We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles round the corner of the island and up the narrow passage to the haven behind Skeleton Island.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

It may only be used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

If there is but one criterion of morals, but one archetype for man, women appear to be suspended by destiny, according to the vulgar tale of Mahomet's coffin; they have neither the unerring instinct of brutes, nor are allowed to fix the eye of reason on a perfect model.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Those 339 islands which are to be found between the mouths of the Ister we have already mentioned 2875 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

17 Among the many survivals in civilised countries of these notions may be noticed the belief that, in order to be free from a spell it is necessary to draw blood from the witch above the breath, i.e. , mouth and nostrils; to ‘score aboon the breath’ is a Scottish phrase.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

His principal works are two books of homilies, a Treatise on the Old and New Testaments , a translation and abridgment of the first seven books of the Bible, a Latin Grammar and Glossary , &c. He has been frequently confounded both with Ælfric, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Ælfric, Archbishop of York, surnamed Putta, who lived about the same time.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Daw ikaúlaw níya nga tawgun silang magsúun si Dúris, Apparently she was ashamed to be called Doris’ sister.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She went to her walk outside the long, ivy-covered wall over which she could see the tree-tops; and the second time she walked up and down the most interesting and exciting thing happened to her, and it was all through Ben Weatherstaff’s robin.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

She was afforded leisure for this function by having all her little wants attended to by Miss Winifred.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

102 The Willow-Wren and the Bear ONCE in summer-time the bear and the wolf were walking in the forest, and the bear heard a bird singing so beautifully that he said, "Brother wolf, what bird is it that sings so well?"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

But they did not surmise that it might be the man's saddle and mode of riding, to which the animal was entirely unaccustomed, that were at the bottom of the difficulty.
— from Dulcibel: A Tale of Old Salem by Henry Peterson

7 There was always a drama worth watching at the British base, for it was the gate of those who came in and of those who went out, "the halfway house" as a friend of mine called another place in France, between the front and home.
— from The Soul of the War by Philip Gibbs

The conversation became very general; those who had seen Bonaparte describing him to those who were about to be introduced.
— from Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 by lieutenant-colonel (Ninian) Pinkney

One cask of meat was all that the king’s stores contained when Mr. Marsden first landed on those shores from which the produce of the most magnificent flocks and herds the world has ever pastured was afterwards to be shipped.
— from Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, of Paramatta, Senior Chaplain of New South Wales; and of His Early Connexion with the Missions to New Zealand and Tahiti by Samuel Marsden

I was almost astonished to see the bright sunshine streaming in my window, and the blue sky, the next morning.
— from A Sister's Love: A Novel by W. Heimburg

That such a secret should be kept from him, the father, was acknowledged to be a heinous fault;—but the wife had known the secret and had kept it from him, the father!
— from The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope

We allow the bills of previous proceedings at our Athenaeum to be exposed at the window till the new bills are prepared,—keeps the whole thing alive, sir.” “Conchology,” said the Comedian, “is a subject which requires deep research, and on which a learned man may say much without fear of contradiction.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

In the excitement prevailing a practical view of this kind was apt to be misconstrued, as indeed it was.
— from The Siege of Kimberley Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902); Eighteen Weeks in Eighteen Chapters by T. Phelan

Two inducements are offered to England for the adoption of a plan the evils whereof were so patent in 1886 that it then could not, if we are to believe Mr. Morley, 45 have commanded twenty supporters in the House of Commons.
— from A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 by Albert Venn Dicey