‘I passed , soon after that precious party, and my friends came down with the needful for this business; so I put on a black suit of clothes, and a pair of spectacles, and came here to look as solemn as I could.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Now, though he flung her on to the edge of the hold, so that her knee and her elbow were grazed and bruised, she only cried:— “No—not you—ME,” and struggled up again.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

"A summer in the loftiest heights, with cold springs and blessed stillness: oh come, my friends, that the stillness may wax even more blessed!
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

An extract or two from the newspapers of the day will furnish a photograph that can need no embellishment: FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY.—An affray occurred, last evening, in a billiard saloon on C street, between Deputy Marshal Jack Williams and Wm.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Let a few months pass and you will change your opinion, after you have attended a lot of fiestas and bailúhan , slept on cots, and eaten your fill of tinola .” “Ah, is this thing that you call tinola a variety of lotus which makes people—er—forgetful?” “Nothing of the kind!”
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The sail was white as snow, and in it were red and blue stripes of cloth interwoven.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

If we look into our everyday life we cannot fail to see that God not only allows but seeks our coöperation in the establishment of His Kingdom.
— from A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

"Ain't no use goin' up any furder," said the voice of Arch Hawn; "I've looked all up this crick an' thar ain't nary a blessed sign o' coal."
— from The Heart of the Hills by Fox, John, Jr.

The guide now ordered me away from the geyser; for, although Wairoa generally takes some minutes to play after being soaped, one can never be absolutely certain that it will not respond with inconvenient swiftness.
— from In the Strange South Seas by Beatrice Grimshaw

"He seems a bright sort of chap.
— from The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook by Laura Lee Hope

The nests are placed upon the ground, are built solely of coarsely-tempered mud, and are very curiously shaped, being like narrow, lengthened cones.
— from The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical: A Cabinet for the Curious by Frank H. Stauffer

The one moved rapidly up from the north-west, with banners waving; spears flashing, trumpets sounding; accompanied by heavy artillery and by squadrons of cavalry.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74) by John Lothrop Motley

Assume a black square of cloth; if the flowers are grouped thus from left to right: dark red, pink, white, there is no rhythm, for the mental line is a mere downgrade; if they are grouped: dark red, light blue, dark green, there is no rhythm, for the mental line is a mere curve, a circular or perhaps parabolic basin; but if the grouping amounts to: dark red, pink, light blue, black, light green, cream, dark brown, there is a succession of ebb and flow, rise and fall, rhythm .
— from A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George