions.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

There, by reason of the great number of the damned, the prisoners are heaped together in their awful prison, the walls of which are said to be four thousand miles thick: and the damned are so utterly bound and helpless that, as a blessed saint, saint Anselm, writes in his book on similitudes, they are not even able to remove from the eye a worm that gnaws it.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Meat offerings were also laid upon the altars, accompanied by songs and dances in honour of the god.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

As they left the pavilion, Alexey Alexandrovitch, as always, talked to those he met, and Anna had, as always, to talk and answer; but she was utterly beside herself, and moved hanging on her husband’s arm as though in a dream.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Tischendorf also adds b scr* and o scr ; but I read Scrivener’s collations differently ( Cod. Aug. p. 506): or του θεου πατροϲ του χριϲτου , the reading of A C, 4.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

THE DUEL It was nine o'clock of a November morning when a coach, driven out from Richmond, passed a country tavern and a blacksmith's shop, and, turning from the main road, went jolting through a stubble-field down to the steep and grassy bank of the James.
— from Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston

The rank and file of her old friends were startled and sore to discover that the queen of their affections, always before so easy of access, was much absent after business hour in the Convention, from her headquarters
— from Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron's Memories by Caroline E. (Caroline Elizabeth) Merrick

STEEL ROAD DRAG Manufacturers are making road drags of steel with tempered blades adjustable to any angle by simply moving the lever until the dog engages in the proper [226] notch.
— from Farm Mechanics: Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm. by Herbert A. Shearer

There, after a brief service by Rev. Vinton, it was committed to a family burying ground, where the body has rested undisturbed for sixty years.
— from The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical Sketch by W. U. (William Uhler) Hensel

And by this appearance, and by such words of His mouth as He then will speak to them, they shall begin to tremble, and call for the rocks to fall upon them and cover them; for if these things will happen at the execution of inferior judgments, what will be done, what effects will the last, most dreadful, and eternal judgment, have upon men's souls?
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

He went to bed defiantly and got up noisily, full of plans and prospects, and requiring everybody to arise and be stirring, in the most literal sense.
— from A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Rolf Boldrewood

Let them know you're friends All out together and a big storm on.
— from The Americans by Edwin Davies Schoonmaker

We were tearing along at breakneck speed in the twilight of a winter afternoon; there was a great roaring in the air, which drowned even the rattle of the wheels, and looking round I was horrified to see following us a great onrushing wall of water, as though the sea had overflowed the land.
— from Highway Pirates; or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne by Harold Avery