The company had now staid so long, that Mrs Fitzpatrick plainly perceived they all designed to stay out each other.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Meanwhile Minerva flung her richly embroidered vesture, made with her own hands, on to her father's threshold, and donned the shirt of Jove, arming herself for battle.
— from The Iliad by Homer

I see and have seen worse things, and divers things so hideous, that I should neither like to speak of all matters, nor even keep silent about some of them: namely, men who lack everything, except that they have too much of one thing—men who are nothing more than a big eye, or a big mouth, or a big belly, or something else big,—reversed cripples, I call such men.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And he cried out: "Dost thou stand there already, Dost thou stand there already, Boniface?
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

An aristocratic body is composed of a certain number of citizens who, without being very far removed from the mass of the people, are, nevertheless, permanently stationed above it: a body which it is easy to touch and difficult to strike; with which the people are in daily contact, but with which they can never combine.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Jude did not permit himself to speak, but turned and descended the stairs.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

But they do say,' she added, lowering her voice, 'they do say, that the Signora has been seen, several times since, walking in the woods and about the castle in the night: several of the old servants, who remained here some time after, declare they saw her; and, since then, she has been seen by some of the vassals, who have happened to be in the castle, at night.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The almost boiling water rises to the top of the boiler and thence finds its way up the flow pipe into the hot-water tank A , displacing the somewhat colder water there, which descends through the return pipe to the bottom of the boiler.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

But it would be inadequate, the lacks would still be so great: the confined sense, the sense of suffocation, the atmospheric dimness, the sweaty heat—these would all be there, in place of the Australian openness to the sky, the sunshine and the breeze.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Lady Bassett had just time to take in the beauty and artistic character of the place, and to realize the appalling drudgery that stamped it a workshop, when the author, who had dashed into his garden for a moment's recreation, came to the window, and furnished contrast No. 3.
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

From sunrise till four o’clock in the afternoon did the struggle continue, every British gun being incessantly engaged in repelling the advances of dense masses of the enemy.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

To show the emptiness of human greatness he ordered that after death his teeth should be drawn, his body polled and shaved ( rasé et épilé ), and exposed for a whole day, 165 then enclosed in a sack of quicklime and placed in a coffin which he had carried about with him since 1515, and buried in the church of the castle of Nieustad under the altar dedicated to Saint George, in such a position that his head should be under the feet of the celebrant.
— from The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne

From information supplied by Charles Schweder, it appears that virtually all of the animals desert the southern portion of the Barren Grounds at this season.
— from The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper

They accordingly descended the stairs, and crossed the entrance-hall to a large drawing-room, simply but handsomely furnished; having some good pictures on the walls, an organ at one end of the room, a piano and harp at the other, and an elegantly-disposed luncheon in the middle.
— from Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock

There could be no doubt about it that if we continued steaming at our present pace we should make Tralee a day too soon—an eventuality which had appeared so improbable that none of those who planned our voyage had taken it into account.
— from Gun running for Casement in the Easter rebellion, 1916 by Karl Spindler

Even when contractions reach choreic intensity the best treatment is to throw activities down the scale that measures the difference between primary and secondary movements and to make the former predominate.
— from Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley (Granville Stanley) Hall

He was appointed by the continental congress first major general, commanded the right wing of the army during the Siege of Boston, and was left in command of the eastern department on the removal of Washington to New York.
— from The Command in the Battle of Bunker Hill With a Reply to "Remarks on Frothingham's History of the Battle, by S. Swett" by Richard Frothingham

"Supposing Germany takes the plunge, and then England, contrary to anticipation, decides to support France?"
— from The Double Traitor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim