When the movement commences, we shall draw some men after us and let others follow; others again will be swept into the current, and the last will be thrust after us.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

God willing, I will check this vain repining,’ she said, while the tears coursed one another down her cheeks in spite of her efforts; but she wiped them away, and resolutely shaking back her head, continued, ‘I will exert myself, and look out for a small house, commodiously situated in some populous but healthy district, where we will take a few young ladies to board and educate—if we can get them—and as many day pupils as will come, or as we can manage to instruct.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

"Next door"; and he looked up and laughed outright, for Jo's prim manner was rather funny when he remembered how they had chatted about cricket when he brought the cat home.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

As soon as I saw them shipped and gone, I took two guns upon my shoulders, and two pistols in my girdle, and my great sword by my side without a scabbard, and with all the speed I was able to make went away to the hill where I had discovered the first appearance of all; and as soon as I got thither, which was not in less than two hours (for I could not go quickly, being so loaded with arms as I was), I perceived there had been three canoes more of the savages at that place; and looking out farther, I saw they were all at sea together, making over for the main.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

My fates long since by Thetis were disclosed, And each alternate, life or fame, proposed; Here, if I stay, before the Trojan town, Short is my date, but deathless my renown: If I return, I quit immortal praise For years on years, and long-extended days.
— from The Iliad by Homer

A suit in law at its production, birth, and first beginning, seemeth to me, as unto your other worships, shapeless, without form or fashion, incomplete, ugly and imperfect, even as a bear at his first coming into the world hath neither hands, skin, hair, nor head, but is merely an inform, rude, and ill-favoured piece and lump of flesh, and would remain still so, if his dam, out of the abundance of her affection to her hopeful cub, did not with much licking put his members into that figure and shape which nature had provided for those of an arctic and ursinal kind; ut not. Doct.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

He rose once to the surface in a lather of foam and blood and then sank again for good.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

" She started to her feet, and came close up to me with a look of fury.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

An eminent French author, of great knowledge in matters of political economy, the Abbe Morellet, gives a list of fifty-five joint-stock companies for foreign trade, which have been established in different parts of Europe since the year 1600, and which, according to him, have all failed from mismanagement, notwithstanding they had exclusive privileges.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

A lad of fourteen, with a bright, keen face, had obeyed the summons of the manager.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

(continued) The Warbler family, Sylviidae , is a large one, found all through the Eastern Hemisphere.
— from An Australian Bird Book: A Pocket Book for Field Use by John Albert Leach

She lifted her head, and a look of fire, almost of fierceness, came into her face, but she only said, with a little hysterical cry, as if her throat were swelling: "Come to me to-morrow, David!
— from The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir

XXIX The following political year was a lively one for Hamilton, perhaps the liveliest of his career.
— from The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Just go and look out for her.
— from Problematic Characters: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Their habits do not seem to be well understood, but it appears certain that the Sea Lamprey ( Petromyzum marinus ), which reaches a length of from one to two feet, ascends rivers to spawn, while the smaller River Lamprey ( P. fluviatilis ) has been caught in the sea; and it is probable that the migrations of both, together with the sojourn of the young of the former for a longer or shorter period in fresh waters, have been the cause of the widespread confusion between species.
— from The Sea Shore by William S. Furneaux

Her discourse was much with the great men and ladies of France in praise of the people and of the country; of their courage, generosity, good nature; and would excuse all their miscarriages in relation to unfortunate effects of the late war, as if it were a convulsion of some desperate and infatuated persons, rather than from the genius and temper of the kingdom" ("Memoirs of Sir John Reresby," ed.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

Mrs. Maclean was a lover of flowers, and the little court-yard before her house was really gay with its golden marigolds, its pink and white artemisias, and its purple dahlias.
— from Aunt Kitty's Tales by Maria J. (Maria Jane) McIntosh

[Aside] Each hath his place and function to attend: I am left out; for me nothing remains.
— from The First Part of Henry the Sixth by William Shakespeare

Beyond rose the walls of La Fère, whose grey outlines, lit up here and there by the flare of a lamp or fire, were clearly visible in the bright moonlight.
— from The Chevalier d'Auriac by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats

I would like to have read the paper you told me of; but I fear the Manhattan is dead beyond resurrection—and, by the way, Richard Grant White has departed to that land which is ruled by absolute silence, and in which a law of fair play, unrecognized by our publishers, doth prevail.
— from The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1 by Elizabeth Bisland