Ellen, I’ve been very happy with my little Cathy: through winter nights and summer days she was a living hope at my side.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

What time in years and judgement we repos'd, Shall not so easily be to change dispos'd, [page 116] 80 Nor to the art of severall eyes obeying; But beauty with true worth securely weighing, Which being found assembled in some one, Wee'l love her ever, and love her alone.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

So Anileus took the government upon himself alone, and led his army against the villages of Mithridates, who was a man of principal authority in Parthia, and had married king Artabanus's daughter; he also plundered them, and among that prey was found much money, and many slaves, as also a great number of sheep, and many other things, which, when gained, make men's condition happy.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why it is that women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men do, and so treat them with more kindness and interest; and why it is that, on the contrary, they are inferior to men in point of justice, and less honorable and conscientious.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

She had blue eyes and light hair, and an expression of childish simplicity which was charming indeed.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

When the school teacher had run away and left him alone, he walked up and down the office swearing furiously.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

She was as much convinced of his meaning to gain Anne in time as of his deserving her, and was beginning to calculate the number of weeks which would free him from all the remaining restraints of widowhood, and leave him at liberty to exert his most open powers of pleasing.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

But at last he arrived at the partition dividing the aftercabin, and found the door opening into the magazine itself.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

SICILY AFTER REBELLING AGAINST KING CHARLES AND THE YOUTH BEING RECOGNIZED BY HIS MOTHER, HE ESPOUSETH HIS LORD'S DAUGHTER, AND HIS BROTHER BEING LIKEWISE FOUND, THEY ARE ALL THREE RESTORED TO HIGH ESTATE Ladies and young men alike laughed heartily at Andreuccio's adventures, as related by Fiammetta, and
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

At last, however, all the things that had to be got together were got together, and all the things that had to be got out of the way were got out of the way, and everything was ready, and the collector himself having promised to come, fortune smiled upon the occasion.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Her uncle turned quickly, surprised and a little hurt at the pettishness of her tone.
— from Highacres by Jane Abbott

At last he and Dave Sanders would settle accounts.
— from Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine

The inevitable bottle of "pop" neither of us was able to open until the foreman came along and lent his assistance.
— from The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson

It was a long time before the doctor spoke; but at length he arose and laid some pieces of silver in Tiny’s hand; and he said, “I cannot help you.
— from My First Cruise, and Other stories by William Henry Giles Kingston

The chief men are located here, and never in the history of criminal doings was such a dangerous lot at work."
— from Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist; Or, Dudie Dunne Again in the Field by Old Sleuth

If the king of all the Goths would only stick up a lighthouse here and there along the edge of his Arctic seaboard, he would save many an honest fellow a heart-ache.
— from Letters from High Latitudes Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 of the Schooner Yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

They subsisted upon fish and game and the products of a limited horticulture, and were in the Lower Status of barbarism.
— from Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis Henry Morgan

Haguna laughed, a low musical laugh, yet with an indescribable impersonality in it,—as if a spring brook had just then leaped over a little hill, and were laughing mockingly to itself at its exploit.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

"I saw a little hill as we came here," said Jessie; "let's try and find it and look out for help.
— from A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 by Clacy, Charles, Mrs.