All present were astonished when she appeared not only to hear a whistle, but also an ordinary tone of voice.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

I am afraid to see a newspaper, or to hear a word spoken of what is done in London, lest he should have done some violence.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Then suddenly they heard, far away as it might be, and yet apparently nearly over their heads, a confused murmur of sound, as if people were shouting and cheering and stamping on the floor and hammering on tables.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Another nomenclature of the Holy Trinity is, Might, Wisdom, Goodness: one Love; but that of Might, Wisdom, Love (employed by Abelard, Aquinas, and the Schoolmen generally) is the usual one, while Truth, Wisdom, Love, is employed in reference to that Image of God wherein Man is made: for man has not created might : his might is all in the uncreated might of God.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

"Bot it is otherwise of ane tame and dantoned horse; gif any man fulishlie rides, and be sharp spurres compelles his horse to take the water, and the man drownes, the horse sould not be escheit, for that comes be the mans fault or trespasse, and not of the horse, and the man has receaved his punishment, in sa farre as he is perished and dead; and the horse quha did na fault, sould not be escheit.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I loved my father's dogs, the frisky little calf, the gentle cows, the horses and mules that ate apples from my hand, and none of them had ever harmed me.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

Here had been several lures thrown out, and neither of them had uttered a word.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

A nation of two hundred thousand soldiers might have smiled at the vain menace of Justinian and his lieutenant: but a spirit of discord and disaffection prevailed in Italy, and the Goths supported, with reluctance, the indignity of a female reign.
— 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

On the other hand, the coldest parts of the moon's surface, when the sun has only just risen after a night of three hundred and forty hours, must have a temperature more than a hundred degrees below zero.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various

[3] He sat within a silent cave, apart From men, upon a chair of diamond stone; Words he had not, companions he had none, But steadfastly pursued his thoughtful art; And as he mused he pulled a slender string Which evermore within his hand he held; And the dim curtain rose which had concealed His thoughts, the city of the immortal king: There, pictured in its solemn pomp, it lay A glorious country stretching round about, And through its golden gates passed in and out Men of all nations, on their heavenly way.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

But for our dinner let us agree not only to have a modest and inexpensive feast but to break up in good time, for we are not Catos that our enemies cannot censure us without praising us in the same breath.
— from The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 by the Younger Pliny

The Names, and Trades, and number of the Houses burnt vpon the Bridg, heere you may see vnder nethe.— “‘1.
— from Chronicles of London Bridge by Richard Thompson

The names Kokosinski, Kulvyets, Ranitski, Rekuts, and others fell from his lips one after another; a number of times he mentioned Volodyovski.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

The words, audible to many of the bystanders, the contemptuous tone, and nod of the head in the direction of the ever-increasing group on the bank, deepened the prevailing indignation.
— from In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford

They ask no one to have faith or to believe without evidence.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 08 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

He accompanied his little word of civility with a brief, automatic nod of the head.
— from The Hidden Force: A Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus

The scribe means to say that Ḥaiabni-ilu, who was a neighbor, owned the house of Immarum.
— from Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

And of the names and numbers of the hosts of the Achaians and the Trojans.
— from The Iliad by Homer