A messenger comes in haste from the asylum to ask us not to stop.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

The most conspicuous of all was himself, riding through the city in a chariot drawn by white horses; and that appeared unbecoming, not to say a citizen, but even a human being.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

He is playing a bass part upon his cello, and so the excitement is nothing to him; no matter what happens in the treble, it is his task to saw out one long-drawn and lugubrious note after another, from four o'clock in the afternoon until nearly the same hour next morning, for his third of the total income of one dollar per hour.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

I made the Indians fear me, and if they attack us now, they shall fear me more, for I have our lives to save as well.
— from Real Gold: A Story of Adventure by George Manville Fenn

These words having been pronounced by the toad with due solemnity, he again went through the apparently unnecessary, not to say unpleasant, process of spitting twice, after which he quietly subsided, and crept under a large root, with a view to a long nap, which might last for a day, a year, or a century, as the humour took him.
— from River Legends; Or, Father Thames and Father Rhine by Brabourne, Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, Baron

One incident has led to another, one act of kindness to another, until now there seems literally no end to the men and women with whom he is in personal touch, who are ready to do anything in their power for him at any time.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

A traveller accosted us near the station, who was probably one of the passengers of the close carriage we had seen near Dovre.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

One may observe, in all languages, certain words that, if they be examined, will be found in their first original, and their appropriated use, not to stand for any clear and distinct ideas.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 by John Locke

It seems saner to seek a cause for the unique daily bath of the Japanese in their also uniquely numerous thermal springs, which occur in no less than 388 different localities.
— from Concerning Lafcadio Hearn; With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould