The gods, defenders of the innocent. Will never prosper your intended drifts, That thus oppress poor friendless passengers.
— from Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

There were signs there of preparations for a journey.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

She lay on one of the hard pink-sprigged couches and watched the other passengers, friendly and natural, pinning their hats to the bolsters, taking off their boots and skirts, opening dressing-cases and arranging mysterious rustling little packages, tying their heads up in veils before lying down.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

The only point for a regulation for the formation for battle is to forbid the use of very deep columns, because they are heavy, and difficult to move and to keep in order.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

A tug ran to take off passengers from the steamer to the wharf,—for the trade of Los Angeles is sufficient to support such a vessel.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

I have said that the one person from whom we had had some sign of sympathy in our attempts to get away was the young chief whom we had rescued.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

But this contradiction, which is in itself merely subjective (i.e. an incapacity in the nature of man), too often passes for an incongruity or impossibility in the object (i.e. the notions themselves), and seduces the incautious to mistake the limitations of the human faculties for the limits of things, as they really exist.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Now, the retina cannot be pushed nearer to or pulled further away from its lens, like the focussing screen of a camera.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

Forsaking the true religion, he gave himself up completely to idolatry, and plundered the temple to obtain presents for Tiglath-Pileser, King of Assyria.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

A gentleman never dodges; his eyes look straight forward, and he assures the other party, first of all, that he has been met.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

How should the ruler over a million souls find time or patience for her a
— from Serapis — Volume 03 by Georg Ebers

I had been in love with you three weeks—three centuries it seemed—before I could screw up my courage so far as to think of proposing for you.
— from All along the River: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

But this only proved fresh fuel for the fire of Van's indignation.
— from Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

He was employed to distribute to his brethren what was given to them in alms, and he took willingly the trouble of procuring for them what was wanted.
— from The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Candide Chalippe

They seemed to keep on tramping and even running around, and there was no sound of voices now—only a most peculiar sound that made her think of Papa Fregeau when he stood in the kitchen of the Bas Rhône and sharpened his carving knife on his long bone-handled steel.
— from The Belovéd Traitor by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

for a woman cannot be kept in due subjection, either by gifts or kindness, or correct conduct, or the greatest services, or the laws of morality, or by the terror of punishment, for she cannot discriminate between good and evil.’
— from Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

(* On the reduction of all forms of gastrulation to the original palingenetic form see especially the lucid treatment of the subject in Arnold Lang's Manual of Comparative Anatomy (1888), Part 1.)
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Haeckel

They came to the door, and the officer pushed forward, club raised grimly over his right shoulder as he laid his left hand on the knob.
— from In and Out by Edgar Franklin

screamed Dick ” 46 “ From the oak panel fluttered a scrap of paper ” 137 “ Ned brought him down with a hard diving tackle ” 231 1 CHAPTER I FRIENDS—NEW AND OLD
— from Copper Coleson's Ghost by Edward P. Hendrick

Previous to 1896 each of the great political parties made quadrennial expressions of faith in the bimetallic theory, frequently demanded its enactment into law, and generally condemned the opposing party for “hostility to silver.”
— from William Jennings Bryan: A Concise But Complete Story of His Life and Services by Harvey Ellsworth Newbranch