The wind seemed to come with a spite, an edge to it, which threatened to scrape us off the yards.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

On the way to the station, we stopped for my cousin, Jotin Ghosh, whom I called Jatinda.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Theodemir and his subjects were treated with uncommon lenity; but the rate of tribute appears to have fluctuated from a tenth to a fifth, according to the submission or obstinacy of the Christians.
— 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

The cost of maintaining roads is lessened, as the continual breaking-up for laying and repairing of water, gas, and electric mains is avoided, while any waste from leaky pipes is quickly detected, and thus the subways pay .
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

But let both persevere and at the end of five, ten, or twenty years it will be found that they succeeded almost in exact proportion to their skill and industry.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

After this, there was a good deal of dodging about, and hitching up of the inexpressibles in the absence of braces, and then the short sailor (who was the moral character evidently, for he always had the best of it) made a violent demonstration and closed with the tall sailor, who, after a few unavailing struggles, went down, and expired in great torture as the short sailor put his foot upon his breast, and bored a hole in him through and through.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

H2 anchor CHAPTER IV Tom Bertram had of late spent so little of his time at home that he could be only nominally missed; and Lady Bertram was soon astonished to find how very well they did even without his father, how well Edmund could supply his place in carving, talking to the steward, writing to the attorney, settling with the servants, and equally saving her from all possible fatigue or exertion in every particular but that of directing her letters.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

But after the death of Ethelbert, the accession of his son Eadbald proved very harmful to the still tender growth of the new Church; for he not only refused to accept the faith of Christ, but was also defiled with such fornication, as the Apostle testifies, as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

And yellow apples ripen into gold; The fruit he strives to seize; but blasts arise, Toss it on high, and whirl it to the skies.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

At midnight I went with her to the station.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Indeed, I believe my only religion is, that the life be right and then the soul cannot be false.
— from By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel by Laura G. Case Collins

The French consented to give up the demand for Harfleur; but they required that Talbot should remain as a hostage until the conditions were fulfilled.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by François Guizot

6:8 He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse, 6:9 but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

Then he stood for a moment, lower down, to watch the great limbs and roots of a huge beech that seemed to cling to the slope for fear of slipping downwards.
— from Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset by Arthur Christopher Benson

The old musket often hung fire from five to ten seconds, and the premonitory flash could be seen as the shaky flint clattered down on the pan.
— from Buffalo Land Authentic Account of the Discoveries, Adventures, and Mishaps of a Scientific and Sporting Party in the Wild West by W. E. (William Edward) Webb

It has been stated above that the surfaces of the two stones are in contact.
— from The Story of a Loaf of Bread by T. B. (Thomas Barlow) Wood

The Commissioner was a lawyer, not a cop, so he wasn't as tied to the system as Kleek and the others were.
— from Nor Iron Bars a Cage.... by Randall Garrett

The first step to advance the aboriginal man to his natural and just political rights, namely, the acknowledgment of his right to the soil , we have mentioned; but those that were to succeed it were more difficult and complex in their bearings.
— from The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America From Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft