He must get out of the city, and that quickly.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Mr. Cave was unable to ascertain if the winged Martians were the same as the Martians who hopped about the causeways and terraces, and if the latter could put on wings at will.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

One clan may not eat the tiger, another the ape, another the crocodile, another the dog, another the cat, another the dove,
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

While writing this book, fully a quarter of a century since, it occurred to us that the French name of this lake was too complicated, the American too commonplace, and the Indian too unpronounceable, for either to be used familiarly in a work of fiction.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

It was in vain that Constantine repeated the most dreadful menaces of fire and sword against the Borderers who should dare desert their colors, to connive at the inroads of the Barbarians, or to participate in the spoil.
— 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

There remaineth in this church a table whereon it is written, I know not by what authority, but of a late hand, that King Lucius founded the same church to be an archbishop’s see metropolitan, [162] and chief church of his kingdom, and that it so endured the space of four hundred years, unto the coming of Augustin the monk.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

It was dark in the morning, when I got upon the coach at the inn door.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Their plan was to preach according to that Confession, and to restore the discipline.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

I’ll have the matter taken to court, and then I’ll show you!
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

28. Aemilius had heard of the landing of the legions at 125 Pisae, but had not expected them to be already so far on their road; but the contest at the eminence proved to him that the two armies were quite close.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

[Pg 68] Nay, I have seen them inflamed to such a passion as to take the mantles from their women’s shoulders, telling them to protect themselves from the cold as they could.
— from The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne

The chief arranged them in marching column.
— from What's Mine's Mine — Complete by George MacDonald

If we purchase a box of matches a portion of the price goes to the inventor; if we buy a bicycle the chances are that we pay royalty to a dozen or more inventors at once.
— from One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

Stalin revealed intense interest in only three topics: (1) urging the western allies to make a frontal assault, across the English Channel, on Hitler's fortress Europe; (2) finding out, immediately, the name of the man whom the western allies would designate to command such an operation (Eisenhower had not yet been selected); and (3) reducing the whole of Europe to virtual impotence so that the Soviet Union would be the only major power on the continent after the war.
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

Major Rogers at once ordered his men to concentrate at the top of the hill, and although closely pressed by the enemy, and losing several more of their number, including Captain Spikeman, they succeeded in effecting the manœuvre, and in securing an advantageous position for defending themselves, from which they maintained a brisk fire upon their assailants that prevented them from closing in upon them.
— from With Rogers on the Frontier: A Story of 1756 by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

"It is a day for winter sports, and all kinds of fun, and you shall sit in the casino at the Deer Park and see it for yourself," said Gerda, giving Karen a loving hug.
— from Gerda in Sweden by Etta Blaisdell McDonald

Of course we availed ourselves of the courtesy; and the more readily as we immediately discovered that we were in the grounds of a wealthy Saraf, who was the neighbour of Tingler-Oglou; and who had lately built the magnificent mansion which lay below the terrace on the edge of the channel; and married the beautiful girl who stood beside us, smiling at the success of her harmless deceit.
— from The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

Prince Edward himself led the charge against the Londoners—he had not forgotten the insult they had recently offered to his mother—and succeeded in driving them off the field.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

We all went up to him, and the curate among the first, asking, “What ailed him?”
— from Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo

The Cat and the Book 139 What Willy did 146 The Brothers that did not quarrel 150 Home from the Woods 153 Winifred Waters ( with music ) 160
— from The Nursery, November 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 5 by Various