It was only after I had perceived all these things that the meaning of that headlong rush of the earth grew into comprehension.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Combining with taste her remembrance of the edifices which she had seen in the east, and by an effort of genius enduing them with unity of design, she executed the plan which had been sent to the Protector.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Timur, or Tamerlane, was educated in a less barbarous age, and in the profession of the Mahometan religion; yet, if Attila equalled the hostile ravages of Tamerlane, either the Tartar or the Hun might deserve the epithet of the Scourge of God.
— 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

57 Note 54 ( return ) [ At the time of the synod, Phranzes was in Peloponnesus: but he received from the despot Demetrius a faithful account of the honorable reception of the emperor and patriarch both at Venice and Ferrara, (Dux.... sedentem Imperatorem adorat ,) which are more slightly mentioned by the Latins, (l. ii.
— 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

I too, when I have descended into the hollow recesses of the earth, and in my rage have placed my back against its lowest depths, disturb the shades below, and the whole globe with earthquakes.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

The information he had received was very vague; one of the porters, rushing out to be in readiness for the train, had seen a scuffle, at the other end of the platform, between Leonards and a gentleman accompanied by a lady, but heard no noise; and before the train had got to its full speed after starting, he had been almost knocked down by the headlong run of the enraged half intoxicated Leonards, swearing and cursing awfully.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

In all the foregoing, General MacArthur was not simply trying to score a point against Judge Taft, though his resentment of the effort of the Taft Commission of 1900 to mix politics with war in the presidential year was quite as decided, and quite as well known in the islands at the time, as was General Otis’s similar attitude toward the Schurman Commission of the previous year.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Toleration he considered due to an inapt distinction between freedom to think and freedom to talk, and any magistrate "while he thinks himself right ... ought to enforce what he thinks."
— from Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski

The foam, cast incessantly by the surf upon the rocks and sometimes more than a hundred feet in the air, had filled with sea water a natural cave situated among the high rocks overlooking the excavation.
— from Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

The mother-superior had been forced to lift her voice, in concluding, to make it distinct above the hoarse roar of the elements outside.
— from The Return of the O'Mahony: A Novel by Harold Frederic

In a letter to Murray, April 17, 1818, he shows that he is right, and takes his revenge on the editor (George Edward) Griffiths, and his "scribbler Mr. Hodgson."— Letters , 1900, iv.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

In fact, when Mr. Mills was found not to have returned on Thursday evening, he went up to London next day to see him, since we both supposed he had been detained there."
— from The Blotting Book by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

SWEET SILENT THOUGHT 37 DID NOT THE HEAVENLY RHETORIC OF THINE EYE 38
— from The Flower of the Mind by Alice Meynell

proved how, in contrast to the honourable reputation of the English Queen of Tragedy, Sarah Siddons, the character and life of the gifted French actress were miserably beneath her genius.
— from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 by Sarah Tytler

The next minute the wagon wheels tipped down as if they had run over the edge of a precipice a mile high.
— from The High Calling by Charles M. Sheldon

At last, the heavy rains of the early sixties played havoc with the tower, and toward the end of 1861 the clock had set such a pace for itself regardless of the rest of the universe that the newspapers were full of facetious jibes concerning the once serviceable timepiece, and many were the queries as to whether something could not be done to roof the mechanism?
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark