On this sharp ridge delinquents were mounted, with their hands tied behind them; and to steady them (as it was said), and lest the horse should kick them off, one or more firelocks were tied to each leg.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

That he regularly and systematically beat his wife in the English manner, and that she repeatedly deceived him.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

She poured out as much as they wanted until the spring ran dry.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

To this she replies: "Dear child, I'm sorry I can not help you, but pity a poor married woman and forgive.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Hence, we see why all the species in the same region do at last, if we look to long enough intervals of time, become modified; for otherwise they would become extinct.
— 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

DON JUAN: ¿Qué te amedrenta, Does it cause you to fear, si a tus ojos se presenta that some rich Don Juan Tenorio muy rico don Juan Tenorio. presents himself to your eyes here?
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Such being the reasons which make it imperative that human beings should be free to form opinions, and to express their opinions without reserve; and such the baneful consequences to the intellectual, and through that to the moral nature of man, unless this liberty is either conceded, or asserted in spite of prohibition; let us next examine whether the same reasons do not require that men should be free to act upon their opinions—to carry these out in their lives, without hindrance, either physical or moral, from their fellow-men, so long as it is at their own risk and peril.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

It sings first of the winged seed; and then of the birth of the tiny tree; of sunrise and sunset, and the tranquil warmth of noon-day, and of the soft, refreshing rain, and the kindly, nourishing earth, and of the white moonlight, and pale, moist garments of the mist, all helping the tree to grow up tall and straight, to strike root deep and spread wide its green branches.
— from Little Peter: A Christmas Morality for Children of any Age by Lucas Malet

Andrew proposed that they should ride down it as far as they could go, and then throwing themselves from their horses, endeavour to make their way through the wood till they could find some place of concealment.
— from Roger Willoughby: A Story of the Times of Benbow by William Henry Giles Kingston

They went, like two scared rabbits down the smooth, yellow stretch of packed sand.
— from Cow-Country by B. M. Bower

"I wish this statue removed; do you hear, Monsieur Fontaine?
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

According to my friend the scientist, a few people outside the laboratory where the "rock hounds" worked were told about the activities of the "mineral club," and they started radiation- detection groups of their own.
— from The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

"In the second room, devoted to painting and also to study, six masterpieces by the greatest painters of the time adorned the walls above the panelling.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh