Captain Adams—only pausing to convince himself, beyond all question, of the fatal result—sped off in the same direction, to concert measures with his servant for removing the body, and securing his own safety likewise.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The House of Representatives is a beautiful and spacious hall, of semicircular shape, supported by handsome pillars.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

The kidneys are often swollen, congested, or inflamed; changes in the respiratory organs are not constantly seen, but in a majority of the cases there have been redness and swelling of the larynx, trachea, and bronchi, and sometimes hepatisation of smaller or larger portions of the lung.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

The soldier held a heavy hunting–whip in his hand––no foppish toy, with a golden trinket for its head, but a stout handle of stag–horn, and a formidable leathern thong.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

On most evenings they sat alone in the kitchen together, but sometimes they went out into the strip of garden at the back of the house to a wooden bench screened by a straggling hedge of scarlet runners.
— from The Black Diamond by Francis Brett Young

That Leopold might not hear them talking outside his door, a thing which no invalid likes, Helen went downstairs with her cousin; but although she had often sung from Handel for his pleasure, content to reproduce the bare sounds, and caring nothing about the feelings both they and the words represented, she positively refused this evening to gratify him.
— from Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2 by George MacDonald

Bedford, as sometimes happens on such occasions, had promptly 280 accepted it; for six months as he said, but, as also happens, for as long as he could keep it, which was more than three years.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

This apparent movement was caused by a spiral haze of smoke so vague that one could only tell of its existence from the mirage-like tremor of the mast round which it curled.
— from The Blue Lagoon: A Romance by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

O almighty God, who out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast ordained strength, and madest infants to glorify thee by their deaths: Mortify and kill all vices in us, and so strengthen us by thy grace, that by the innocency of our lives, and constancy of our faith, even unto death, we may glorify thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
— from The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland

And brass fire-irons and a great chest of books and some heads of statues she'd always liked, and big engravings of foreign places, broken old ruins and such.
— from The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Josephine Daskam Bacon

After driving his “fares” in and out of many byways, the hack man brought his horse up before a shabby house of somewhat larger dimensions than any bungalow the girls had yet seen.
— from Polly's Southern Cruise by Lillian Elizabeth Roy