I returned to the church, and walked round it till I came to the back of the building; then crossed the boundary wall beyond, by another of the stone stiles, and found myself at the head of a path leading down into a deserted stone quarry.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The foremost in this painful ascent could grasp and climb the lowest part of the battlements; they silently stabbed and cast down the sentinels; and the thirty brethren, repeating a pious ejaculation, "O apostle of God, help and deliver us!"
— 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

“Ay, ay—construe us the story,” said a burly Friar, who stood beside them, leaning on a pole that exhibited an appearance between a pilgrim's staff and a quarter-staff, and probably acted as either when occasion served,—“Your story,” said the stalwart churchman; “burn not daylight about it—we have short time to spare.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

You must be careful to make the same number of stitches in all the spaces that are of the same size, and also, when you begin a row with a whole stitch, to begin the return row with a half, and so on, in regular rotation.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

After the Indus has been filled by all these rivers, so as to be enlarged in some places to the extent of a hundred stadia, according to writers who exaggerate, or, according to a more moderate estimate, to fifty stadia at the utmost, and at the least to seven, [and who speak of many nations and cities about this river,] 370 it discharges itself by two mouths into the southern sea, and forms the island called Patalene.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

But her magnificent, abundant dark brown hair, her sable-colored eyebrows [pg 162] and charming gray-blue eyes with their long lashes would have made the most indifferent person, meeting her casually in a crowd in the street, stop at the sight of her face and remember it long after.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The throne of Chitor,” was the honest reply; and to set suspicion at rest, he desired that the ceremony of installation should be performed previous to Lakha’s departure.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

But they sailed serenely away and paid no further heed to pilgrims who had dreamed all their lives of some day skimming over the sacred waters of Galilee and listening to its hallowed story in the whisperings of its waves, and had journeyed countless leagues to do it, and—and then concluded that the fare was too high.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

During which time the shippes lay all a hull; but this worke ended, they set sayle, and directed their course for the iles of Pearles.
— from The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt, in his Voyage into the South Sea in the Year 1593 Reprinted from the Edition of 1622 by Hawkins, Richard, Sir

MATELDA AND THE CLOISTER OF HELLFDE EXTRACTS FROM THE BOOK OF MATILDA OF MAGDEBURG SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY FRANCES BEVAN AUTHOR OF “THREE FRIENDS OF GOD,” “TREES PLANTED BY THE RIVER,” “HYMNS OF TER STEEGEN, SUSO, AND OTHERS,” ETC.
— from Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg by of Magdeburg Mechthild

He walked out a little way and noticed the rank weeds growing in patches in the corners; decay and neglect left everywhere their dismal signs; the yard, in spite of the sunlight, seemed as gloomy and cheerless as the house itself.
— from Jimbo: A Fantasy by Algernon Blackwood

If you laugh at me for this long lecture, perhaps you may be quite right; but certainly not so if you are displeased, or bear me a grudge for it; {101} though indeed it is very stupid in me even to suggest such a possibility.
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Be sure that the tubes to be welded are cut off clean and are as nearly as may be of the same size at the point of junction.
— from On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

In similar way, if the experiences in the Sunday school and the church continuously yield satisfaction, enjoyment, and good feeling, the child's loyalty and devotion are assured; if, on the other hand, these experiences come to be associated with dislike, reluctance, and aversion, loyalty is in danger of breaking under the strain.
— from How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods by George Herbert Betts

[64] that he also obtained specimens of this very common English butterfly during the same season and in the same locality as Vanessa atalanta .
— from New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (Macro-Lepidoptera) by G. V. (George Vernon) Hudson

On the 14th of September the sailors saw a swallow and some tropic-birds.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. The Exploration of the World by Jules Verne

Those on the south side are, Sir Heneage Finch, Sir Orlando Bridgeman, Sir Matthew Hale, Sir Richard Rainsford, Sir Edward Turner, Sir Thomas Tyrrel, Sir John Archer, Sir William Morton.
— from London in 1731 by Gonzales, Manoel, Don

Reason and power are now on the same side; and we have little doubt that they will conjointly achieve a decisive victory.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron