Accordingly, the next time I had the honor to see our emperor, I desired his general license to wait on the Blefuscudian monarch, which he was pleased to grant me, as I could plainly perceive, in a very cold manner; but could not guess the reason, till I had a whisper from a certain person, that Flimnap and Bolgolam had represented my intercourse with those ambassadors as a mark of disaffection, from which, I am sure, my heart was wholly free.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

If further evidence were wanting for the present argument, it would be found in another expression of Ulpian's.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I could hardly refrain from shouting out to relieve my till then suppressed excitement, especially when nature gave way, and there spurted forth a jet of sperm, actually from the bed against the door towards which I had pointed my prick while wildly frigging it, and in imagination shoving it into aunt—anywhere; for if ever the saying that “there was plenty of good fucking about all these parts” was applicable to anyone, it was supremely so in my glorious aunt’s case.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

We demand no further pay, and when our grain is exhausted, we will feed on the beasts, and when these fail we will thin the ranks of the Southrons and die sword in hand.”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The spell of royalty is broken, but it has not been succeeded by the majesty of the laws; the people has learned to despise all authority, but fear now extorts a larger tribute of obedience than that which was formerly paid by reverence and by love.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The sun had already gone below the horizon and the west was flaming gold, touched with some horizontal bars of purple and crimson.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Each colony has, besides, its own historic monuments, some of which are extremely curious; beginning with Virginia, the State which was first peopled.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

we passed the river near where we dined and just above the entrance of a beautifull river 80 yards wide which falls in on the Lard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The smallest class were whisked off with lightning speed; but about larger ones he would sometimes wheel and hum for some minutes, darting hither and thither, and surveying them warily, and if satisfied that they could be carried, he would come down with a quick, central dart which would finish the unfortunate at a snap.
— from Queer Little Folks by Harriet Beecher Stowe

His father permitted him to remain in bed till the second hour of the day had struck, or rather forbade him to rise before this time—an indulgence which worked well for the preservation of his health.
— from Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study by W. G. (William George) Waters

Like foxes at the click of a trap, these men whirled with fearsome glances.
— from The Last Trail by Zane Grey

All the youth that Sixte had lost seemed to appear in his wife’s radiant countenance; provincial pleasantries passed from ear to ear, circulating the more readily because the women were furious at the new superiority of the sometime queen of Angouleme; and the persistent intruder paid the penalty of his wife’s offence.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Holding the reel in the left hand by seizing the central "body" or rod, the yarn was wound from end to end of the reel, by an odd, waving, wobbling motion, into knots and skeins of the same size as by the first process described.
— from Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

All day long they were in the saddle, overlooking twenty stockmen and shepherds, examining the herds and flocks, and often themselves doctoring any which were found diseased or injured.
— from The Gilpins and their Fortunes: A Story of Early Days in Australia by William Henry Giles Kingston

They scarcely had time to express their surprise to each other, before it was much heightened by the appearance of a woman, who followed the animals out of the forest and drove them quickly across the grass which had formerly been the courtyard of the castle, to a high mound a little way to the north of it, there both she and the cattle disappeared in the fog and among a thick growth of spruces.
— from Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days by Anna W. Ford Piper

It would all be just as it was after the war with France, when every German was filled with patriotism, and when Germany for the first time became one country.
— from The Destroyer: A Tale of International Intrigue by Burton Egbert Stevenson

A grievous mishap befel their worships the under-magistrates of Glasgow: The ruler of that city, who never bought or sold any thing less than a bale of cotton or a basket of figs, could not be expected to ride in the same carriage with the bailies, many of whom were fain to vend a sixpenny handkerchief, or an ounce of caraway seeds; so two carriages were prepared, the foremost for his lordship, and the hindermost for their not-lordships.
— from The Modern Athens A dissection and demonstration of men and things in the Scotch Capital. by Robert Mudie

The politicians of the North were becoming alarmed by the issues which were forced upon them by those of the South with whom they still wished to be friends; they longed to shift the responsibility of the decision upon the Supreme Court.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various