But no sooner did she recollect where they were than the bride peeped through the interstices of the leafy curtain and saw that the outer room of the hut was deserted.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The obstinate resistance of this handful of Franks apprised Julian of the difficulties of the expedition which he meditated for the ensuing spring, against the whole body of the nation.
— 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

For it is well known that the population of Europe consists of Asiatic races who, driven out from their own country, wandered away, and by degrees hit upon Europe: on their long wanderings they lost the original religion of their homes, and with it the correct view of life; and this is why they formed in another climate religions for themselves which were somewhat crude; especially the worship of Odin, the Druidic and the Greek religions, the metaphysical contents of which were small and shallow.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

A rapacious minister of the finances closely pursued the footsteps of Belisarius; and as the old registers of tribute had been burnt by the Vandals, he indulged his fancy in a liberal calculation and arbitrary assessment of the wealth of Africa.
— 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

And now, Mr. Lightning-rod-man, in the pauses of the thunder, be so good as to tell me your reasons for esteeming this one room of the house the safest, and your own one stand-point there the safest spot in it."
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

The authors of our age who have so admirably delineated the features of Faust, Childe Harold, Rene, and Jocelyn, did not seek to record the actions of an individual, but to enlarge and to throw light on some of the obscurer recesses of the human heart.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Give the Philippine people the independence they of right ought to have, instead of secretly hoping to unload them on somebody else, through the medium of your next great war.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

But just as in 1820 and in 1850, again there sprung up a wide and deep hostility to any extension of slavery, and now the old restraints on that hostility were gone, and its sources were newly filled.
— from The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam

Two doors led to the other rooms of the house, one of them wide open.
— from A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham

When we came to the top of the outer range of the hills we had a glorious view.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

These officers received orders to hang on the rear of the enemy, to harass him, and to do him all possible damage consistent with the possibility of avoiding a general engagement, until the main army under Parma and Don John should arrive.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

These are now the only remains of the highway by which the 'deep-laden argosies' used to enter in the days of old.
— from Belgium by George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond

The official robes of the high priest consisted of eight [192] pieces, four of which, the coat, the girdle, the turban (or "mitre"), and the breeches, were, with the exception of the turban, of white linen, and identical in every respect with the official dress of the ordinary priests.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus by Samuel H. (Samuel Henry) Kellogg

In some of the villages it is no uncommon thing to find nine or ten persons living in the one room of the house with the various domestic animals.
— from The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

[80] While in the past the legal wrongs of woman in the marriage relation, in which she is robbed of name, personality, earnings, children, had a tendency to drive her to live with man outside of the authority of church or state, the occupations recently opened to her whereby she can gain a reputable livelihood by her own exertions, has greatly increased the ranks of single women.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

“I was sitting,” she writes, “at the door of the one room of the hut when the policeman appeared, accompanied by an old soldier in a dirty grey greatcoat, and followed by two peasants....
— from Mysteries of Police and Crime, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Arthur Griffiths

A gallant figure he cut, too, as he stood there, caressing his [Pg 7] Kaiser-fashioned moustaches with one hand while the other rested on the hilt of his sword.
— from The Day of Wrath: A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy