The French claim much for their own diplomacy in this happy result, and say that England supported Sweden feebly; being willing that she should lose her provinces on the eastern shore of the Baltic because Russia, thus brought down to the sea-shore, could more easily open to English trade the vast resources of her interior.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

You are supposed to have rested and slept the entire night.
— from Time and the Woman by G. Gordon Dewey

Bring the hind and fore legs close to the body towards the head, run a skewer through each, fix the head between the shoulders by means of another skewer, and be careful to leave the ears on.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

The husband returns, and sets the eldest boy to rob his mother; the villany of the father is reproved by Grace, meekly but firmly.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 580, Supplemental Number by Various

The night was so dark that he could not see the shore, except when an occasional flash of lightning revealed it to him; and the wind was blowing directly up the harbor, raising a sea that, even in that sheltered position, made it difficult for the captain to keep his feet without holding fast to something.
— from Go-Ahead; Or, The Fisher-Boy's Motto by Harry Castlemon

The Huascar rammed and sank the Esmeralda , but while his other iron-clad was pursuing the Covadonga , she ran upon the rocks and was lost.
— from The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2 by Thomas Cleland Dawson

Other matters had broken in on and troubled the pleasant current of their love; but now the thought of these was swept aside, and their hearts rose and stretched towards each other.
— from Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

For persons possessing delicate livers—” “Oh, bother delicate livers—at least, I beg your pardon, Uncle Hutchinson,” for an expression of such positive pain had come into Mr. Port’s face at this irreverent reference to an organ that he regarded as sacred that even Dorothy was forced to make some sort of an apology.
— from The Uncle Of An Angel 1891 by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

The big snake turned half round, and saw the egg on the veranda.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The hail rang, and seemed to echo strangely in the fog, but there came no answer.
— from A Sea Queen's Sailing by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler