Its dwelling place is the reef Ketabu, somewhere between Sanaroa and Dobu.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Ug magsígi ning ulána háyan mubahà, If this rain keeps on, it’s likely to flood.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A dreadful peal of thunder broke overhead as he raised the rope again, whilst the rats kept running up and down the rope as though working against time.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

Stanley Hall tried to discover from six year old children whether they really knew the things, the names of which they used freely.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Who is that secret lover, I ask, of whom, at least, most of the relatives know nothing?
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

The year ensuing those Spaniards (who style themselves Christians) came thither to rob, kill and slay, though they pretend they undertook this Voyage to people the Countrey.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

It was an ancient tradition, that when the Capitol was founded by one of the Roman kings, the god Terminus (who presided over boundaries, and was represented, according to the fashion of that age, by a large stone) alone, among all the inferior deities, refused to yield his place to Jupiter himself.
— 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 so he made up his mind to move heaven and earth to return Katerina Ivanovna that three thousand, and that first of all .
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The prudent traders thought it best not to engage actively on behalf of the reigning King, in his present combat with the Norman pretender; a large number of would-be statesmen thought it best for the country to remain for the present neutral.
— from Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The lord mayor is the real king of London, and takes precedence of royalty in all processions in the city, as, for instance, the funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington, after it passed Temple Bar.
— from Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children by Grace Greenwood

'See,' he said, 'he belongs to Red Knife now; he wears Red Knife's mark.
— from The Mark of the Knife by Clayton H. (Clayton Holt) Ernst

But the reader knows how well he succeeded.
— from In the Depths of the Dark Continent; or, The Vengeance of Van Vincent by Cornelius Shea

How did the Ranger know what was going on up at the telephone in the pergola, where British respect for law was at one end of the wire and the handy man of the Valley at the other?
— from The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. Laut

It will be worth while to relate here the pretended crimes charged upon Falanius and Rubrius, two Roman knights of small fortunes; that hence may be seen from what beginnings, and by how much dark art of Tiberius, this grievous mischief crept in; how it was again restrained; how at last it blazed out and consumed all things.
— from The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus

But when he was about to try it on, the raven kept hopping about and would not sit still.
— from The Central Eskimo Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 399-670 by Franz Boas

Of her last Bible-reading the following brief account is prepared from the recollections kindly furnished me by several of the ladies who were present: HER LAST BIBLE-READING.
— from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George Lewis Prentiss