“A brief respite from instant death,” said Rebecca, “which will little avail me—was this all thou couldst do for one, on whose head thou hast heaped sorrow, and whom thou hast brought near even to the verge of the tomb?”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

And what is the name which the city derives from the possession of this sort of knowledge?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Gabriel could not easily thrust himself within speaking distance of the sergeant, and he sent a message, asking him to come down for a moment.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

This codex dates from the beginning,
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The first is that the critical desire for accuracy which fortunately seems to have been the keynote of research during the nineteenth century, has produced students of Armory whose investigations into facts have swept away the fables, the myths, and the falsehood which had collected around the ancient science, and which in their preposterous assertions had earned for Armory a ridicule, a contempt, and a disbelief which the science itself, and moreover the active practice of the science, had never at any time warranted or deserved.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

But there was no answering voice—no sweet, low tone, coming down from on high, whispering to my soul, "It is I, be not afraid."
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

The crowd of disappointed urchins stared till the carriage disappeared from view, then transferred their stare to Maria, who had abruptly become the most important person on the street.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Thus, Mr. Wallace, who has lately called attention to the subject, has shown that the females of certain species of butterflies, in the Malayan Archipelago, regularly appear under two or even three conspicuously distinct forms, not connected by intermediate varieties.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

As in the legend of the Hydra two heads spring up in place of that which falls, so in this Christian legend out of the overthrown monster, henceforth himself concealed, two arise from his inspiration,—the seven-headed, ten-horned Beast who continues the work of wrath and pain; but also a lamb-like Beast, with only two horns (far less terrible), and able to deceive by his miracles, for he is even able to call down fire from heaven.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

When the cold daylight fell upon John’s face, as he dressed himself next morning, the incipient yesterday’s wrinkle in his forehead had become permanently graven there.
— from The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy

Instead of pleasing “Borega Sama,” this offer to include an “adopted son” in the compact distinctly frightened him.
— from Japanese Plays and Playfellows by Osman Edwards

It is the conclusions drawn from it by the followers of Christ that are disputed.
— from Exposition of the Apostles' Creed by James Dodds

He looked very stern and uncompromising this young man, half bailiff, half farm servant in appearance, as he stood there in the lane, about a mile from Joe Banks’s house, and facing the men who had kept up the conversational duet, for they were about as ill-looking a pair of scoundrels as a traveller was likely to meet in a day’s march.
— from The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn

The freedom broadening with the wars that cease? Do foes clasp hands in brotherhood again?
— from The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus

The Cuckoo departs from the Channel Islands much about the same time that it does from England on its southern migration in August or September.
— from Birds of Guernsey (1879) And the Neighbouring Islands: Alderney, Sark, Jethou, Herm; Being a Small Contribution to the Ornitholony of the Channel Islands by Cecil Smith

Outdoor sports were made much of at Lakeview Hall, not only in the catalogue designed for the perusal of parents, but in actual fact.
— from Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach; Or, Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves by Annie Roe Carr

[205] From the citadel we walked to the Mardîn Gate along the chemin de ronde , a fine course, lifted high above the close air of the city and swept by the breezes that come down from Taurus ( Fig. 208 ).
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

This species comes very close, as far as the characters derived from the trophi serve, to the L. truncata , though readily distinguished from that species by the shape of the valves.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin