She turned the pages of the grammar, and their heads were inclined toward each other.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Eight years afterwards, while the sun was in Capricorn, another comet appeared to follow in the Sagittary; the size was gradually increasing; the head was in the east, the tail in the west, and it remained visible above forty days.
— 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

To reward every man according to his works, is to execute the Office of a King; and this is not to be till he come in the glory of his Father, with his Angells.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

He takes off the hat and overcoat; throws them carelessly on the newspaper stand; disposes of his coat in the same way; puts on the smoking jacket; and throws himself wearily into the easy-chair at the hearth.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

I have a mule and two horses waiting in the Eagle Ravine.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Having learned the composition of the hexameter, which is the easiest of all verses, I had the patience to measure out the greater part of Virgil into feet and quantity, and whenever I was dubious whether a syllable was long or short, immediately consulted my Virgil.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What made you think that he was in the Engineers?”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Yet his attention had never before been so sharply and decisively arrested; and it was with a strong, superstitious prevision of success that he withdrew into the entry of the court.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Their leading ships made the shore just under the headland called the Hermaeum, which is the extreme point on the east of the Gulf of Carthage, and runs out into the open sea in the direction of Sicily.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

She still hoped, despite her better judgment, that he would in the end distinguish himself, and she could not meet the disappointment."
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

These proud and cutting words had naturally deeply wounded the cardinal, and, for the first time, the doubt was suggested to him whether, in the end, all the communications of the Countess Valois, even the letter of the queen, might not prove to be false, for it appeared to him impossible that the queen could be secretly, favorably inclined to a man whom she openly scorned.
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

That he was instructed to examine into charges made against the governor of —— Jail; but that he had no instructions to make an irregular visit for that purpose.
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

On page 2219, Rerdell says that he was instructed to establish a paper post-office sixty miles north of the route.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Tawyer was an actor who played subordinate parts; at one time he was in the employment of Heminge, one of the chief actors of the Lord Chamberlain’s servants, and more important still, one of the editors of the famous and the most precious books in all literature, the First Folio of Shakespeare’s Works , 1623.
— from Shakespeare and the Stage With a Complete List of Theatrical Terms Used by Shakespeare in His Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, & Explanatory Notes by Maurice Jonas

It never once occurred to me that to have been caught in attempting to escape, or to have succeeded in doing so, would have reacted against me disastrously, to the satisfaction of those who were so anxious that I should afford them some proof by which they might be able to more fully substantiate the charges of supposed disloyalty, that they had whispered into the ear of the Secretary of War.
— from The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Orton Kerbey

Oh! dear!” To repeat the questions and congratulations which now ensued, or describe the extravagant joy of the carpenter, who, after he had hugged his adopted son to his breast with such warmth as almost to squeeze the breath from his body, capered around the room, threw his wig into the empty fire-grate, and committed various other fantastic actions, in order to get rid of his superfluous satisfaction—to describe the scarcely less extravagant raptures of his spouse, or the more subdued, but not less heartfelt delight of Winifred, would be a needless task, as it must occur to every one's imagination.
— from Jack Sheppard: A Romance, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Harrison Ainsworth

James Wyatt undoubtedly imagined that he was improving the English cathedrals when he whitewashed their interiors, added composition pinnacles to the west towers
— from A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington

And now that he was in the enemy's power, he would have no chance to thwart or reveal their schemes!
— from The Cosmic Deflector by Stanton A. (Stanton Arthur) Coblentz