Nevertheless they fuss as much over their eggs as some elderly ladies of my acquaintance do over their baggage when travelling.
— from Jungle Folk: Indian Natural History Sketches by Douglas Dewar

Rome destroyed Fidenæ, that it might not grow up as a rival to the empire; and so entirely laid waste Falisci and Veii, that it is not easy to attach so much faith to ancient records as to believe that those cities ever were powerful.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

It was altogether too much work for the calves and the chickens to get across that crack in the earth, and so everyone lived in peace.”
— from Annie Laurie and Azalea by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

The excommunicated and schismatic emperor, Louis of Bavaria, welcomed the advances of Burghersh.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

From very babyhood she was [127] earnestly religious, and of a peculiarly serious temperament; though at the same time energetic and sometimes even lively.
— from A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker by Agnes Giberne

Botho put the three cards back in the envelope and said: "Exactly like Katherine.
— from German Fiction by Gottfried Keller

We have been too much accustomed to think of the ether as something excessively light and quite the reverse of massive or dense, in which it appears we have been wrong.
— from Alchemy: Ancient and Modern Being a Brief Account of the Alchemistic Doctrines, and Their Relations, to Mysticism on the One Hand, and to Recent Discoveries in Physical Science on the Other Hand; Together with Some Particulars Regarding the Lives and Teachings of the Most Noted Alchemists by H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley) Redgrove

He went to the back door, and stared at the blackness to the east, and, sure enough, lightning was blinking there.
— from Over the Sliprails by Henry Lawson