They arrived at the drinking room of the Parpaillot.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Under the arm a trusty dagger rests, Each spiked knee-piece its murderous power attests.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

The median nerve itself, D, Plate 16, takes a direct course down the arm; and the different relative positions which this nerve holds in reference to the artery, C, at the upper end, the middle, and the lower end of the arm, occur mainly in consequence of the undulating character of the vessel itself.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Then she fell to work like an inspired woman; and at noon a sumptuous dinner "smoked upon the board;" the children were scrubbed till their faces shone; and the room was as fresh and neat as any apartment could be with the penetrating perfume of burnt flapjacks still pervading the air, and three dozen ruffled nightcaps decorating the clothes-lines overhead.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

“The Spada family was one of the oldest and most powerful families of the fifteenth century; and in those times, when other opportunities for investment were wanting, such accumulations of gold and jewels were by no means rare; there are at this day Roman families perishing of hunger, though possessed of nearly a million in diamonds and jewels, handed down by entail, and which they cannot touch.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Anthony sat back on the oak bench and sighed, and glanced round at the interested faces of the theologians and the yawns of the amateurs, as the debate rolled on over the old ground, and touched on free will, and grace, and infant baptism; until the Lieutenant interposed: "Master Doctors," he said, with a judicial air, "the question that was appointed before dinner was, whether the visible Church may err"—to which Goode retorted that the digressions were all Campion's fault.
— from By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson

After referring to the almost clamorous demand for further facilities in the transmission of letters, a demand which could not be effectually met without energetic and cordial co-operation in the higher departments of the Executive, and ready obedience and zealous activity in all the subordinates, I concluded as follows:— “Having written thus far, and having also carefully considered every statement and every remark I have made, I feel it my duty to say that, after all the deliberation required by so grave a question, I have arrived at the settled conviction that the existing state of things cannot continue; and I therefore respectfully request that in considering the present application such continuance may not be regarded as a possible alternative.
— from The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Hill, Rowland, Sir

The Marsh-warbler, the Aquatic-warbler, and others of their kind, are all to be seen by the rivers and lakes of our lowest region (No. 1), rarely ascending higher; and he who has the courage to spend a few days in the baking and biting valley of the Rhone, for example, will find them all among the desolate reed- and willow-beds of that, to man, most inhospitable river.
— from A Year with the Birds Third Edition, Enlarged by W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler

A canal which has been cut through the valley, between the house and Halesowen, so far from injuring the prospect, as many of these things are apt to do, rather improves it than otherwise, giving a rest to the eye, and shutting out, by its embankment, sundry forges which would otherwise be visible.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 1 (of 2) by William Howitt

How could they acted as they did, rambelous often and often, wanderin' from the right road, but still not gittin' away from the Divine care.
— from Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley

Gow Johnson saw, too late, that he had roused a spirit as hard to appease as the demon roused in O’Ryan earlier in the evening.
— from Northern Lights, Complete by Gilbert Parker

"I have engaged myself as scout with a caravan, which I have given the meeting at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon, at the Del Rubio ford.
— from The Indian Scout: A Story of the Aztec City by Gustave Aimard

"She's been left alone a week or two at a time during roundups.
— from Sawtooth Ranch by B. M. Bower

But she could not sleep; she heard her father come in and go up to his room, heard the clocks strike midnight, and one, and two, and always the dull roar of Piccadilly.
— from Beyond by John Galsworthy

He announced to Frederick William that 112 Prince Frederick was a prince of the empire, and that he was entitled to the protection of the laws of the Germanic body; that the heir-apparent of the Prussian monarchy was under the safeguard of the Germanic empire, and that the king was bound to surrender to this tribunal the accused, and the documents relative to this trial.
— from History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great. by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott