[Rev. 19:9] There came out also at this time to meet them, several of the King's trumpeters, clothed in white and shining raiment, who, with melodious noises, and loud, made even the heavens to echo with their sound.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

At last she put her apron down, and looking me earnestly in the face, asked, “Was that the reason Miss Matty wouldn’t order a pudding to-day?
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

“I always smoke this sort, gentlemen; they are a little more expensive, but you’ll learn, in this climate, that you’d better not economize on poor cigars.”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Well could he narrate: in such a diction as children love, and learned men emulate; a diction simple in its strength, and strong in its simplicity.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

That comes of having big blue eyes and loving music," said Jo, trying to soothe Beth, who trembled, and looked more excited than she had ever been before.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Pray, sit downe then; and let me entreate you,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He compared himself, as I went on, to a lost man emerging from the darkness into the light.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

‘She is pale though, and looks much exhausted.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Here it was, he told me, that he saw for the first time that mortal enemy of the human race, and here, too, for the first time he declared to her his passion, as honourable as it was devoted, and here it was that at last Marcela ended by scorning and rejecting him so as to bring the tragedy of his wretched life to a close; here, in memory of misfortunes so great, he desired to be laid in the bowels of eternal oblivion.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

To write a commentary on Homer is not my present aim; but if I have made Pope's translation a little more entertaining and instructive to a mass of miscellaneous readers, I shall consider my wishes satisfactorily accomplished.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Very many of my readers may have their future fortunes cast in that land of wonders, and let me entreat them to remember the immense responsibility which rests on their shoulders.
— from Mark Seaworth by William Henry Giles Kingston

The slight bustle of making sail on the boats, combined with the novelty of their situation, was sufficient to rouse all hands; and a few minutes after the boats were fairly under weigh, the ladies and little May emerged from their quarters in the stern-sheets of the launch.
— from The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific by Harry Collingwood

By the former, the material taken into the cell in the form of food is built up into cell tissue, such as linin, microsomes, etc., and, by the latter, these products are to a greater or less extent broken to pieces again to liberate their energy, and thus give rise to the activities of the cell.
— from The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn

Sometimes Andrey would suggest with a twinkle in his eyes: "Shall we read a little, mother, eh?"
— from Mother by Maksim Gorky

"I would have explained yesterday, but I had no understanding of the situation here until our anthropologist, Lola Montandon, elucidated it very laboriously to me.
— from The Galaxy Primes by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

So I gave him a little more eau-de-vie, and he took it most submissively.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Many's the time I've begged Willie to quit it and get a little house out in the country, with a bit of green grass and maybe a flower bed and a little garden and a porch, and maybe a chicken yard, and let me end my days in peace, out of the sound of crowds and yellin' maniacs.
— from Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant by Hugh S. (Hugh Stuart) Fullerton

Who were able to rid the world of loitering and laziness might easily frustrate and disappoint Cupid of all his designs, aims, engines, and devices, and so disable and appal him that his bow, quiver, and darts should from thenceforth be a mere needless load and burden to him, for that it could not then lie in his power to strike or wound any of either sex with all the arms he had.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

—And they die more easily, and live more easily; I have a cat.
— from Savva and the Life of Man: Two plays by Leonid Andreyev by Leonid Andreyev