She began to think it rather hard upon the mare to have such double duty; if she were forgotten, the poor mare should be remembered.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Adauctus is the more remarkable for being the only person of rank and distinction who appears to have suffered death, during the whole course of this general persecution.
— 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

This message effectually calmed the German, who was not a little mortified to find himself so disagreeably disturbed.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

[347] and all the while he was going faster and faster, till his head began to spin, and he thought he should drop down in the road; but he couldn’t, you see, for his little bits of feet kept hopping and skipping along, so of course there was no time for him to tumble flat.
— from The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House by Margaret Sidney

With Mr. Ruggles, on the corner of Lispenard and Church streets, I was hidden several days, during which time my intended wife came on from Baltimore at my call, to share the burdens of life with me.
— from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

They babbled for a long time; then the swarthy Tartar jumped up and walked over to Zhilín: "Uruss," he said, "dzhigit, dzhigit Uruss!"
— from Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And as I had given them the good old ship for their sepulcher, I now bequeathed to my immortal dead the flag they had so desperately defended, for their winding sheet!
— from The Little Book of the Flag by Eva March Tappan

He sat down, determined to get through with the scene as quickly as possible.
— from The Walking Delegate by Leroy Scott