Mr Boffin, submitting to be led on tiptoe to the nursery door, looked in with immense satisfaction, although there was nothing to see but Bella in a musing state of happiness, seated in a little low chair upon the hearth, with her child in her fair young arms, and her soft eyelashes shading her eyes from the fire.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

As Christ in the parable of the rich young man demands the abandonment of all treasures, so in this book the poet sees the coming of the Kingdom, the fulfilment of all our longings for a nearness to God when we have become simple again like little children and poor in possessions like God Himself.
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

There, all is order and loveliness, Luxury, calm and voluptuousness.
— from The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail, And the fire of the end begin to burn in the west; And the heart shall be weary and wonder and cry like the sea, All life long crying without avail, As the water all night long is crying to me.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Before breakfast, a walk with Sir Pitt and his spud; after breakfast studies (such as they are) in the schoolroom; after schoolroom, reading and writing about lawyers, leases, coal-mines, canals, with Sir Pitt (whose secretary I am become); after dinner, Mr. Crawley's discourses on the baronet's backgammon; during both of which amusements my lady looks on with equal placidity.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

It was held by the leader of the Huns, who at this period held power on the Caspian: it was also held by the Urus, Khuzr, Bulgar, Serir, all terms for Russia, before its Kaisar was cut down into Tzar , for the original of which, the kings of Rome, as of Russia, were indebted to the Sanskrit Kesar , a ‘lion’ [Lat. Caesar] ( vide Ibn Haukal, art.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

If Amy had thought in a less limited circle she might have worked the thing out that if Maxwell married Anne it would narrow Murray's choice down to herself and Ethel.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

“Wy,” says the little creetur, “whoever found me, ‘ud bring me home, for I’ve got my card in my pocket, Bill,” he says, “No. 20, Coffee-room Flight”: and that wos true, sure enough, for wen he wanted to make the acquaintance of any new-comer, he used to pull out a little limp card vith them words on it and nothin’ else; in consideration of vich, he vos alvays called Number Tventy.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

A large log crackled on the hearth, and the breakfast table teemed with all the delicacies that the inn could boast of; coffee, toast, hot rolls, eggs and bacon, ham, chicken, tongue, and fresh butter.
— from Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume I by M. Y. Halidom

Over the town, the watchbird soared in a long, lazy curve.
— from Watchbird by Robert Sheckley

This freedom, indulged for some time without peril, became at last less cautious; and as no ill consequences had arisen from its practice, her scruples gradually ceased.
— from A Simple Story by Mrs. Inchbald

The American who watches eagerly some tilt in that great critical battle which has gone on for ages and has now reached our shores, is released from his slavery to the immediate and the parochial; he has ceased to flinch at the free exercise of thought; he has begun to examine his mind as his fathers examined only their conscience; he is a little less concerned for speed and a little more for direction; he is almost a philosopher and has risen from mere heated gregariousness to voluntary co-operation in a spiritual order.
— from The Book of Masks by Remy de Gourmont

"Oh, Auntie Lizzie, look," cried Millie.
— from Mrs. Bindle: Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Herbert George Jenkins

"En tierra de Moros un solo alcalde Libra lo cevil e lo criminal, E todo el dia se esta de valde For la justicia andar muy igual: Alli non es Azo, nin es Decretal, Nin es Roberto, nin la Clementina, Salvo discrecion e buena doctrina, La qual muestra a todos vevir communal."
— from The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott

"Is there some deep sea monster down there?" "Come and look, Lance," cried Dora.
— from The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna; Or, The Crew That Won by Gertrude W. Morrison