When he did move it was done very deliberately, and on arriving at Gravelly Run he found the stream swollen from the recent rains so that he regarded it as not fordable.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill, Which then seems as if the whole earth it bounded, Circling all nature, hush'd, and dim, and still, With the far mountain-crescent half surrounded On one side, and the deep sea calm and chill Upon the other, and the rosy sky, With one star sparkling through it like an eye.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The two remaining regiments shall be billeted in the town or encamped upon the Common.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our English property, as I have said, was equally hampered; and, as often as I applied to my lawyers and agents for money, would come a reply demanding money of me, for debts and pretended claims which the rapacious rascals said they had on me.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

On the second day the road rose steeply to a grass spur above the forest; and it was here, about sunset, that they came across an aged lama—but they called him a bonze—sitting cross-legged above a mysterious chart held down by stones, which he was explaining to a young man, evidently a neophyte, of singular, though unwashen, beauty.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

In a very short time every armed man from one end of Patusan to the other was on the alert, yet the banks of the river remained so silent that but for the fires burning with sudden blurred flares the town might have been asleep as if in peace-time.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

On her ensnared in Káma's net His eyes the royal Ráma set, [pg 251]
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

I spent before the doctor could quite get his prick to standing point, but the copious torrent I poured into his mouth, and his after-suction on my prick, in addition to the red raw state of his buttocks, at last brought him up to full stand.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

I cannot here give references and authorities for my several statements; and I must trust to the reader reposing some confidence in my accuracy.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

[Pg 16] is the cathedral built by his descendants, and adorned with noble archways in the rich Romanesque style of native Irish architecture.
— from Munster by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

"Resolved, That Lieutenant-General John Clavering has thereby relinquished, resigned, surrendered, and vacated his place of Commander-in-Chief of the Company's forces in India.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

I found Giraud in the reception room, staring in dismay at his two lamps, which were on the point of going out.
— from Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) by Paul de Kock

The reception rooms slowly emptied: the guests crowded on to the verandah and into the smoking-room.
— from Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre

She looked upon her aunts and indeed all that world that had surrounded the Chapel as something infinitely childish, and for that reason rather sweet and touching.
— from The Captives by Hugh Walpole

Prof. Huxley does, indeed, remind me that recent researches show increasingly the influence of the cerebro-spinal nervous system over the processes of organic life; against which, however, has to be set the growing evidence of the power exercised by the visceral nervous system over the cerebro-spinal.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

By a secret article of the agreement with France James promised to grant even greater freedom to Catholics than had been promised them in his dealings with the Spanish court, and as a pledge of his good faith he released many prisoners who had been convicted on account of their religion, returned some of the fines that had been levied, and gave a hint to those charged with the administration of the law that the penal enactments should not be enforced.
— from History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey

Again: and now I let the reflectors remain stationary, first, for a minute, then twice for fifteen seconds each.
— from Stories by American Authors, Volume 9 by Various