She tried to say something, but her voice refused to utter any sound; with a guilty and imploring glance at the old man she went with light, swift steps up the stairs.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And Balkis the Most Beautiful said, ‘O my Lord and Treasure of my Soul, what will you do?’
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

The parent form of any two or more species would not be in all its characters directly intermediate between its modified offspring, any more than the rock-pigeon is directly intermediate in crop and tail between its descendants, the pouter and fantail pigeons.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

It must, however, be acknowledged, that the conduct of the emperors who appeared the least favorable to the primitive church, is by no means so criminal as that of modern sovereigns, who have employed the arm of violence and terror against the religious opinions of any part of their subjects.
— 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

As they advanced to meet one another I saw for the first time a trick of Martian swordsmanship which centered Kantos Kan's every hope of victory and life on one cast of the dice, for, as he came to within about twenty feet of the huge fellow he threw his sword arm far behind him over his shoulder and with a mighty sweep hurled his weapon point foremost at the green warrior.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

"Oddly enough, sir, precisely the same as that of Mr. Sipperley when I was enabled to be of assistance to him.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

In the midst of a time of monastic splendour, when monks of St. Benedict and even monks of Cluny rode abroad like knights or {7} princes, Stephen Harding’s household were separate from the world in all sincerity.
— from Fountains Abbey: The story of a mediæval monastery by George Hodges

And the old man said, "What shall be."
— from Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset by Arthur Christopher Benson

Presently she became so absorbed that once more she was surprised by the quiet approach of Mrs. Ellison.
— from The Law of the Land Of Miss Lady, Whom It Involved in Mystery, and of John Eddring, Gentleman of the South, Who Read Its Deeper Meaning: A Novel by Emerson Hough

"You express so much alarm that one might suppose we were living in a convent, where it is a crime to speak of love and marriage.
— from Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Crystals of sugar form white masses like rock candy, but with a taste of maple sugar, wherever a break in the bark of a sugar pine permits the escape of the sweet sap.
— from Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers

He told Jacob Nowell all that it was possible for him to tell about his interview with Marian; and the old man seemed warmly interested in the subject.
— from Fenton's Quest by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

So perished UC 29, and thus one more submarine was added to the score of this gallant captain and crew.
— from Q-Ships and Their Story by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton

One day my pappy come home and tell us all that the Creek done sign up to quit the War, and that old Master send word that we all free now and can take up some land for our own selves or just stay where we is if we want to.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration