Is it a dream, and can it be? Cousin, rememb'rest Grandison?" "What!
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

It happened that my Lord Arlington coming in by chance was at the hearing of all this, which I was not sorry for, for he did move or did second the Duke of York that this roguery of his might be put in the News-book that it might be made publique to satisfy for the wrong the credit of this office hath received by this rogue’s occasion.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"It has a very nice smell," said Lucy, [84] examining the dark brown beads, which hung rather loosely on their string, and letting them fall one by one through her hands, till of course that happened which she was hoping for: she woke on a long low sofa, in the midst of a room all carpet and cushions, in bright colours and gorgeous patterns, curling about with no particular meaning; and with a window of rich brass lattice-work.
— from Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

We waited for no second bidding, for bread and cheese is but cold comfort and the puddings smelt excellently well; and while we sat and ate, she took up that same place by the next table, looking on, and thinking, and frowning to herself, and drawing the string of her apron through her hand.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

That’s it, come on!” came a third voice just then, and “Uncle’s” red borzoi, straining and curving its back, caught up with the two foremost borzois, pushed ahead of them regardless of the terrible strain, put on speed close to the hare, knocked it off the balk onto the ryefield, again put on speed still more viciously, sinking to his knees in the muddy field, and all one could see was
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

This is why the fibres throughout the intestines are circular in both coats—they only contract peristaltically, they do not exercise traction.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

He was made Master of the Temple in 1893, while holding also a canonry in Bristol Cathedral, to which he had been appointed in 1887.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Ct = Charters, wills and other like documents, as contained in BC, CC, EC, KC and TC.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

These bald- headed officers in pointed helmets, so scowling behind their spectacles, had fear in their hearts and concealed it by cruelty.
— from The Soul of the War by Philip Gibbs

"Nor of a Christian, I believe," continued the duke; "he appears consistent, humble, and sincere--three requisites, I believe, for that character.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

H2 anchor A FEW WORDS ABOUT COPYRIGHT IN BOOKS Copyright, which is the exclusive liberty reserved to an author and his assigns of printing or otherwise multiplying copies of his book during certain fixed periods of time, is a right of modern origin.
— from In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell

When these learning curves are compared, it becomes clear that they have certain characteristics in common.
— from How to Teach by Naomi Norsworthy

Life was, in the days of Walpole and Mrs. Radcliffe, more local because of the limitations of travel and communication, it being considered astounding in Gothic times that a ghost could travel a thousand miles with ease while mortals moved snail-like.
— from The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction by Dorothy Scarborough

Say, then, how comes on your sketch, and can it be completed by that time?"
— from The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

It's no good our attempting to make our way overland to Wilhelmshafen through a country infested by cannibals.'
— from The Blue Raider: A Tale of Adventure in the Southern Seas by Herbert Strang