Each of the others was similarly equipped.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

[34] OXYPORUM OXYPORUM [Tor. OXYPORUM (WHICH SIGNIFIES “EASY PASSAGE”)
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The hundred basins of gold and gems, presented to Placidia at her nuptial feast, formed an inconsiderable portion of the Gothic treasures; of which some extraordinary specimens may be selected from the history of the successors of Adolphus.
— 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

Shouts from the open window startling evening in the quadrangle.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

This operation was swiftly executed because the fresh ice was still thin.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

If the thing be similar to ourselves, we shall endeavour to affect it pleasurably in preference to anything else (III. xxix.).
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

But, somehow, she failed to make friends among the other women servants, excepting my daughter Penelope, who was always kind to Rosanna, though never intimate with her.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

In the case of Lucy Ferrier the occasion was serious enough in itself, apart from its future influence on her destiny and that of many besides.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

But he was disposed to think otherwise, when she exclaimed:— "They are weaklings—cowards, all of them, the world of rank particularly!
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

Atreus and Thyestes, the sons of Pelops, having been counselled by Hippodamia to kill Page 225 {225} Chrysippus, who was an illegitimate son of Pelops, they refused to obey, which so exasperated her, that she stabbed the child with her own hands.
— from Heathen mythology, Illustrated by extracts from the most celebrated writers, both ancient and modern by Various

The servant who took the order was so expeditious, that, in less than twenty minutes, M. Chapelain arrived.
— from Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau

Their pernicious activities began in 1529, and in the following year their operations were so extensive and persistent as to simulate civil war.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

"Paula," cried the other, with startling earnestness, "I, too, have a heart.
— from Mr. Claghorn's Daughter by Hilary Trent