It does not contain the spirit of the age, and to a still less extent the spirit of those who are against the age: so it must be burnt.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Finally, after the hook had performed for some time around his head with a dangerous "s-w-i-s-h," it fortunately landed plump into the water, with a thud and splash loud enough to scare all the fish upon dry land.
— from A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral: A Tale of the Santa Fe Trail by John Dunloe Carteret

Without, in the park, he walked thoughtfully to and fro for a while, then, sitting down on the bench where Bella had sat, opened the envelope and counted the money; it amounted to a sum large enough to support a moderate family.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

With respect to the little cares of housekeeping, Jane was easy: she had been so well taught, and so long experienced, that she felt herself quite capable of discharging this part of her duty.
— from Principle and Practice: The Orphan Family by Harriet Martineau

The idle Greek fine gentlemen of Tarentum sat in their theatre one day, overlooking the sea, shaded [Pg 19] by dyed awnings from the afternoon sun, listening entranced to some grand play,—the Œdipus King, perhaps, or Alcestis, or Medea.
— from Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

It was the most modern and up-to-date map that he had been able to procure, and it was drawn to a scale large enough to show not only every town of any importance but also innumerable villages, some of them so small that, as the party had themselves proved, they contained less than a hundred inhabitants.
— from In Search of El Dorado by Harry Collingwood

Also he had a bushy tail and snapping little eyes that seemed to bore clean through whatever he looked at.
— from Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars by James Oliver Curwood