Representative Carrier went to the Guillotine, in December last; protesting that he acted by orders.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The captain, a wise man, after many endeavours to catch me tripping in some part of my story, at last began to have a better opinion of my veracity.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Teeth he accounted bits of ivory; heads he deemed but top-blocks; men themselves he lightly held for capstans.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Society does not like to have any breath of question blown on the existing order.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Some persons may perhaps desire to restore to infantry the helmets and breastplates of the fifteenth century, before leading them to the attack in deployed lines.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Straightway large-eyed queenly Hera took him and bringing one evil thing to another such, gave him to the dragoness; and she received him.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Once or twice, Nicholas drove him out, propped up with pillows; but the motion of the chaise was painful to him, and brought on fits of fainting, which, in his weakened state, were dangerous.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

But we jerked our head away, hid our face upon our tied hands, and bit our lips.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand

On hearing that sound Natásha put down the stocking, leaned nearer to him, and suddenly, noticing his shining eyes, stepped lightly up to him and bent over him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

‘Mas’r Davy,’ he said, when we had shaken hands, ‘I giv Em’ly your letter, sir, and she writ this heer; and begged of me fur to ask you to read it, and if you see no hurt in’t, to be so kind as take charge on’t.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

"The hounds are baying on my track: O white man!
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 by Charles Dudley Warner

"Probably will," admitted the Major, "but there's sure to be a native village near by, and though their houses are built of snow, they always have a litter of black things about—sleds, hunting implements, skins, and the like.
— from Lost in the Air by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

From his right cheek bone there had already sprouted a “hickey” fit to hang a bucket on.
— from Our Square and the People in It by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Arrived at Fort Garry, the settler found the troubles and discomforts soon forgotten in the hurry and bustle of a new life.
— from John Black, the Apostle of the Red River Or, How the Blue Banner Was Unfurled on Manitoba Prairies by George Bryce

The hounds are baying on my track, Ole master comes behind, Resolved that he will bring me back, Before I cross de line; I'm now embarked for yonder shore, There a man's a man by law; The iron horse will bear me o'er, To shake de lion's paw.
— from Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

[52] Slowly, tremblingly, feeling her weakness, she stole towards him, a bunch of grass in her hand she had plucked as she came, holding it obviously as she had fed a lump of sugar or an apple to her finely groomed mare in New York.
— from The Man of the Desert by Grace Livingston Hill

I just want us to have a bit of fun, and to teach the horrid paying girls of the school a lesson."
— from The Rebel of the School by L. T. Meade

There vanished the last remnant of his stoic pride; and there—Evelyn herself forgotten—there did he pray to Heaven for pardon to himself, and blessings on the heart he had betrayed.
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

[82] and leaves of the flower as essential to an artistic arrangement, that flowers of the same kind should be grouped together, and that harmony and blending of colour are necessary to secure the most artistic effects.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration by Charles Franklin Warner

The Chimœra is a monster that vomits fire, and has the head and breast of a lion, the belly of a goat, and the tail [Pg 69] of a dragon.
— from The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together with Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by James (Archaeologist) Grant