Another daughter could make a figure like herself follow her, as if she had a shadow, which none of the goblin folk ever had.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

If her carriage were at the door, she was never certain that she would not have to send it away; if she had asked some friends to her house, the chances were she would have to put them off; if she were reading a novel, Lord Marney asked her to copy a letter; if she were going to the opera, she found that Lord Marney had got seats for her and some friend in the House of Lords, and seemed expecting the strongest expressions of delight and gratitude from her for his unasked and inconvenient kindness.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

I gave my sister, who constantly defended the unfortunate boy, good advice, and as she confessed that she had several times missed money to a considerable amount, I showed her a safe place in which to conceal our little treasure for the future.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And at Caerleon had he helped his lord, When the strong neighings of the wild white Horse Set every gilded parapet shuddering; And up in Agned-Cathregonion too, And down the waste sand-shores of Trath Treroit, Where many a heathen fell; 'and on the mount Of Badon I myself beheld the King Charge at the head of all his Table Round, And all his legions crying Christ and him, And break them; and I saw him, after, stand High on a heap of slain, from spur to plume Red as the rising sun with heathen blood, And seeing me, with a great voice he cried, "They are broken, they are broken!"
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

But the learned and wise Greeks have by no means been silent about an interpretation so holy and so illustrious.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

"He's only married a week, and I saw him and some other military chaps handing Mrs. Highflyer to her carriage after the play."
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

My compassion was excited by the recollection of our former friendship, and I sent him a sum of money.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In the midst of the gloom of the spiral staircase, he elbowed something which drew aside with a growl; he took it for granted that it was Quasimodo, and it struck him as so droll that he descended the remainder of the staircase holding his sides with laughter.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

And I shall have a son."
— from The Truce of God by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Thus set apart, it can be virtually denied existence under colour of according it special honour, and so far removed from every vital interest that it will die of its isolation.
— from Decadence, and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas by Remy de Gourmont

Of the haughty and supercilious manners which made Lady Montreville feared and disliked, she had communicated no portion to her younger daughter; and if she had acquired something of the family pride, her good sense, and the sweetness of her temper, had so much corrected it, that it was by no means displeasing.
— from Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle by Charlotte Smith

The next hill in the east is Treyford Hill, above Treyford village, whose church tower, standing on a little hill of its own nearly three hundred feet high, might take a lesson in beauty from South Harting's, although its spire has a slenderness not to be improved.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

Yet there were moments when Barb felt as if she had almost surprised the city's secret, caught it unaware, as it were, and half ashamed, slipping into its holy of holies.
— from Sylvia Arden Decides by Margaret Piper Chalmers

Cousin Edith tried to look as though she still wondered if Jasmine was really human, and all she got for her desire to be agreeable was to be asked if she had a stiff neck.
— from Rich Relatives by Compton MacKenzie

On reaching her home, the home she must so soon resign, Katherine sent a note to Rachel Trant asking if she had a spare hour that evening, as she, Katherine, had something to tell her, and preferred going to her house.
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

When all men were looking for a decisive blow to be struck, he suddenly renewed the negociations; and when the truce lulled the allies into security, he as suddenly recommenced hostilities.
— from The Thirty Years War — Volume 04 by Friedrich Schiller

With all her relatives she maintained the affectionate intercourse she had always supported; though not even to her aunt did the name of Denbigh pass her lips.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper