To be sure he looks forward to the approach of night to make up for all these discomforts on the bed that awaits him, which, unless by some fault of his, never sins by being over narrow, for he can easily measure out on the ground as he likes, and roll himself about in it to his heart's content without any fear of the sheets slipping away from him.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I expect they talked of nothing else but me and no doubt Avdotya Romanovna heard all those dark mysterious rumours that were current about me....
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

After the first few bites, those greedy fish found out that the wood was not good for their teeth, and, afraid of indigestion, they turned and ran here and there without saying good-by or even as much as thank you to me.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

At once his arms and coursers he requires; Then, with a leap, his lofty chariot gains, And with a ready hand assumes the reins.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

He heard about it, and knows your lady, and remembers her abroad.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Holland has also renewed her ancient dealings with the country, and ratified a treaty during the present year [105] (1862).
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

The Pagans had disappeared; the Jews were silent and obscure; the disputes with the Latins were rare and remote hostilities against a national enemy; and the sects of Egypt and Syria enjoyed a free toleration under the shadow of the Arabian caliphs.
— 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

I pointed out to my darling how this could scarcely be, because Mr. Woodcourt had come to her cousin John's house and had known us all there, and because he had always liked Richard, and Richard had always liked him, and—and so forth.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Three years ago, this was nothing but a rough hedgerow along the upper side of the field, never thought of as anything, or capable of becoming anything; and now it is converted into a walk, and it would be difficult to say whether most valuable as a convenience or an ornament; and perhaps, in another three years, we may be forgetting—almost forgetting what it was before.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

They are ravenously hungry, and the food is of such excellence that it makes a visitor feel as if he would like to sit down too.
— from Some Naval Yarns by Mordaunt Hall

After having described the proud and philosophical suicides of ancient Rome, he adds:— There is another species of suicide more in credit in our days, which is rather occasioned by the weakness and impatience of men than by the violence of their passions, or the eccentricity of their philosophies.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various

She arrived at “Silverfern” in the charge of a Jewish clerk, and the Abrahams received her as an afflicted orphan, committed to Frankl by her father; she, like Rebekah, to go under their care.
— from The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

As he kissed her, she turned her head towards his shoulder, and raised her arm towards his neck; cried out ‘Father!
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

He brought me across swampy fields to a ruined house, and there, at that point, recollection ceases—memory fades away in a confused whirl, none of which are sufficiently distinct for the mind to grasp and reason upon.”
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer

Mac opened his mouth to say something more, when a sneeze came upon him unawares, and a loud “Ah rash hoo!” awoke the echoes of the quiet house.
— from Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

Women had, undoubtedly, always occupied a large share of Byron's time and thoughts; but expressions in Childe Harold gave rise to the report that he had maintained a regular harem at Newstead—the harem appearing as a matter of fact to have consisted of one odalisque.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England by Georg Brandes

He listened, he suggested, he put in an acute remark here, an argument there, such as the squire had often difficulty in meeting.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.