Father Anthony shuddered to the marrow of his bones, and each time the beast began his long and lugubrious wail the old man's skin turned to goose flesh.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In the rear of this spot begins the chain of Libanus, which extends 1500 stadia, as far as Simyra; this district has the name of Cœle Syria.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

By thee Anjou and Maine were sold to France; The false revolting Normans thorough thee Disdain to call us lord; and Picardy Hath slain their governors, surpris'd our forts, And sent the ragged soldiers wounded home.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He lifted his arm for a signal to some one down the street.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

So he came forward and said that their acts ought not to be ratified by the senate and the people, Frag.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

I can have no other view in remaining with Lady Susan, than to enjoy for a short time (as you have yourself expressed it) the conversation of a woman of high intellectual powers.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

I have before taken notice of an objection liable to be made from a supposition, that if Hanes signified the fountain of light , as I have presumed, it would have been differently expressed in the Hebrew.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

This, added to the effects of three years of hardship and anxiety in the field when already almost past the age limit, soon after brought about a physical and mental collapse, from which he never afterward rallied except at intervals, when for a short time the old spirit would flash out in all its brightness.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The legend of his missionary labours in Spain and of his martyrdom at Rome may have been built on the hypothesis of his continuing in the Apostle’s company, following in the Apostle’s footsteps, and sharing the Apostle’s fate.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Men is nate’lly foolish about some tings,—but dey’s good deal better’n nuffin.’
— from The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Judging human nature by what I have seen of it, I suppose that the customary thing for a stranger to do when he stands here is to make a pun on the name of this club, under the impression, of course, that he is the first man that that idea has occurred to.
— from Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 by Albert Bigelow Paine

sagaysay v [AB3(1); c1] make stones skip over the surface of the water, for a stone to do so.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

$100,000, when thirty-two miles of their railroad, in one or two sections, including all the line east of Florida, and seven thousand lineal feet of their tunnel, in one or more sections, should be completed; and for each additional portion or portions of said tunnel of fifteen hundred feet, in one or more sections, completed by said company, $100,000, subject to the condition that the last $200,000 should be reserved until said company, or their successors, should open their railroad for use from Greenfield to the line of the State in Williamstown; and subject also to the condition,
— from Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866. by Tappan Wentworth

A fellow who unites in himself the bankrupt trader, the broken author, or rather book-maker, and the laughed-down single speech spouter of the House of Commons, may look forward, always supposing that at one time he has been a foaming radical, to the government of an important colony.
— from The Romany Rye A sequel to "Lavengro" by George Borrow

After these objects had also been admired the old man decoyed the party into the little whitewashed cottage where his wife had her hour of triumph in displaying her jars of preserves, pickles, cans of vegetables, dried fruits, and syrup together with quilts and other needlework all carefully arranged for this hoped-for inspection.
— from Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Lyman Beecher Stowe

It was a beautiful day, one of those sunny Italian days when ilex and olive shone with a special glistening quality, and when the “Eternal City” as viewed from the high hill awoke even in the hearts of the little Philistine foreigners a subconscious thrill which they themselves did not quite understand.
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

The English did not fire a shot till within 80 yards, when they poured in a volley and charged with the bayonet.
— from True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty