In those days Franklin personally visited a church at Streatham, whose steeple had been struck by lightning, and, after observing the region, gave an opinion that if the steeple were again erected without a lightning-rod, it would again be struck.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Busbúsi ang sáku, gilit ang ibusbus, Slit the sack with a blade.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The suspense was agonizing, and Tom knew that he was sure on such occasions to make an example of the School-house boys.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

" "We shall never agree upon this question," Captain Harville was beginning to say, when a slight noise called their attention to Captain Wentworth's hitherto perfectly quiet division of the room.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

The grain, which, as it were, remains dead for a time in the dark earth, only Page 57 [57] to rise one day dressed in a newer and lovelier garb, was supposed to symbolize the soul, which, after death, frees itself from corruption, to live again under a better and purer form.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

The mother's face was dark and still, and he saw, with a pang, that she was away back in the life that had been.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Then she set to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high; then she walked down the little passage; and then —she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

A messenger was despatched to Solyman, with a letter announcing my arrival.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

The school waited, all ears.
— from Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The Revelator says: "And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor and glory, and blessing.
— from The Harp of God: Proof Conclusive That Millions Now Living Will Never Die by J. F. (Joseph Franklin) Rutherford

The scene was about to change; hope, ambition, joy, grief, and all those feelings which variously affected the hearts of the courtiers, sought in vain to disguise themselves under a calm exterior.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 2 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

Cleanse the dish, and treat in the same way a few drops NaOH solution, recording the result.
— from An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus P. (Rufus Phillips) Williams

As it quitted the shore, the warrior sprang lightly in, taking his station at the stern; and while his tall and remarkable figure bent nimbly to the movement, he dashed his paddle from right to left alternately in the stream, with a quickness that rendered it almost invisible to the eye.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3 by Major (John) Richardson

"Clear the station," was all he said.
— from A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike by Charles King

Thus situated, we are but ill qualified as yet to speak of the agriculture of the country, or the condition of the peasantry.
— from The Mission to Siam, and Hué, the Capital of Cochin China, in the Years 1821-2 by George Finlayson

" Mr. Davis's amendment was rejected by a vote of 5 yeas to 32 nays; when he immediately moved to amend, by adding precisely the same words at the end of Section 1 of the proposed Article.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Certain it is that the praise of Pope by Addison in number 253 of the Spectator is qualified (though by no means unjustly), and that he is not spoken of with the same warmth as Tickell and Ambrose Philips in number 523.
— from Addison by William John Courthope