5 Now Asia, Africa leave me, Europe seizing inflates me, To organs huge and bands I hear as from vast concourses of voices, Luther's strong hymn Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott, Rossini's Stabat Mater dolorosa, Or floating in some high cathedral dim with gorgeous color'd windows, The passionate Agnus Dei or Gloria in Excelsis.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

With his crippled left hand promotion in the army was hopeless, now that Don John was dead and he had no one to press his claims and services, and for a man drawing on to forty life in the ranks was a dismal prospect; he had already a certain reputation as a poet; he made up his mind, therefore, to cast his lot with literature, and for a first venture committed his “Galatea” to the press.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I think it was about ten days afterward that, as I finished a statement I was making for the instruction of a group of friends and acquaintances, and which made no pretence of being extraordinary, a familiar voice chimed instantly in on the heels of my last word, and said: “But, my dear sir, there was nothing remarkable about that horse, or the circumstance either—nothing in the world!
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

There is by the side of it a cabinet handsome enough, with a fireplace very commodiously contrived, and plenty of light; and were I not more afraid of the trouble than the expense—the trouble that frights me from all business—I could very easily adjoin on either side, and on the same floor, a gallery of an hundred paces long and twelve broad, having found walls already raised for some other design to the requisite height.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“This is a mob of scoundrels and not an army,” he was thinking as he went up to the window of the first house, when a familiar voice called him by name.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And a feeble voice came quavering from within the house, " Courtoisie " I stripped, and rubbed myself from head to foot in the huge earthen basin of icy water which stood upon the stone floor at the foot of my bed.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Before the election of the Merovingian kings, the most powerful tribe, or nation, of the Franks, appointed four venerable chieftains to compose the Salic laws; and their labors were examined and approved in three successive assemblies of the people.
— 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

First: Though most men have some vague flitting ideas of the general perils of the grand fishery, yet they have nothing like a fixed, vivid conception of those perils, and the frequency with which they recur.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

A few very common patterns such as adverbs in “-līce” listed under adjectives in “-lic” are not individually noted.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

But a few voices cried: "Take that back!" "I won't take anything back that I know is the truth.
— from A Spoil of Office: A Story of the Modern West by Hamlin Garland

The wing is usually rounded, and the tail and foot vary considerably both as to size and form.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

I like the lady patrons (Oh! immensely) who are frequently very chic (and with exquisite ankles).
— from Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday

Nicol Brinn clenched his teeth grimly for a moment, and then, holding her averted face very close to his own, he began to speak in a low, monotonous voice.
— from Fire-Tongue by Sax Rohmer

While on his way uptown to post his letter, Walter heard a familiar voice call out, "Hi, hombre !
— from The Young Vigilantes: A Story of California Life in the Fifties by Samuel Adams Drake

I have rested very well, and feel very comfortable to-day.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

He is earnest in his affairs and cautious in his speech, and frequents virtuous company for his own improvement.
— from The Sayings of Confucius A New Translation of the Greater Part of the Confucian Analects by Confucius

Then a few days later me and Holy run into two calves with the Diamond H and one was followin' a Flyin' V cow, and the other was suckin' a Three Moon.
— from The Long Dim Trail by Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) Hooker