There was a dentist's sign, among others, which adorned the entrance, and, after staring a moment at the pair of artificial jaws which slowly opened and shut to draw attention to a fine set of teeth, the young gentleman put on his coat, took his hat, and went down to post himself in the opposite door-way, saying, with a smile and a shiver,— "It's like her to come alone, but if she has a bad time she'll need some one to help her home."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Perhaps she too had kept her memory of him as something apart; but if she had, it must have been like a relic in a small dim chapel, where there was not time to pray every day....
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Any one would have thought that the heavy load would have weighed her to the ground, but she always brought it safely home.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

When I try to imagine him as a boy I see him with gray whiskers and spectacles, just as he looks in Sunday school, only small.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I’m half dead with it already; besides, I shall have no time to dress.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

No, sir, I should have come out long ago, but I stay here from compassion for you.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It heats the stomach, and helps want of digestion coming through cold, it eases pains in the belly and loins, the Illiac passion, powerfully breaks the stone in the reins and bladder, it speedily helps the cholic, stranguary, and disury.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

We all said he had the Devil’s luck and his own, and as it was the kind of night for the Devil to be out and busy, I suppose he was looking over his shoulder, if anybody could have seen him.’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

I have been tempted to expatiate on the extraordinary character and adventures of Andronicus; but I shall here terminate the series of the Greek emperors since the time of Heraclius.
— 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 is the real exchange that is annually made between those two orders of people, though it seldom happens that the rude produce of the one, and the manufactured produce of the other, are directly bartered for one another; because it seldom happens that the farmer sells his corn and his cattle, his flax and his wool, to the very same person of whom he chuses to purchase the clothes, furniture, and instruments of trade, which he wants.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

“He hates me, I believe,” thought Marion to herself, “and all because I showed him how I loathed him.
— from My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 4, October 20, 1900 Marion Marlowe's Noble Work; or, The Tragedy at the Hospital by Lurana Sheldon

England was united in domestic peace, and by its situation happily secured from the invasion of foreigners.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume

The nest is always built in some hollow among the Arctic willow or lichen, and the eggs are difficult enough to see, as is the bird itself when sitting on them—they all look so exactly like the ground.
— from The Silent Readers: Sixth Reader by Ethel Maltby Gehres

Almost before it sounded his bedroom door opened noiselessly, and his valet stood there.
— from The Relentless City by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

It may be a deliberate piece of affectation; but I see her eyes become animated when I appear unexpectedly.
— from The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal

At that time, he was so pleasing, that, if I had had a daughter with ample fortune and beauty, I should have trusted her in marriage with Lord Byron.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe

On and on we went, over roads that seemed interminable, and still the dreadful sword of justice hung always, by its single hair, over my head.
— from A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins

At last, conscience-stricken, we carried the beloved prisoner to the meadow west of Dunbar where it was born, and, blessing its sweet heart, bravely set it free, and our exceeding great reward was to see it fly and sing in the sky.
— from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir