Warr: the Race elect Safe towards Canaan from the shoar advance Through the wilde Desert, not the readiest way, Least entring on the Canaanite allarmd Warr terrifie them inexpert, and feare Return them back to Egypt , choosing rather Inglorious life with servitude; for life To noble and ignoble is more sweet Untraind in Armes, where rashness leads not on.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

When the nuns were present at services where their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

But when they arrived at the place where the river expands, so that where it was widest it extended 200 stades, a strong wind blew from the outer sea, and the oars could hardly be raised in the swell; they therefore took refuge again in a canal into which his pilots conducted them.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

The sight of the pigs turning in disgust from the rotten ears seemed to arouse Boldwood, and he one evening sent for Oak.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The Rev. E. S. Taylor supplies me with the following note from his MS. additions to the work of the East-Anglian lexicographer:— “The allusion is to the way in which a slaughtered pig is hung up, viz., by passing the ends of a bent piece of wood behind the tendons of the hind legs, and so suspending it to a hook in a beam above.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

This timely reminder effectually stopped the conversation.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

tanquam rem exercebam, sed tu serviebas fortunae.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“Haven’t you expected this result ever since the day when, to ensure the success of my plans, you consented to receive the attentions of this marquis, whom you loathe as much as I despise?”
— from Monsieur Lecoq, v. 2 by Emile Gaboriau

But with this exception, I believe it is by far the best plan to begin the Old and New Testaments at the same time,—to read each straight through to the end, and then begin again.
— from Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

The more revengeful faction of the royalists even strove to have all marriages contracted under the act made null and void.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

The restless eyes sought the companionway.
— from The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance

"Won't find me unless you tell them," repeated Eliza slowly, the utmost astonishment in her tone.
— from What Necessity Knows by L. (Lily) Dougall

Ralston moved toward the center of the room, eagerly scanning the tables in search of a blond man with a light mustache, but he saw none to correspond with the cabby's description.
— from Mortmain by Arthur Cheney Train

The recently exalted Sophomore, the dignified Junior, and the venerable Senior, look back with equal humor at the 'greenness' of their first year.
— from A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

Though they have now only such powers of motion as belong to the meanest worm, those skeletons which the rocks entomb show that the serpent tribe had once feet to walk with, and even wings to spurn the ground and cleave the air.
— from The Angels' Song by Thomas Guthrie

Shrunken as was the frame, and emaciated the features, there remained evidence sufficient to show that the now inanimate form was once a fine and handsome man.
— from Anno Domini 2000; or, Woman's Destiny by Vogel, Julius, Sir