For there, laid bare by the removal of the earth, was an undoubted facing of solid stone laid in large blocks and bound together with brown cement, so hard that I could make no impression on it with the file in my shooting-knife.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

She tried to make talk but could say nothing, and after he had gone she was angry at herself for her stupidity.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

The Sun was worshipped at Emesa, under the name of Elagabalus, and under the form of a black conical stone, which, as it was universally believed, had fallen from heaven on that sacred place.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I declare our ‘Bonadventure’ could stay here from one end of the year to the other, without even dragging at her anchor!”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

And something like this was the manner in which they managed at Carthage, and preserved the affections of the people; for by continually sending some of their community into colonies they procured plenty.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

It stands over his grave now, in Bellefontaine cemetery, St. Louis.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

But Cho Seng passed them by unseeing, and unhearing.
— from The Argus Pheasant by John Charles Beecham

According to Herod´otus, all the south-east of Europe used to be called Scythia, and Xenophon calls the dwellers south of the Caspian Sea “Scythians,” also.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

A road had been cut to it between cornfields, so that in the time of springing corn a man walking on this road seemed to be wading to the knees in a green undulating sea, which had risen and submerged the hill.
— from Women of the Country by Gertrude Bone

For this purpose “plantain” or coral-bean trees are planted between every second row; and these, quickly shooting up above the cacao-trees, afford the most luxuriant appearance to a plantation, their long bare stems being contrasted strongly with the rich green of the cacao below.
— from The Wanderers; Or, Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by William Henry Giles Kingston

He tries to stand up and support himself, but cannot summon the strength to walk away, for his sickness has so affected him that he can scarcely stand upon his feet.
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

Thus the Confederate plans had been completely successful.
— from With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

That portion of Custer's brigade which went on the raid, as it was called, was commanded by Colonel Sawyer, of the First Vermont cavalry.
— from Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd