Harriet had been at Hartfield, as usual, soon after breakfast; and, after a time, had gone home to return again to dinner: she returned, and sooner than had been talked of, and with an agitated, hurried look, announcing something extraordinary to have happened which she was longing to tell.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

“I don't see how we ran up such a bill as that,” said Carrie.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Erat quoque in eodem loco unica spinosa arbor, brevis admodum (quam nos ipsi nostris propriis oculis vidimus).
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Its top is not more spacious than the palm of a man’s hand, and standing upon such a base as that, Flask seemed perched at the mast-head of some ship which had sunk to all but her trucks.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

" I hastened to the home of my Uncle Sarada and borrowed an atlas.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

"But, whilst insufficiency of clothing is to be deprecated, excessive wrapping up should also be avoided.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

They continued their retreat into Upper Silesia; and Buonaparte advanced to Breslau, and released the garrison of Glogau.
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislature of every state.
— from A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson

‘Here beside me, in a glass case, are two little snakes, both belonging to the same genus ( Tropidonotus )—a seven-banded ( T. leberis ), and a moccasin ( T. fasciatus ), both hailing from the United States, and both alike in their habits and choice of food; yet it is a case of rouge et noir with their lingual appendages.’
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

But to own or choose such a king, whose manner is there described, would bring ourselves under such a burden and misery, wherein the Lord would not hear us: therefore it were our sin.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

This story was in 1817 related to Major Long, of the United States Army, by a member of Wahpasha's tribe, Wa-ze-co-to, who claimed to have been an eyewitness of the tragedy.
— from Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 by George Byron Merrick

It is evident that a people who looked upon such a being as divine, must have worshipped power, and not virtue; and that what we call vice and crime, were, in their view, compatible with divinity.
— from Famous Men of Ancient Times by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

But for a time I was very bashful, shaking when called upon suddenly, and blushing as deep as a maiden; for my strength was not come upon me, and mayhap I had grown in front of it.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

This much done, the Black River & Utica subsided and became apparently a semi-dormant enterprise—for a number of long years.
— from The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad by Edward Hungerford