The King of Thunes ran boldly to the formidable beam, and placed his foot upon it: “Here is one!”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

We now tried the forecastle, but equally in vain, and were upon the brink of despair, when Peters proposed that we should fasten a rope to his body, and let him make an attempt to get up something by diving into the cabin.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

But as the time for breakfast is also drawing nigh, you should, worthy brother, go at once."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

"I heard you rustling through the fern before I saw you," he said, coming up and giving her his hand to help her down the slope.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

We have seen that Kant represents the use of legal terms as essential to the subject, and that he keeps to them from beginning to end; let it now be noted how he employs the same style for the following finely devised sophism.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Still this is not laid down as an absolutely uniform law; for, on the contrary, stones baked in glowing fire themselves also glow, and though the fire be rather of a red hue, and they white, yet white is congruous with light, and black with darkness.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Stronger ideas are supposed to raise weaker ones over the threshold of consciousness by fusing with them, the tendency to fuse being proportional to the similarity of the ideas
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The gathering murmur spreads, their trampling feet Beat the loose sands, and thicken to the fleet; With long-resounding cries they urge the train To fit the ships, and launch into the main.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Add a supplementary thread to the first bar, so that you may have 10 threads coming from each side of the second bar and over these you knot the red threads, which form a dark setting to the leaves.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

The fellow answered by a scowl; and then, perhaps fearful that his people should become auditors of the debate he expected to ensue, he commanded them to fall back, and advanced by himself.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“You will excuse me, I trust, Mr. Woodward,” said he, “I was down in the dining-room receiving rents for———.” He paused, for, on reflection, he felt that this was a disagreeable topic to allude to; the fact being that he acted as his daughter's agent, and I had been on that and the preceding day receiving her rents.
— from The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

No man can come to the Father but by the Son, therefore, if you have his friendship, you have done the business, for he and his Father are one.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

These two factions became bitterly hostile to each other; and on the day before the 4th of July came in collision, but finally separated without doing much damage.
— from The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 by Joel Tyler Headley

News of the occupation of the three fortresses by the French troops, was announced in Paris on the 23d of September 1800, where the fresh hopes of peace caused universal satisfaction.
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

You might say they have got “that tired feeling” bad, and so they have.
— from In the Firing Line: Stories of the War by Land and Sea by Arthur St. John Adcock

Later, the chiefs sat down to the funeral banquet, and finally retired to rest.
— from The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) by Thomas Bulfinch