The wind howled in the stove; something growled and squeaked as though a big dog had strangled a rat. “Ugh! the unclean spirits are abroad!” said Lyubka.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It was expected to arrive by daylight or before; but the night was dark and the distance great, so that it was nine o'clock the 1st of June before it reached its destination.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

And from thence, a bow draught towards the south, is the church, where Saint James and Zachariah the prophet were buried.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Then anon Balan died, but Balin died not till the midnight after, and so were they buried both, and the lady let make a mention of Balan how he was there slain by his brother's hands, but she knew not Balin's name.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

In that case it would be another example of the gross optimism of these religions denouncing suicide, in order to avoid being denounced by it.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

He then divides the exterior of these angles, by drawing a line parallel with the opposite side of the triangle, and immediately perceives that he has thus got an exterior adjacent angle which is equal to the interior.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

It was a thing taken for granted in ancient and scholastic philosophy that a being dwelling, like man, in the immediate, whose moments are in flux, needed constructive reason to interpret his experience and paint in his unstable consciousness some symbolic picture of the world.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Before, however, he could strike it, the rat, with a squeak that sounded like the concentration of hate, jumped upon the floor, and, running up the rope of the alarm bell, disappeared in the darkness beyond the range of the green-shaded lamp.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

They are mounted into a 'triumphal Car resembling a ship;' are carted over Paris, with the clang of cymbals and drums, all mortals assisting applausive; carted to the Champ-de-Mars and Fatherland's Altar; and finally carted, for Time always brings deliverance,—into invisibility for evermore.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

There was trouble ahead, as the two Army boys discovered on awakening in the morning.
— from Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants; or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

In the Sixth year of the Reign of GEORGE IV. "Peremptorily ordered— "That the Special Constables and Headboroughs of this ancient Bailwick do take into custody all Persons found in any way committing a breach of the Peace, during the Procession of Chairing the Members returned to represent this Borough.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828 by Various

I have arranged with Mrs. Peach that, as soon as we soldiers have entered the town and been dismissed, I’ll meet her there.
— from The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid by Thomas Hardy

The Kiche language in which it was written is most difficult, and for the [Pg 270] present we have to rely on the Spanish version of Ximenez and the French translation of the original by the Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg.
— from An Introduction to Mythology by Lewis Spence

Nelson's agitation had been extreme when he saw himself, before the action began, deprived of a fourth part of his ships
— from Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

Common sense is not only positively necessary to render talent available by directing its proper application, but is indispensable as a monitor to warn men against error.
— from The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of

After that, as Brother Director was obliged to preside at the Council, the boys knew they were safe from disturbance, and the occupants of the large dormitory were the first to stir.
— from Bolax, Imp or Angel—Which? by Josephine Culpeper