There was the old house too, which they would pass every day, looking up at the tiny window through which the sun used to stream in and wake him on the summer mornings—they were all summer mornings then—and climbing up the garden-wall and looking over, Nicholas could see the very rose-bush which had come, a present to Kate, from some little lover, and she had planted with her own hands.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Well then will I have ado with him to the utterance, and so he purveyed him and rode against him.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

And so we gave him our hands, one after another—at least, they did—and I did; and so he put his lips to Ada's hand—and to mine; and so he went away upon his long, long voyage!
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In a few words, hurriedly, but with a sort of joy and pride, she explained to me that she had been to a dance somewhere in a private house, a family of "very nice people, who knew nothing , absolutely nothing, for she had only come here so lately and it had all happened ... and she hadn't made up her mind to stay and was certainly going away as soon as she had paid her debt ... and at that party there had been the student who had danced with her all the evening.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pat her on the head, and see how pleased she’ll be!’
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Then he raised the head of the sick woman, and smoothed her pillow.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Harris said he had had quite a fight with these two swans; but courage and skill had prevailed in the end, and he had defeated them.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

His jocose humour, his courage and strength, his power from the rank he has amongst others, may inspire me with sentiments of this kind, but still inner respect for him is wanting.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

On the whole, if one may use a somewhat hyperbolical phrase, I think it has been said of Philip with very great propriety, that his beneficent policy had made him “The darling of all Greece.”
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

He so thoroughly mystified the girl by his technical references to northern and southern hemispheres, polar directions, revolving air-currents, external circumferences, and diminished atmospheric pressures, that she was too bewildered to reiterate a desire to visit the bridge.
— from The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy

Whenever I gave out that I was one by honours, she always said it was no such thing; and she downright scolded, when after she had played an ace I played a king; or when she had trumped first and I made all sure by trumping too.
— from Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

And so his plan may be of greater benefit than first appears.”
— from The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt

Nevertheless, the shirts and several other necessaries, such as stockings and pocket-handkerchiefs, were placed for my use on my father's sea-chest, in my room, without any comment on her part, although she had paid for them out of her own purse.
— from Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat

It taught that the earth is a plane, and the sky a vault above it, in which the stars are fixed, and the sun, moon, and planets perform their motions, rising and setting; that these bodies are altogether of a subordinate nature, their use being to give light to man; that still higher and beyond the vault of the sky is heaven, the abode of God and the angelic hosts; that in six days the earth, and all that it contains, were made; that it was overwhelmed by a universal deluge, which destroyed all living things save those preserved in the ark, the waters being subsequently dried up by the wind; that man is the moral centre of the world; for him all things were created and are sustained; that, so far as his ever having shown any tendency to improvement, he has fallen both in [316] wisdom and worth, the first man, before his sin, having been perfect in body and soul: hence Patristicism ever looked backward, never forward; that through that sin death came into the world; not even any animal had died previously, but all had been immortal.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

Though Curtis Clayton had visited Sloan Jasper for the express purpose of uttering a warning against Sibyl, he permitted Jasper to talk on, and the warning words remained unsaid.
— from Justin Wingate, Ranchman by John Harvey Whitson

The semblance of a smile has passed: The year departing leaves more nigh Time's fearfullest and last.
— from Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform, Complete Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

In this popular sense the words Genus and Species have passed into common discourse.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill

The sternest teacher of all had brought to her the knowledge that comes of grief, of terror, and of death, and she had passed beyond her years, just as the cumulative processes of generations made the Indian children pass beyond theirs.
— from The Honor of the Big Snows by James Oliver Curwood

There are still, however, plenty of saucy wenches—of doubtful morality—in the more crowded and fashionable thoroughfares, who present the passengers with moss-roses, and violets.
— from A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley