The fixed and unchanging features of the country also perpetuate the memory of the friend with whom we once enjoyed them, who was the companion of our most retired walks, and gave animation to every lonely scene.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

And strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried— "Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?" LXI.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

We may infer from this that under the two first dynasties laws were made by individuals, and that each lord, so to speak, made his own.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

He made a law, that the Upland people should resort to this Thing, and that Eidsvold laws should be good through all the districts of the Uplands, and wide around in other quarters, which also has taken place.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

She laughed at the ludicrous absurdity she observed, till, recollecting, that the hands, which had wove it, were, like the poet, whose thoughts of fire they had attempted to express, long since mouldered into dust, a train of melancholy ideas passed over her mind, and she almost wept.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"Now this won't do," said John, hardening his heart against the engaging little sinner.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

" 247 In June, as the expected little stranger had arrived safe, Miss Anthony accepted an invitation to deliver the Fourth of July address at Ottumwa, and then went through her inevitable agony whenever she had a speech to prepare.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Their necks were thrust forward and with soft movements continually wavered to and fro like water lilies; a thousand eyes like stars glittered upon Zosia.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

They went back to camp, and starting soon after sunrise the next morning they reached a settlement on the railroad after a comparatively easy journey; and that evening Lisle stood with a heavy heart beside the track while the big cars moved away, his eyes fixed on a woman’s figure that leaned out from a vestibule platform, waving a hand to him.
— from The Long Portage by Harold Bindloss

It sets me to thinkin', and that empty larder stares me in the face.
— from Storm-Bound; or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts by Douglas, Alan, Captain

We were so close to the African shore that we could see the occasional town, the lonely farm, the lonelier fort or monastery, very distinctly; and the little unfenced, unshaped patches of tillage scratched out of the wilderness, and the little roadways meandering through the gaps of the crowding rock-ranges, otherwise so savagely desolate; and the evening lights sparsely scattered along the shore, and the early morning camp-fires on the seaward declivities, so high up and isolated as to suggest the fastnesses of the pirates of bygone days.
— from The Retrospect by Ada Cambridge

and again the eager light shone in Ham's eyes.
— from The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49 by Everett McNeil

I'm—I'm addicted to 'em, like some people are to booze.
— from Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler

We further declare that we are exclusively a Protestant Association; yet, detesting as we do, any intolerant spirit, we solemnly pledge ourselves to each other, that we will not persecute, injure, or upbraid any person on account of his religious opinions, PROVIDED THE SAME BE NOT HOSTILE TO THE STATE ; but that we will, on the contrary, be aiding and assisting' to every loyal subject, of every religious description, in protecting him from violence and oppression.
— from Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

The very sensual tone of Greek life rendered the modern notion of prolonged continence wholly alien to their thoughts; and the extremely low social and intellectual condition of Greek mothers, who exercised no appreciable influence over the habits of thought of the nation should also, I think, be taken into account, for it has always been observed that mothers are much more distinguished than fathers for their affection for infants that have not yet manifested the first dawning of reason.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

He looked, indeed, exhausted, as the electric light smote his thin face; his eyes glowed like fire fed by metal, and his breath came short.
— from A Singular Life by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps