And with a rapid movement, she opened the door of the den, and went out into the corridor.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Having secured the camp of Xenoetas, Molon crossed the river in perfect safety and without any resistance, Molon’s successful campaign.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

These boats cannot sail up the river unless there be a very fresh wind blowing, but are towed from the shore: down-stream however they travel as follows:—they have a door-shaped crate made of tamarisk wood and reed mats sewn together, and also a stone of about two talents weight bored with a hole; and of these the boatman lets the crate float on in front of the boat, fastened with a rope, and the stone drags behind by another rope.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

As a rule he spoke with a rather mocking smile, so that it was difficult to make out whether he was in earnest or joking.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He was a rich man’s son and had always dressed in silk and eaten dainty fare, and had never in his life walked more than a few feet from his father’s door.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

He was madly in love with Alima, really; more so than he had ever been before, and their tempestuous courtship, quarrels, and reconciliations had fanned the flame.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Do you accept?" "We accept," replied Messrs. Stuart, Fallentin, Sullivan, Flanagan, and Ralph, after consulting each other.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

In order to form an accurate judgment on both of these points, it will be proper to inquire into the purposes which are to be answered by a senate; and in order to ascertain these, it will be necessary to review the inconveniences which a republic must suffer from the want of such an institution.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Wulfad and Ruffin, MM., sons of Wulfere, Penda's son, and of St. Erminilda.
— from Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

His aim was to dwell among the tents of civil life, undisturbed by quarrels and the din of war, and render mankind subservient to his interest, not by stratagems which irritate, but by that suppleness of insinuation, which could not fail to soothe the temper of those on whom he meant to prey.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Passing the straws to the riflemen, and af ter they had drawn one each from his tightly closed hands, he ordered a man to set up the target—a planed plank, about one foot in width and six in length, with a round marked spot about three inches in diameter, near the top.
— from Rancho Del Muerto, and Other Stories of Adventure by Various Authors, from "Outing" by Charles King

I will add a little more than that, I will withdraw it whenever a reasonable man shall be brought to believe that the charge is not true.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 4: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Abraham Lincoln

They consist of a quaint collection of dwarf shrubs, miniature lakes full of gold fish, lilliputian walks in the middle of diminutive flower beds, tiny streams over which are little green arches to imitate bridges, and finally arbors or bowers beneath which a rabbit might scarcely find room to nestle.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White

Why are rooks more sociable than ravens, and what do they gain from such communalism?
— from Birds in the Calendar by Frederick G. (Frederick George) Aflalo

Wulfhad and Ruffin, Martyrs St. Lewine, Virgin and Martyr St. Declan, Bishop in Ireland St. Kinga, Virgin 25.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler

how dare ye put your bit baton across the grave, where a righteous man should have been laid this day?”
— from The Laird of Norlaw; A Scottish Story by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant