Major Tweedy, moustached like Turko the terrible, in bearskin cap with hackleplume and accoutrements, with epaulettes, gilt chevrons and sabretaches, his breast bright with medals, toes the line.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

I should not, of course, deny—unless I were a fool—that many actions which are called immoral should be avoided and resisted; and in the same way that many which are called moral should be performed and encouraged; but I hold that in both cases these actions should be performed from motives other than those which have prevailed up to the present time.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And there came such a violent wind that it blew Conrad's hat far away across country, and he was forced to run after it.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The word 'natural' means effected by heaven itself and not made by human labour." "Well, just so," rejoined Pao-yü; "but the farm, which is laid out in this locality, is distinctly the handiwork of human labour; in the distance, there are no neighbouring hamlets; near it, adjoin no wastes; though it bears a hill, the hill is destitute of streaks; though it be close to water, this water has no spring; above, there is no pagoda nestling in a temple; below, there is no bridge leading to a market; it rises abrupt and solitary, and presents no grand sight!
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

“Why am I so uneasy at having put in that ‘ I believe ’?” came in a second flash.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One may sometimes conjecture from analogy what will follow; but still this is but conjecture.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Therefore I threw up my open hands with extended fingers above my head; and as soon as I had done this, I became conscious of the action.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

At present, a large part of the vacant Western territory is, by cession at least, if not by any anterior right, the common property of the Union.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

A narrow tongue of shale, on so steep a slope that it barely clung to the mountain, ran twenty feet to a precipice.
— from The Killer by Stewart Edward White

His command was led by Captain Winder and the Indians by Chief Camiachan.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

Upon the black tops of the tents may frequently be seen large white masses of sour curd, expressed from buttermilk, and set to dry as future store; this, broken down and mixed with water, forms a very pleasant acidulous drink, and is used as the basis of that intoxicating beverage called kimmiz .
— from Odd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man by Mayne Reid

Sometimes I put my legs up over them, and thus I both changed my position and floated very comfortably.
— from The Three Midshipmen by William Henry Giles Kingston

In a few moments we shall be at the threshold of the incomparable Beehive Chamber, and thence, to a point far beyond what we can attain to-day, the poetry and witchery of cave scenery are at their finest.
— from The Netherworld of Mendip Explorations in the great caverns of Somerset, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and elsewhere by Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Baker

He had not got further than Miss Austen and he was taken in by Chesterton.
— from Overlooked by Maurice Baring

Here and there a tiny light glowed brightly--ever and anon in some dark corner the slight snap of a match was heard and directly after a column or the image of some saint emerged from the wavering shadows, now fainter, now more distinct, according as the light flashed up and down, till it burned clearly.
— from On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern

The hunters landed, and calling out to the Chipewyans in their own tongue, assured them that the party was a friendly one, and after some difficulty the Indians became convinced that there was no danger.
— from Trails of the Pathfinders by George Bird Grinnell

There is Black Connal, the twin-brother—oh, mercy!—against us still.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth