“Aye, do, Frank.—Go and fetch Miss Bates, and let us end the matter at once.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

At the sound of this name, Maggie, who was seated on a low stool close by the fire, with a large book open on her lap, shook her heavy hair back and looked up eagerly.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Let the toast pass, &c. For let 'em be clumsy, or let 'em be slim, Young or ancient, I care not a feather; So fill a pint bumper quite up to the brim, So fill up your glasses, nay, fill to the brim, And let us e'en toast them together.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

No measure would become a law until expressly sanctioned by Parliament; and Parliament, or either house, would have the power not only of rejecting but of sending back a bill to the commission for reconsideration or improvement.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

She rose up, with her hand in Alan's, and nestled close to his breast, and looked up earnestly and lovingly into his eyes.
— from Barren Honour: A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

And we must see that Peter cannot, by any latitude of interpretation, be reckoned now among those to whom the awful duty is assigned of binding and loosing upon earth.
— from Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by James Endell Tyler

Be the philosophy what and whose it may, the poem revived to the latest age of poetry the phenomenon of the first, when precept and maxim were modulated into verse, that they might write themselves in every brain, and live upon every tongue.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

With the earliest rays of dawn he went back to the forest to see whether he could find any traces of the Yara, but though he searched every clump of bushes, and looked up every tree, everything was empty, and the only voices he heard were those of parrots, which are so ugly that they only drive people away.
— from The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

There was no harbor within sight, no river outlet, but a long, uninterrupted extent of high, wooded shores.
— from Cord and Creese by James De Mille

Pappy used to cotch so many sometimes he jest put 'em in a box and let us eat 'em when us got ready.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

It seemed as if he never would stop, but at last, utterly exhausted and out of breath and all used up, he waited for a reply.
— from Memories and Anecdotes by Kate Sanborn

Besides, dear, I still should be a little uneasy, even though I have your promise, lest somebody should snap you up away from me.’
— from A Changed Man, and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy