Here was a rare interview; I shall try to record it verbatim .
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

How deluges of frantic Sansculottism roared through all passages of this Tuileries, ruthless in vengeance, how the Valets were butchered, hewn down; and Dame Campan saw the Marseilles sabre flash over her head, but the Blackbrowed said, "Va-t-en, Get thee gone," and flung her from him unstruck: ( Campan, ii. c. 21. )
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

For these buildings our men hauled the clay, made the tiles, brought wood from a distance of three to four miles, and carried fresh water from a distance of about two miles; for although the Koschka is situated at the mouth of the Okhota, the water in the river is very salty on account of the tide-water.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Doña Inés falls on a bed of flowers that remain in view, instead of her tomb which disappears.)
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

The poor king, too ill to rise, in vain implored those around him to move his chair, no one dared touch it, and when the grand chamberlain arrived, the king had fainted with the heat, and a few days later he died, literally roasted to death.”
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

From among all these parties, just at the time Prince Andrew reached the army, another, a ninth party, was being formed and was beginning to raise its voice.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

If you do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

We learn to read , in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of Books.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

in which Case we would bring back our baggage and attempt a passage over the Mountains through the Country of the Shoshones further to the South, by way of the main S Westerly fork of Lewis's river and Madisons or Gallitins river's, where from the information of the Chopunnish, there is a passage where at this season of the year is not obstructed by snow, though the round is very distant and would require at least a month in it's preformance.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Their perception seems to be so keen that frequently they see more than really is visible.
— from Corea or Cho-sen: The Land of the Morning Calm by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Ug-ug kaáyu ang dálan, The road is very bumpy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When the young are strong enough to perch it is not uncommon for them to sit motionless beside the father and mother for hours, remaining so perfectly quiet and silent as to render it very difficult to discover their place of concealment.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm