At last, swooping at a street corner by a fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt, and there was a loud cry from a number of voices, and the horses reared and plunged.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Setting her own inclination apart, to have failed a second time in her engagement to Miss Tilney, to have retracted a promise voluntarily made only five minutes before, and on a false pretence too, must have been wrong.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

For myself, I concur in opinion with such as suppose the people of Germany never to have mingled by inter-marriages with other nations, but to have remained a people pure, and independent, and resembling none but themselves.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

How tediously the hours rolled away prior to the appointed time of meeting; how swift they seemed to fly, when met; how fond was the {193} first greeting; how tender the last embrace; how fervent were your vows; how vivid your dreams of future happiness, when, returning to your home, you felt yourself secure in the confessed love of the object of your warm affections!
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

[p. 144] -lying wisdom of a Higher Cause, directing itself towards the ultimate practical end of the human race and predetermining the course of things with a view to its realisation.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Yet the Romans boldly advanced from the Araxes to the Tigris, and the timid prudence of Rhazates was content to follow them by forced marches through a desolate country, till he received a peremptory mandate to risk the fate of Persia in a decisive battle.
— 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

That is to say, the tunnel had reached a point in the hill which was considerably beyond where the coal vein should pass (according to all his calculations) if there were a coal vein there; and so, every foot that the tunnel now progressed seemed to carry it further away from the object of the search.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

“It is this, madame: that you should appear to have reflected, and publicly acknowledge an error, which constitutes the extra strength of a strong government; release Broussel from prison and give him back to the people.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

usked grain is then commonly winnowed in a sieve, and [ 122 ] the unhusked rice ( antah ) which remains has to be separated from the husked rice and pounded over again.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Cornaro, who was the Author of the little Treatise I am mentioning, was of an Infirm Constitution, till about forty, when by obstinately persisting in an exact Course of Temperance, he recovered a perfect State of Health; insomuch that at fourscore he published his Book, which has been translated into English upon the Title of Sure and certain Methods 6 of attaining a long and healthy Life.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The Inquisition owes its birth to this war; an institution at once fatal to humanity, religion, and patriotism.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

At her earnest request they allowed Melville, Bourgoyne, Jervis, Gourgon, Didier, Jane Kennedy, and Elspeth Curle to be present, at which, by the witness of all, she showed her great and royal courage, her constancy, above all her firmness to her religion and piety.
— from The Last Days of Mary Stuart, and the journal of Bourgoyne her physician by Samuel Cowan

I brought the boxes to her room and placed them on the table.
— from Two Years in the Forbidden City by Princess Der Ling

There were many other things which Jesus said to Joseph on this occasion, but the prophet never recorded them further than to say that he received a promise that the fullness of the gospel would at some future time be made known to him.
— from Outlines of Ecclesiastical History by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

The beef, the bread, and the salmon, which Fremont brought, put heart into the starving men, and before long they had reached a permanent camp not far from Sutter’s fort.
— from Trails of the Pathfinders by George Bird Grinnell

Gradually, however, the admission was forced that the secrecy being preserved was due to the Japanese threat that publicity would be met with the harshest reprisals; and presently the veil was entirely lifted by newspaper publication and foreign Ambassadors began making inquiries in Tokio.
— from The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

"With regard to the date of the invention, you appear to have received ample proof, and I am able to add thereto.
— from The Adhesive Postage Stamp by Patrick Chalmers

This little vessel now proceeded to tow southward her vast prize, uninjured, except that her rudder and propeller-blades were broken and useless.
— from The Great War Syndicate by Frank Richard Stockton

They have reached a point where they don't even respect the Church.
— from The Inside of the Cup — Complete by Winston Churchill