Here he is generally surrounded by an admiring throng of ostlers, stableboys, shoeblacks, and those nameless hangers-on that infest inns and taverns, and run errands and do all kind of odd jobs for the privilege of battening on the drippings of the kitchen and the leakage of the tap-room.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

This prediction referred to a Roman emperor, as the event shewed; but the Jews, applying it to themselves, broke out into rebellion, and having defeated and slain their governor 736 , routed the lieutenant of Syria 737 , a man of consular rank, who was advancing to his assistance, and took an eagle, the standard, of one of his legions.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Her guilt and shame (such is the absurd language of imperious man) were soon betrayed by the appearances of pregnancy; but the disgrace of the royal family was published to the world by the imprudence of the empress Placidia who dismissed her daughter, after a strict and shameful confinement, to a remote exile at Constantinople.
— 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

“Aye, thee't allays ready enough at prayin', but I donna see as thee gets much wi' thy prayin'.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

There was, however, a servant of the king’s who favoured the huntsmen, and when he heard that they were going to be put to this test he went to them and repeated everything, and said: ‘The lion wants to make the king believe that you are girls.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

How charming to a refined ear are ABSKIZE , CATAWAMPOUSLY , EXFLUNCTIFY , OBSCUTE , KESLOSH , KESOUSE , KESWOLLOP , and KEWHOLLUX !
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Lloyd George began to heckle the Allies regarding equipment and guns and Susan said you would hear more of Lloyd George yet.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

There was, however, a servant of the King's who favored the huntsmen, and when he heard that they were going to be put to this test he went to them and repeated everything, and said, "The lion wants to make the King believe that you are girls."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

They had heard the American Revolution extolled and its course approved, because the Spaniards disliked England.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

On all the American rivers, east and west, a lusty crew, collected from the waning Indian trade and the disbanded pioneer armies, found work to its taste in poling the long keel boats, "cordelling" the bulky barges—that is, towing them by pulling on a line attached to the shore—or steering the "broadhorns" or flatboats that transported the first heavy inland river cargoes.
— from The Paths of Inland Commerce; A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway by Archer Butler Hulbert

Then Arthur remembered everything, and something of his old prejudice came back to him, and his manner was a little constrained as he talked to the boy, whose only fault was that Harold Hastings had been his father and that he bore his name.
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

" Thus reassured, the artist risked everything, and commenced by following the curate to church.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

They must be milled to give them a rough edge, and they must be stamped.
— from Diggers in the Earth by Eva March Tappan

Therefore the assumption that an engine more efficient than the reversible engine exists must be abandoned; and we have the conclusion that all reversible engines are equally efficient.
— from Lord Kelvin: An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray

Hence, delightful and inspiring as it is to read this story of diligent and dis 165 criminating cultivation, of accurate truth and real erudition and beauty, not vaguely but methodically interpreted, one has some of the sensations of the moral and intellectual hothouse.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various

The thick wall of the nerve-tube, which runs through the long axis of the body immediately over the axial rod, encloses a narrow central canal filled with fluid (Figures 1.98 to 1.102 r).
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Haeckel

Mrs. Hopkins wrote a letter to a real estate agent at Harmon Beach, and Jerry was so anxious to have the plan succeed that he did not forget to mail the epistle which his mother gave him to post as he was going out.
— from The Motor Boys on the Atlantic; or, The Mystery of the Lighthouse by Clarence Young