A board had rattled under her feet in the great nursery where she played, and on attention being drawn to it, it was found to be loose, and so removed, revealed a ladder, leading to a hiding-place between the floor of the nursery and the ceiling of the room below—a hiding-place so small that he who had hid there must have crouched on his hands and knees or lain at full length, and yet large enough to contain a quaint old carved oak chest, half filled with priests' vestments, which had been hidden away, no doubt, in those cruel days when the life of a man was in danger if he was discovered to have harbored a Roman Catholic priest, or to have mass said in his house.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

This Great Shute or falls is about 1/2 a mile with the water of this great river Compressed within the Space of 150 paces in which there is great numbers of both large and Small rocks, water passing with great velocity forming & boiling in a most horriable manner, with a fall of about 20 feet, below it widens to about 200 paces and current gentle for a Short distance.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But like all such records, public view of them is not easily accessible so far as they relate to modern times.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

When the sound of his steps had died away, she suddenly stood up before Laptev and said resolutely, turning horribly white as she did so: "I thought for a long time yesterday, Alexey Fyodorovitch. . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It takes courage and pluck to be outvoted, beaten, laughed at, scoffed, ridiculed, derided, misunderstood, misjudged, to stand alone with all the world against you, but "They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three."
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

"William is being led away," she remarked abruptly, with a catching of the breath, apropos of tablecloths.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

However, the double conception of the corn as mother and daughter may have been too old and too deeply rooted in the popular mind to be eradicated by logic, and so room had to be found in the reformed myth both for mother and daughter.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

An enthusiastic transport, akin to happiness, burst, like a sudden ray from the sun, on our darkened life.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Whilst the deserted Dido ended her life on the funeral pile, Æneas set sail with his companions, and after further adventures by land and sea reached the Page 42 [42] country of King Latinus, in Italy.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Gone are the living, but the dead remain And not neglected, for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty, like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their memories green.
— from See America First by Charles J. Herr

The brilliant eyes of the Italian flashed with triumphant scorn, and a smile of contemptuous irony curled her beautiful lip as she replied—"These legal gentlemen will not have much difficulty in explaining my right to remain in my own house."
— from The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney by Samuel Warren

It is best [26] viewed as a degeneration of the coats of the arteries, both large and small resulting in several different more or less distinct types.
— from Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension, with Chapters on Blood Pressure 3rd Edition. by Louis M. (Louis Marshall) Warfield

He would glide in at a critical moment—paying, in his agitated client's view, "an angel's visit"—and with smiling ease seize advantages seen by none but himself, repair disasters appearing to others irreparable, and with a single blow demolish the entire fabric which in his absence had been laboriously and skilfully raised by his opponent.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

The Romans, victorious both by land and sea, returned to Lilybaeum with immense booty of every kind.
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy

As usually happened with Bobby Dane's remarks, this proved the end of any serious talk, and Beatrix laughed, as she responded,— "Please come alone, Mr. Thayer.
— from The Dominant Strain by Anna Chapin Ray

They had just been laughing at some remark of little Roger’s, and they were all in more or less good spirits, feeling so near the end of their perilous journey; when all at once, in a turn of the pass, the leading horse came to a sudden halt.
— from The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt

Just as we rounded the rocky point of the Island, before reaching the landing, a squall of unusual force struck us athwart the bows, wave after wave leaped aboard, and for awhile our gallant little craft quivered in the blast like a spent race-horse, as she struggled onward.
— from Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James Fowler Rusling