I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Wife to the English knight, Sir Politick Would-be, (This is the style, sir, is directed me,) Hath sent to know how you have slept to-night,
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

Most of the arguments which have convinced me that all the existing species of the same group have descended from one progenitor, apply with nearly equal force to the earliest known species.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

And then I saw, young man, I saw Katerina Ivanovna, in the same silence go up to Sonia’s little bed; she was on her knees all the evening kissing Sonia’s feet, and would not get up, and then they both fell asleep in each other’s arms... together, together...
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Kneaded to irresponsible pulp, half hypnotized by the perpetual flick and readjustment of the uneasy chudders that veiled their eyes, Kim slid ten thousand miles into slumber—thirty-six hours of it—sleep that soaked like rain after drought.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

And he tried, one after another, and then tried each key singly in each lock, but without result.
— from Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon

But truth and honour, as they thought, bound them to the exiled king's side; nor had the banished family any warmer supporter than that kind lady of Castlewood, in whose house Esmond was brought up.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

But the main cause of the woodcock's disappearance is excessive hunting of a bird too easily killed, summer shooting in the North, and [Pg 75] wholesale slaughter during a long winter season in the South.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

The latter attacked and dispersed the expedition, killing several Frenchmen.
— from The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Henry Mann