Then when the time comes for study, the entire house becomes so still that you could hear a pin drop.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

In the midst of which dust and noise there is but one thing perfectly clear, to wit, that Tom only may and can, or shall and will, be reclaimed according to somebody's theory but nobody's practice.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In the evening down to Tower Wharfe thinking to go by water, but could not get watermen; they being now so scarce, by reason of the great presse; so to the Custome House, and there, with great threats, got a couple to carry me down to Deptford, all the way reading Pompey the Great (a play translated from the French by several noble persons; among others, my Lord Buckhurst), that to me is but a mean play, and the words and sense not very extraordinary.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

They went together to the dining-room, where the Vicomte was waiting for his wife.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

King Baldwin received him particularly well, and rode with him all the way to the river Jordan, and then back to the city of Jerusalem.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Some feeble and hasty efforts were made for the defence of Jerusalem: but in the space of fourteen days, a victorious army drove back the sallies of the besieged, planted their engines, opened the wall to the breadth of fifteen cubits, applied their scaling-ladders, and erected on the breach twelve banners of the prophet and the sultan.
— 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 rationality which would then be attained is so immensely exalted above the microscopic vision and punctiform sensibility of those who think themselves practical, that speculative natures seem to be proclaiming another set of interests, another and quite miraculous life, when they attempt to thaw out and vivify the vulgar mechanism; and the sense of estrangement and contradiction often comes over the spiritually minded themselves, making them confess sadly that the kingdom of heaven is not of this world.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Note 31 ( return ) [ If Theophilus, bishop of Antioch, (see Dupin, Bibliotheque Ecclesiastique, tom. i. p. 66,) was the first who employed the word Triad, Trinity, that abstract term, which was already familiar to the schools of philosophy, must have been introduced into the theology of the Christians after the middle of the second century.
— 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

Then said Pantagruel, My lads, retire yourselves unto the ship; here are some of our enemies coming apace, but I will kill them here before you like beasts, although they were ten times so many; in the meantime, withdraw yourselves, and take your sport at it.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

He led the way to the wood where the horses were tethered, and the captain, Joe, and Darry came close behind him.
— from Boys of The Fort; Or, A Young Captain's Pluck by Edward Stratemeyer

We had now before us the roughest stage of our journey, for we had reached the hills that part the waters tributary to the Euphrates, from those that are tributary to the Saiḥûnthe {343} Persian Gulf from the Mediterranean.
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

Sambo, after examining the marks on the ground, declared it his belief that their other two companions had been carried off by the Indians, Jack’s first impulse was to run away from the fatal spot, but on consulting with Sambo they agreed that the Indians, having carried off every thing, were not likely to return: besides, without the mate to guide them, they were unable to find their way to the European settlements.
— from Jack Buntline by William Henry Giles Kingston

For the most part these chiefs and many men of lesser rank took with them their wives and children and camp equipments.
— from Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam by Augustus Warner Williams

Many vessels were sunk, many captured, many wrecked on a treacherous coast, and yet enormous quantities of supplies found their way to the arsenals and magazines of Richmond and Atlanta.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

Messire Thibault answered shortly that he knew no tale worth the telling.
— from French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie, de France, active 12th century

This ready subserviency is explained, as it transpires, from Evelyn’s account, that the new members were not all that could be desired:— “Mr. Seymour made a bold speech against many of the elections; and would have had those members who (he pretended) were obnoxious, to withdraw, till they had cleared the matter of their being legally returned: but no one seconded him.
— from A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria by Joseph Grego

Q. None of them went to the scene of this disturbance? A. Not to my knowledge, except the men on in that district.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

It was with much concern I saw how hopeless and even unjustifiable it was to persist any longer in attempting a passage this way to the Society Islands.
— from A Voyage to the South Sea Undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh; including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies by William Bligh

To this I replied that I did not think that his Majesty should for this reason act against his constant professions not to wish to take any one’s property or life, on account of religion.
— from What Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel Rawson Gardiner