The dell, upon the mountain's crest, Yawned like a gash on warrior's breast; Its trench had stayed full many a rock, Hurled by primeval earthquake shock From Benvenue's gray summit wild, And here, in random ruin piled, They frowned incumbent o'er the spot And formed the rugged sylvan "rot.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Then up to my Lady, and staid two hours talking with her about her family business with great content and confidence in me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

(This reminded me that he had constantly seen me in the country; a memory which I had retained, but kept out of sight, because, since I had seen Gilberte again, Swann had become to me pre-eminently her father, and no longer the Combray Swann; as the ideas which, nowadays, I made his name connote were different from the ideas in the system of which it was formerly comprised, which I utilised not at all now when I had occasion to think of him, he had become a new, another person; still I attached him by an artificial thread, secondary and transversal, to our former guest; and as nothing had any longer any value for me save in the extent to which my love might profit by it, it was with a spasm of shame and of regret at not being able to erase them from my memory that I recaptured the years in which, in the eyes of this same Swann who was at this moment before me in the Champs-Elysées, and to whom, fortunately, Gilberte had perhaps not mentioned my name, I had so often, in the evenings, made myself ridiculous by sending to ask Mamma to come upstairs to my room to say good-night to me, while she was drinking coffee with him and my father and my grandparents at the table in the garden.)
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Miss Waterford was a good hostess, and seeing my embarrassment came up to me.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Those who have the largest share of ambition and of resources quit the army; others, adapting their tastes and their desires to their scanty fortunes, ultimately look upon the military profession in a civil point of view.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

When I grew old enough to understand the meaning of the word death, I asked if my mother was dead, and I was told—'No, she was not dead; she was ill, and she was away.'
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

On the east front Columbus spoke to them of ships that sailed toward the sunset; in the Rotunda they kept a tryst with William Penn; from the west-front portico they saw a city beautiful—the streets under the moon were rivers of light—the great monument reached like the soul of Washington toward the stars!
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

How the secluded said, that they did not intend by coming in to express revenge upon these men, but only to meet and dissolve themselves, and only to issue writs for a free Parliament.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“Mr. Little applied under the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code to tender pardon to one of the accused, Krishni, woman, aged 22, on her undertaking to make a true and full statement of facts under which the deceased girl Cassi was murdered.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

"The Wireless Patrol thanks you, Charley, but we want you to sell the skin and use the money and the bounty to pay for the field-glasses you need."
— from The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol Or, The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol by Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss

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— from The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2 by Percy Bysshe Shelley

He thought upon the mysterious packet of the maid of the cavern, which seemed always to escape him when within his very grasp.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

But when he returned to the table and again took up the missive, the same words stared him in the face.
— from The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss

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— from Inaugural Presidential Address by Donald Trump

When I had time to reflect upon the matter, I came to the conclusion that as a sportsman I was a failure, and went back to the house.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

They both stood looking down upon the jewel, the girl's finger-tips resting upon the man's hand.
— from The Hawk of Egypt by Joan Conquest

Again unable to make much further headway against the fierce French counter-attacks, he carried the battle still farther to his right, attacking between Noyon and Montdidier on 9th June in the hope of linking up the new Marne salient with the one already formed at Amiens, and so advancing on one immense front.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Estremoz to Felspar Volume 4, Part 3 by Various

But if the primary shell be of the many-chambered kind, the shelly secretion consolidates over the sarcode projection which thus remains fixed, and the shell has then two chambers, the aperture in the last being the mouth, from which, by a protrusion of sarcode, a third chamber may be added, the new chamber being always placed upon the mouth of its predecessor, a process which may be continued indefinitely, the mouth of the last segment being the mouth of the whole shell.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 2 (of 2) by Mary Somerville