Not to protract this portion of our narrative, and to make short work of a long story, let it be briefly written that before the interview came to a close, the single gentleman deemed he had sufficient evidence of having been told the truth, and that he endeavoured to force upon the bride and bridegroom an acknowledgment of their kindness to the unfriended child, which, however, they steadily declined accepting.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

This is called the absolute construction.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

This is called the absolute construction .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

At little informal dinners all dishes of food after being passed are left on the serving table in case they are called upon for a second helping.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

—With this I come to a conclusion and pronounce my judgment.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I do not like it myself, for Teiresias bade me travel far and wide, carrying an oar, till I came to a country where the people have never heard of the sea, and do not even mix salt with their food.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

If Catholic proselystism succeeded in completely detaching a few individuals or a few families from the Israelitish creed, these ardent converts rekindled the horror of the people against their former co-religionists by revealing some of the precepts of the Talmud.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

The son answered, "When the great blast of wind tore me away from thee I came to a church, and there during the summer I have picked up the flies and spiders from the windows, and heard this discourse preached.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies, when heated beyond a certain degree, emit Light so copiously, as by the Emission and Re-action of its Light, and the Reflexions and Refractions of its Rays within its Pores to grow still hotter, till it comes to a certain period of heat, such as is that of the Sun?
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Now Philo and his followers say 235 that as far as the Stoic criterion is concerned, that is to say the φαντασία καταληπτική, things are incomprehensible, but as far as the nature of things is concerned, they are comprehensible.
— from Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick

I knew not that I had succeeded till I came to a close, and then my eyes resting on the face of the grand prima donna, I was seized with an indescribable sadness, with a keen pang of remorse.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I went on till I came to a collection of houses which an old woman, with a cracked voice and a small tin milk-pail, whom I assisted in getting over a stile into the road, told me was called Pen Strit—probably the head of the street.
— from Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery by George Borrow

If, in the situation in which we were on the day when we first came in sight of the ramparts of Acre; we had made a less inconsiderate estimate of the strength of the place; if we had likewise taken into consideration the active co-operation of the English and the Ottoman Porte, our absolute want of artillery of sufficient calibre, our scarcity of gunpowder and the difficulty of procuring food, we certainly should not have undertaken the siege; and that would have been by far the wisest course.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 03 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

It ran on and on for several days, and then it came to another city even handsomer than that of the king, but when it entered the streets everything was silent and [93] deserted.
— from Fairy Tales from Many Lands by Katharine Pyle

At first his attentions are somewhat annoying, and there is a general disposition to conceal acquaintance with him; but when every man, woman, and child in a company is constantly scratching, it becomes difficult to ignore conditions that are common and conspicuous, and everybody admits, first with blushes and then with brazen shamelessness, that he’s got ’em.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

I have been here for two weeks wandering about the grounds; I must tear myself away to-morrow and my great grief is, that I know that I cannot take and carry with me a perfect image—of that —and so I may have to return again."
— from Round the World by Andrew Carnegie

Owing to the large field that is covered, the author can scarcely hope to have escaped errors of detail.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

As to its contents, the Apostles' Creed is a positive statement of the essential facts of Christianity.
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Great care was taken in choosing these, and Clarendon assures us that it would have been impossible to get fitter men.
— from Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690 by Richard Bagwell