After half an hour's grace, Mr Wegg proceeded to the outer gate, and there executed a whistle, conveying to Mr Venus, if perchance within hearing, the tidings of his being at home and disengaged.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

‘ How do you do?’ said the other gentleman, altering the emphasis, as if to give variety to the salutation.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

"I mean the one growing at the edge of a depression, where a brick kiln used to stand?
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

As [Pg 18] we had only escaped with our lives among these rocks, none other choice was left us than to continue our road over them to Trinidad, which lay along the coast through a barren country full of rugged rocks, where our feet soon became blistered and wounded; as to think of getting anything to eat was quite out of the question; while we had continually to struggle with a terrific gale of wind and the sea breaking over the rocks.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Several times the blacks were so completely hidden from view by the smoke of their own guns and the enemy’s heavy cannon, that they could not be seen.
— from The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and His Fidelity by William Wells Brown

"But granting this to be true," say the partizans of the existing order, "we cannot dispense with the supremacy of the State until all men are Christians, because even among those who claim the title there are many who are very far from being Christians—evil-doers, who seek their own gratification at the expense of their fellow-men, and if the governments were overthrown, so far from improving the condition of the people, it would greatly add to their miseries.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

These western communities reverted to the compact theory of government, and their experiences illustrate the democratic tendencies of the frontier.
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

The order gives authority to establish his headquarters wherever, in his judgment, will best secure facilities for ready communication with the troops of his command; and provides that he "will repair to any part of said command whenever his presence may for the time be necessary or desirable."
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

Subsequently three other gentlemen addressed the Editor of the Times , one under the signature of S. H. S., the other a Christian clergyman and a native of Syria, the Rev. Dr Anton Tien, K. C. M., Cumberland Terrace, Gravesend; and the third, also a native of Syria, Mr Selim Bustros, a Christian merchant, residing at Liverpool.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 2 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

He insisted that well-being is the only good, and that every human being is under obligation, not only to take care of himself, but to do what little he can towards taking care of others; that where five hundred people neglect to take care of themselves, it is the duty of somebody else, who has more intelligence and more means, to take care of them; that the man who takes five hundred people and improves their condition, gives them on the average better food, better clothes, and keeps them out of mischief, is a benefactor.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll

As in the myth preserved by Aristophanes in the ‘Birds,’ the Australians believe that birds were the original gods, and the eagle, especially, is a great creative power.
— from Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang

We were told on good authority that each burgher had but six rounds, and that the field-guns were without any shells at all.
— from South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time by Wilson, Sarah Isabella Augusta, Lady

Garnett has shown 5 that Lumsden ignored the 1867 text of Grein and the editions of Heyne.
— from The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker