The south front had a large projecting half-circle, with three windows in it and a window on each side of the half-circle; this formed the drawing room below and my uncle’s bedroom, and two dressing rooms above.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The walls, fallen to decay during the security of a long peace, had been hastily repaired on this sudden emergency: but the firmest defence of Aquileia consisted in the constancy of the citizens; all ranks of whom, instead of being dismayed, were animated by the extreme danger, and their knowledge of the tyrant's unrelenting temper.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

There is therefore only one reasonable course open to me; I must make him accountable for his own actions, I must at least preserve him from being taken unawares, and I must show him plainly the dangers which beset his path.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mr. Merriman said that Mr. Arobin's remark about inquisitive people reminded him of a man from Waco the other day at the St. Charles Hotel—but as Mr. Merriman's stories were always lame and lacking point, his wife seldom permitted him to complete them.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

But although he had the shape of a man there was a queer bullfrog look about his face, so that the girl’s family hated him and at last persuaded her to send him away.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

A. “ x′ y .” &c., &c. After a little practice, he will find himself able to do without the blank Diagram, and will be able to see it mentally (“in my mind’s eye, Horatio!”) while answering the questions of his genial friend.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

This fine comparison has reference to Fred Vincy, who on that evening at Lowick Parsonage heard a lively discussion among the ladies on the news which their old servant had got from Tantripp concerning Mr. Casaubon's strange mention of Mr. Ladislaw in a codicil to his will made not long before his death.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

she none; And in a loftier phrase he talk’d With her, upon their Wedding-Day, (The eighth), while through the fields they walk’d, Their children shouting by the way.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

The foolish youth who is the victim of others is to have a lighter punishment; he whose folly is occasioned by his own jealousy or desire or anger is to suffer more heavily.
— from Laws by Plato

When a writer sets to work again after a long pause, his faculties have, as it were, to be caught in the field and brought in and harnessed.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

On Friday night he took a liver pill, his side hurt him rather, and though it was not the liver side, there is no remedy like that.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery by John Galsworthy

After a long pause, he whispered: "They have died as my father died . . .
— from The Woman of Mystery by Maurice Leblanc

What a tide there was pouring into the lad's own mind at the time, and what a little power had he to check it!
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

He turned his weary eyes from face to face, Nor noted them, as at a lagging pace He gat towards home, and still was murmuring, "Ah life, sweet life!
— from The Earthly Paradise: A Poem (Part II) by William Morris

Thus, by slow degrees, the artful monk ingratiated himself with the Imperial family, just as years ago, when a mere cabdriver, in his pre-saintly days, he happened to ingratiate himself with Alexis, Bishop of Kazan, who became greatly struck with him, and later pushed him forward as a holy man, yet for his trouble afterwards found himself swept away, and his successor appointed by Rasputin's own hand.
— from The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by William Le Queux

Around three sides of this box ran a little platform, heavily gilded.
— from The Clock and the Key by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Vesey

A letter post had been established in the Hanse towns in the thirteenth century, but the actual commencement of such activities dates from the year 1516.
— from The American Postal Service History of the Postal Service from the Earliest Times by Louis Melius

I have just been talking to poor dear Lady Ellersby, who is, between ourselves, become more than ever thick, and indolent—she actually cannot understand any thing consecutively ; however, I have, I think, at last put her in a right track upon the subject which I must now discuss with you."
— from The Exclusives (vol. 2 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

Such an extraordinary sign of confidence was received by the orator as a highly favorable omen; and though the animal retreated a little precipitately, he was lavish of his thanks and commendations.
— from The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Then there was another low, piteous howling.
— from The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn