The story was not a long one, and when it was finished, he ventured to ask a few questions as a reward of merit.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

As the sun rose higher, Eliza saw before her, floating on the air, a range of mountains, with shining masses of ice on their summits.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Even so, methinks, when Earth to being sprang, Dawned the first days, and such the course they held; 'Twas Spring-tide then, ay, Spring, the mighty world Was keeping: Eurus spared his wintry blasts, When first the flocks drank sunlight, and a race Of men like iron from the hard glebe arose, And wild beasts thronged the woods, and stars the heaven.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

the white, if they were for peace Stay at home & do as we had Derected them, if the were for war ore were Deturmined to Stop us we were ready to defend our Selves, we halted one houre & 1/2 on the S. S. & made a Substitute of Stones for a ancher, refreshed our men and proceeded on about 2 miles higher up & came too a verry Small Sand bar in the middle of the river & Stayed all night, I am Verry unwelle for want of Sleep Deturmined to Sleep to night if possible, the men Cooked & we rested well.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and relationship of men utilitarian.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

(after a reverie of meditation,) 'Ay!
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

He was not content, however, with an accurate restatement of Malone’s arguments.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Another ancient race of mythical priests are the Bhṛigus, to whom the Indian Prometheus, Mātariçvan, [ 109 ] brought the hidden Agni from heaven, and whose function was the establishment and diffusion of the sacrificial fire on earth.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

I got fidgety again, and resolved on making a survey of the grounds before the rain came.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Before the countess could reply, a young girl bounded into the room, with a letter in one hand, and a roll of music in the other.
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

Thus, the attractions and repulsions of magnetic poles manifest themselves just as strongly when the poles are separated by a stratum of wood or stone as when merely air intervenes, and the attraction of small pieces of iron by a magnet takes place through the interposed palm of one’s hand without diminution.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

It is true, at any rate of most of the states of the Union.
— from The High School Captain of the Team; or, Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

"I may say that the contents of this pocketbook, although intensely interesting to myself, as a record of my father, do not bear upon the title.
— from With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Altogether a repulsive old man.
— from John Herring: A West of England Romance. Volume 1 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

And since you are willing to do me the favor," continued he, drawing from his bosom a snuff-box richly set with diamonds, "accept this as a remembrance of my pleasant visit to you to-day.
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

The Colclough estates were large, the freeholders thereon numerous, and devoted to the interest of their patriotic leader, whose uncle, Mr. John Grogan, of Johnstown Castle (also a relative of mine), possessed of a very large fortune and extensive tenantry, had united with his nephew and other most respectable and independent gentlemen of that county, to liberate its representation from the trammels of certain noblemen who had for many years usurped its domination.
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir

There was a scramble below and a ripple of mirth floated up to them.
— from Bar-20 Days by Clarence Edward Mulford

It was an unhappy life that I lived; and its one dominant anxiety, towering over all its other anxieties, like a high mountain above a range of mountains, never disappeared from my view.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

He is as a root of many great things; the fruit of him is found growing, from deep thousands of years, over the whole field of Teutonic life.
— from The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire by S. W. Partington