After a time, he appeared again, smiling, and said that every room was ready and as clean as a new pin.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

They assembled then a numerous Thing, and Sigurd the earl recommended Hakon's cause to the Thing, and proposed him to the bondes as king.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

By adhering strictly to every rule of his order save Chastity, He doubted not to retain the esteem of Men, and even the protection of heaven.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

So he got out of the fury of the panic, and, skirting the Edgware Road, reached Edgware about seven, fasting and wearied, but well ahead of the crowd.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

No one will confess the errors he was taught in his school days No one can show a dead man a good time One could do a man no graver injury than to call him a dancer Platitudes by which anguished minds are recalled to sanity Priests, animated by an hypocritical mania for prophecy Propensity of pouring one’s personal troubles into another’s ear Putting as good a face upon the matter as I could Religions responsible for the most abominable actions Remarkable resemblance to each other are the Bible and Homer Rumor but grows in the telling and strives to embellish Russia there is a sect called the skoptzi See or hear nothing at all of the affairs of every-day life
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

"Aye, sir," the engineer replied.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Of birds they eat quails and ducks and small birds without cooking, after first curing them; and everything else which they have belonging to the class of birds or fishes, except such as have been set apart by them as sacred, they eat roasted or boiled.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

At Rennes in Brittany, where the historical Bertrand de Moleville is Intendant, it has passed from fatal continual duelling, between the military and gentry, to street-fighting; to stone-volleys and musket-shot: and still the Edicts remained unregistered.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

More than a year had passed away since the events recorded in the last chapter.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

‘But he’ll be in town between six and seven this evening,’ replied Newman.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

On all sides the eye rested on long fields of oats, or barley, or Indian maize.
— from Prisons Over Seas Deportation and Colonization; British and American Prisons of To-day by Arthur Griffiths

It was when the japan wares, so called from the attempt of the makers to copy the lacquers of Japan then much imported, were being successfully made amidst surroundings then exceedingly romantic in the little town singularly situated on a steep cliff overhanging the Avon Llwyd, that dealers found trays, breadbaskets, snuffer trays, knife trays, caddies, and urns much in request.
— from Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess

It is the custom in our army for heavy cavalry to break the line, and the light cavalry to dash in, pursue, and sabre the enemy right and left while they are all in confusion, and before they have time to re-form.
— from The Young Dragoon: Every Day Life of a Soldier by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

The voice of the peón , in spite of his stammering and his panting with fatigue, seemed to pierce the walls and scatter through every room as he pronounced this name.
— from The Blood of the Arena by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

The Esperance headed for it, and presently there were breakers to port and starboard, the engine rumbled, down below, and the yacht lifted and fell more violently than ordinary.
— from Creatures of the Abyss by Murray Leinster

The Whigs got a majority in the new Parliament, which met in the winter of 1701-2, and showed themselves enthusiastically ready for a war with France.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

Whenever we halted, Keor used to spend much loving care over his bandoliers of ammunition, seeing that each round was clean and not too loose in its leather loop.
— from A Kut Prisoner by Harry Coghill Watson Bishop