She had made up her mind that I was to remain always in the town, even after my imprisonment was over; and I fancy had resolved to marry me though I had never so much as hinted at her doing so.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

It is true that there is now a movement amongst the more enlightened Jews to recognize Jesus as a great teacher; so far, unfortunately, this is met by bitter hostility from the rest, and in the current Jewish press contemptuous and even blasphemous references to Christ and the Christian faith frequently occur.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

The old Louvre of Philip Augustus, that immense edifice whose great tower rallied about it three and twenty chief towers, not to reckon the lesser towers, seemed from a distance to be enshrined in the Gothic roofs of the Hôtel d’Alençon, and the Petit-Bourbon.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Its base is the coast opposite to us, extending from Egypt and the Nile to Mauretania and the Pillars; at right angles to this is a side formed by the Nile to Ethiopia, which side we continue to the ocean; the hypothenuse of the right angle is the whole tract of sea-coast lying between Ethiopia and Mauretania.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Not merely that each part stands in a necessary relation to what immediately precedes it, and only presupposes a recollection of that by the reader, as is the case with all philosophies which consist merely of a series of inferences, but that every part of the whole work is related to every other part and presupposes it.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Twenty Sioux had fallen mortally wounded to the ground, and the wheels crushed those who fell upon the rails as if they had been worms.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Put a 1 on all the towns in the top row and in the first column.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

A chain of posts and fortifications, skilfully disposed by Valens, or the generals of Valens, resisted their march, prevented their retreat, and intercepted their subsistence.
— 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

But yet the thought lay deep in his soul to recover again, if there should be any opportunity for him, his kingdom in Norway.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Before they parted on their several errands, they caused him to read aloud, in the presence of them all, the paper which he had about him, and the declaration he had attached to it, which was to the effect that he had written it voluntarily, in the fear of death and in the torture of his mind.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

We have to go forward to the era of working together as a community, as a team, as one America, with all of us reaching across these lines that divide us--the division, the discrimination, the rancor--we have to reach across it to find common ground.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Before him was a fringe of thick underbrush along the river, and into this he forced his unwilling horse.
— from An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by Buffalo Bill

“But,” said Thuillier, rather astonished, “I thought that friendship was a good exchange for such services.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The Ratcliffes are itching to be at thee, and——" "I'll go no further," he answered over his shoulder; "and as for the Ratcliffes—they know how many Waynes are sheltered by Hill House; 'tis no likely hunting-ground for them."
— from Shameless Wayne: A Romance of the last Feud of Wayne and Ratcliffe by Halliwell Sutcliffe

The infantry advance up the river as if to deliver a frontal attack; but meanwhile the mounted troops, which have started during the night, are to make a wide detour to the right and get round at the back of the Boer position, so as to hem them in.
— from With Rimington by L. March (Lisle March) Phillipps

When about eleven years of age, he was placed under the tuition of Geminiani, who was then recently arrived in this country; and, thus tutored, he was enabled fully to confirm the promise which his first attempts had exhibited.
— from The Violin Some Account of That Leading Instrument and Its Most Eminent Professors, from Its Earliest Date to the Present Time; with Hints to Amateurs, Anecdotes, etc. by George Dubourg

Our most skillful performer with the knife and fork caused them to stand on tiptoe with wonder, in view of their rapid alternations in the transfer of food to his mouth, although himself unmindful of special notice.
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile

(2) The apparently unthinking and apathetic class who prefer to relegate all initiative to leaders whom they will loyally follow.
— from Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold