Perhaps they thought, "How long will that heap of rubbish remain here to be a disgrace to the whole street.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

“All those he is in the habit of receiving!” replied Milady, for whom this conversation began to have a real interest.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Pardon the error of enraged wight, Whom great griefe made forget the raines to hold Of reasons rule, to see this recreant knight, 365 No knight, but treachour full of false despight And shamefull treason, who through guile hath slayn The prowest knight that ever field did fight, Even stout Sansfoy (O who can then refrayn?) Whose shield he beares renverst, the more to heape disdayn.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

The young man called Bull, with an innocent courtesy characteristic of him, insisted on going last until they reached the street; but there his own robust rapidity asserted itself unconsciously, and he walked quickly on ahead towards a railway inquiry office, talking to the others over his shoulder.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The history of regular robbers and highwaymen during this long period is more difficult to describe; it contains only disconnected anecdotes of a more or less interesting character.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

These houses, or rather resorts, had been so called, if we are to believe a writer of the early part of the seventeenth century, "Because rogues ... and others, who have all day been cripples, maimed, dropsical, and beset with every sort of bodily ailment, come home at night, carrying under their arms a sirloin of beef, a joint of veal, or a leg of mutton, not forgetting to hang a bottle of wine to their belt, and, on entering the court, they throw aside their crutches, resume their healthy and lusty appearance, and, in imitation of the ancient Bacchanalian revelries, dance all kinds of dances with their trophies in their hands, whilst the host is preparing their suppers.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

She will bid you good-morning, and go to her own room; ring the bell after she leaves you, and send your card by the waiter to your other friend.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

A woman might indeed nominally obtain a divorce from her husband, but not actually; for the severance of the marital tie would be the work of the house or relatives, rather than the act of the wife, who was not "a person" in the case.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

“The Comte de la Fere wished me to hasten on,” replied Raoul, “that I might rejoin the prince on the morning of the fourth day; let us push on, then, to Noyon; it will be a stage similar to those we traveled from Blois to Paris.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The final chapter in the history of Rancho Repetto is being written.
— from The Romance of the Ranchos by E. Palmer Conner

State portals in a peculiar manner, business secrets pass into the hands of rivals, racehorses develop strange and untimely diseases, husbands take long and mysterious trips from home—a thousand exciting and worrying things may happen to the astonishment, distress, or intense interest of nations, governments, political parties, or private individuals, which from their very nature are outside the purview of the regular police.
— from Courts and Criminals by Arthur Cheney Train

These hues of red rose and pale green ruffled and pouted in the billowy white of the dress ballooning and valleying softly, like a yacht before the sail bends low; but she walked not like one blown against; resembling rather the day of the South-west driving the clouds, gallantly firm in commotion; interfusing colour and varying in her features from laugh to smile and look of settled pleasure, like the heavens above the breeze.
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith

Because of this name, it was thought (until Long's expedition in 1820) to be the headwaters of Red River.—
— from Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839, part 2 by Josiah Gregg

Ranelagh , a place of resort in grounds at Chelsea of people of fashion during the last half of the 18th century, with a promenade where music and dancing were the chief attractions. Rangoon (180), capital and chief port of British Burmah, situated 20 m. inland from the Gulf of Martaban, on the Hlaing or Rangoon River, the eastmost of the delta streams of the Irrawaddy; British since 1852; a well-appointed city of modern appearance, strongly fortified; contains the famous Shway-Dagon pagoda erected in the 6th century B.C.; has extensive docks, and negotiates the vast bulk of Burmese exports and imports; the former include teak, gums, spices, and rice.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

These habits of restraint recur in political society, and are singularly favorable both to the tranquillity of the people and the durability of the institutions it has established.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

In the great struggle for civil equality which fills the history of Rome, religion is the great argument with which the revolutionists are opposed.
— from English Conferences of Ernest Renan: Rome and Christianity. Marcus Aurelius by Ernest Renan

It is situated on the Rainy River, about 20 miles from the head of Rainy River.
— from The Mound Builders by George Bryce

“A piece of the bad gun struck the head of Rushing River, but his breast is sound.
— from The Prairie Chief by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

At the head of raw recruits who ran away at the first sound of a gun, and sepoys who hid themselves as soon as the cannon opened fire, he twice attacked and defeated the French and their Indian allies, foiled every effort of Dupleix, and razed to the ground a pompous pillar which the French governor had set up in honour of his earlier victories.
— from History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 by John Richard Green