As for Castle Brady, the gates of the park were still there; but the old trees were cut down in the avenue, a black stump jutting out here and there, and casting long shadows as I passed in the moonlight over the worn grass-grown old road.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Just think, if it were suddenly declared by public proclamation that all criminal laws were abolished; I believe that neither you nor I would have the courage to go home from here alone under the protection of religious motives.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

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— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

About midnight I returned to the palace and sought Raymond; he was alone, and apparently composed; such composure, at least, was his as is inspired by a resolve to adhere to a certain line of conduct.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This meant that any criminal lawyer would have been bound to start an investigation by insisting that Gould had assurances from the White House or the Treasury, since none other could have satisfied him.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Honor, as well as virtue, was the principle of the republic; the ambitious citizens labored to deserve the solemn glories of a triumph; and the ardor of the Roman youth was kindled into active emulation, as often as they beheld the domestic images of their ancestors.
— 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

A mournful silence, interrupted by tears and groans, declared the sad perplexity of the Barbarians; and their aged chief lamented in pathetic language, that his private loss was now imbittered by a sense of public calamity.
— 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

they are low in statue reather diminutive, and illy shapen; possessing thick broad flat feet, thick ankles, crooked legs wide mouths thick lips, nose moderately large, fleshey, wide at the extremity with large nostrils, black eyes and black coarse hair.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The General talked of this dinner, talked of it even to a court lady; and this lady, one of the most intellectual persons about the court, asked to be invited to meet the Professor the next time he should come.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

It was to be expected of such a man that he should fulfil his destiny by working out some great problems at a time when most men want to retire to a comfortable life of ease.
— from Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. (John Davison) Rockefeller

Some had only eight and nine men to a company left, some only three, four, and five."
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 by Various

Amongst the pioneers of the trade with the Colonies George Thompson, of the Aberdeen Clipper Line, known to generations of Australians as the 130 Aberdeen White Star Line, holds a foremost place.
— from The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock

"Read me the piece where it tells about curried lobster."
— from Something New by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

"Why, Mynheer Fenton, Miss Dudley must allow that a curious luck attends you.
— from The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Clark Russell

'Tis said that absence conquers love!
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

A snake-charmer was busy amusing an idle group of boys and girls in one of the small squares, and a group of dancing girls, with tambourines and castanets, looked wistfully at us, hoping to get an audience; but our yet unhonored breakfast awaited us, and the mountain excursion had imparted healthful appetites.
— from Due West; Or, Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou