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— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

When he was arraigned that same morning, the district leader had already seen the clerk of the court and explained that Jurgis Rudkus was a decent fellow, who had been indiscreet; and so Jurgis was fined ten dollars and the fine was “suspended”—which meant that he did not have to pay for it, and never would have to pay it, unless somebody chose to bring it up against him in the future.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

In that year his friend Lars Johanneson Holo of Ringsaker, Hedemarken, together with three grown up sons came to America.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Adrian and I, leaving Clara and Evelyn wrapt in peaceful unobserving slumber, carried the body to this desolate spot, and placed it in those caves of ice beneath the glacier, which rive and split with the slightest sound, and bring destruction on those within the clefts—no bird or beast of prey could here profane the frozen form.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Correct, but under such conditions the man has no freedom.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Under such circumstances, there is so much which transpires that is absolutely irrelevant and immaterial, that the proceedings would be interminable if every little thing were recorded.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Grex totus in agris / Unius scabie cadit —The entire flock in the fields dies of the disease introduced by one.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But pray, Dr. Slop, quoth my father, interrupting my uncle (tho’ not without begging pardon for it at the same time) upon what principles was this self-same chariot set a-going?—Upon very pretty principles to be sure, replied Dr. Slop :—And I have often wondered, continued he, evading the question, why none of our gentry, who live upon large plains like this of ours,—(especially they whose wives are not past child-bearing) attempt nothing of this kind; for it would not only be infinitely expeditious upon sudden calls, to which the sex is subject,—if the wind only served,—but would be excellent good husbandry to make use of the winds, which cost nothing, and which eat nothing, rather than horses, which (the devil take ’em) both cost and eat a great deal.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

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— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, May 1884, No. 8 by Chautauqua Institution

We are told that it is in contemplation, another season, to put up several cottages, to be rented to families who will board at the hotel.
— from Palmetto-Leaves by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Under such circumstances the first virtue which a democratic society would have to possess would be enthusiastic diligence.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And she walked on through the meadow until she came to a baker's oven that was full of bread; and the bread called out to her, "Oh, take me out, take me out, or I shall burn; I am baked enough already!"
— from Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

We very nearly made him and his whole army prisoners, and we followed them up so closely that they had no time to rest till they were clear out of Portugal; but the hour is up.
— from Ernest Bracebridge: School Days by William Henry Giles Kingston

"I do not even believe he will stay with me until spring comes to us here."
— from Arne; Early Tales and Sketches Patriots Edition by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

How can one hope under such circumstances, that the misunderstanding, the sole cause of our misfortunes, can be cleared away?
— from Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by John Leighton

This, if the mollusk is univalve ( i.e. , whose shell is composed of a single piece), such as an ordinary garden snail, can easily be done by picking them out with a pin; you will find, probably, that some of the smaller ones have shrunk back so far into their shells as to be beyond the reach of a straight pin, so it will be necessary to bend the pin with a pair of pliers, or, if none are at hand, a key will answer the purpose if the pin be put into one of the notches and bent over the edge until sufficiently curved to reach up the shell.
— from Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by B. B. (Bernard Bolingbroke) Woodward

Under such conditions, the prestige of State citizenship was rapidly disappearing.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks