Many go to see the image with their eyes shut, and sometimes bound with a cloth.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

this last is by many persons in the U States confounded with the large goat-sucker or night-hawk as it is called in the Eastern States, and are taken for the same bird.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Was there ever such a fate!”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

—Our age is proud of its historical sense: how, then, could it delude itself into believing that the crude fable of the wonder-worker and Saviour constituted the beginnings of Christianity—and that everything spiritual and symbolical in it only came later?
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The rash proceedings of Pisa were corrected by the council of Constance; the emperor Sigismond acted a conspicuous part as the advocate or protector of the Catholic church; and the number and weight of civil and ecclesiastical members might seem to constitute the states-general of Europe.
— 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

In the Euxine there are, at a distance of a mile and a half from the European shore, and of fourteen from the mouth of the Strait, the two Cyanæan 2871 islands, by some called the Symplegades 2872 , and stated in fabulous story to have run the one against the other; the reason being the circumstance that they are separated by so short an interval, that while to those who enter the Euxine opposite to them they appear to be two distinct islands, but if viewed in a somewhat oblique direction they have the appearance of becoming gradually united into one.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

In 1813, Dr. Strachan succeeded Dr. Stuart as incumbent of the church; and in 1818 he induced the congregation to effect some alterations in the structure.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Just see you don’t get lost in those endless swamps and forests.
— from The Lure of the Mississippi by D. (Dietrich) Lange

No other man in London would have had the daring to plan, or the skill to execute, such a heroic measure.
— from Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Arthur Conan Doyle

The English Sunday at home is in many cases even worse than the Sunday out.
— from Nights in London by Thomas Burke

I'd like to earn something and make it do.
— from The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

Sometimes, unable to resist the spell, a man would fling himself off his horse, dash into the enclosure, seize a girl by the waist, whirl around with her through one dance, then out again and into the saddle, where he sat, proudly aware of his vantage.
— from Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Hunt Jackson