The game is going to be decided on the King's side, and it is the isolated double Pawn that will supply the finishing touch.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

They next rushed furiously forward and attacked us man to man: some with their lances, others with their swords and arrows, and all this with such terrible fury that we were compelled also to show them earnest.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

As with all riverside places, only the tiniest corner of it comes down to the water, so that from the boat you might fancy it was a village of some half-dozen houses, all told.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

certain it is that those large pine trees never grew in that position, nor can I account for this phenomenon except it be that the passage of the river through the narrow pass at the rapids has been obstructed by the rocks which have fallen from the hills into that channel within the last 20 years; the appearance of the hills at that place justify this opinion, they appear constantly to be falling in, and the apparent state of the decayed trees would seem to fix the era of their decline about the time men-tioned.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

] that was said to fire the City, and was hanged for it, by his own confession, that he was hired for it by a Frenchman of Roane, and that he did with a stick reach in a fire-ball in at a window of the house: whereas the master of the house, who is the King’s baker, and his son, and daughter, do all swear there was no such window, and that the fire did not begin thereabouts.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“Aye, aye, sir!” answered two or three; and a rush was made upon the Admiral Benbow, the lantern-bearer following; and then I could see them pause, and hear speeches passed in a lower key, as if they were surprised to find the door open.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

This further task again, to dress the vine, Hath needs beyond exhausting; the whole soil Thrice, four times, yearly must be cleft, the sod With hoes reversed be crushed continually, The whole plantation lightened of its leaves.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

There was still time, for the third attack of the malignant fever had not yet shown itself.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Quoth Talano, 'I knew thou wouldst say thus; for that such thanks still hath he who combeth a scald-head; but, believe as thou listeth, I for my part tell it to thee for good, and once more I counsel thee abide at home to-day or at least beware of going into our wood.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

They lie and lounge there, we say, these fierce Troopers; from Montmedi and Stenai, through Clermont, Sainte-Menehould to utmost Pont-de-Sommevelle, in all Post-villages; for the route shall avoid Verdun and great Towns: they loiter impatient 'till the Treasure arrive.'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

They were protected by a glass screen, but the waterspouts seemed to find them out, and Mrs. James and Barrie were so sorry for the two men that I felt a "luxurious slave" to cringe in shelter while others soaked.
— from The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

The high mountains, the deep valleys, the broad plains and the wide seas; the feelings, the desires, and the passions of man; all forms of life and being that exist upon the earth, were to him but several manifestations of a great creative power that formed them all alike, made each one needful to the whole, and every portion sacred through its Master’s stamp.
— from A Persian Pearl, and Other Essays by Clarence Darrow

In this way Chicago is teaching its alien population American ideas, and it is fair to presume that the rising generation will have some notion of the nature and value of our institutions that will save them from the inclination to destroy them.
— from Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada by Charles Dudley Warner

The boiled Tucunarés were soon taken from the kettles and set before us.
— from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates

None ventured more than knee-deep; some crawled and wallowed in the wet sand, too fearful to trust their lives to so big a thing which showed itself to be alive by breathing and moving.
— from Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

The words seemed to fill the room with an emotion which Katharine connected with the sound of distant wheels, the footsteps hurrying along the pavement, the cries of sirens hooting down the river, the darkness and the wind.
— from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Was it the ancient tyrannical soul in her which would make a thousand women sacrifice themselves for the man she herself set above all others?
— from The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker

The little pebbles, round and white, which lay under the water, seemed to form themselves into tiny shapes.
— from Zula by H. Esselstyn Lindley

They nodded kindly to him, and then explained that they had come in consequence of an invitation they had received long ago, and that they were sorry to find their host in so bad a state.
— from Ernest Bracebridge: School Days by William Henry Giles Kingston