“'Do not be afraid, papa,' said the apparition.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Price of the 67th Regiment, and was soon replaced by fifty marines under the command of a man widely known in the service to which he belonged as "Public-spirited" Smith.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

“It was muddy before, now it will be a perfect swamp.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Starting from his couch, the unsuspecting prince threw himself into the arms of his enemy, who had contrived his escape by a private staircase.
— 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

‘Ah! You are the defendant, Sir, in Bardell and Pickwick?’ said Dodson.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

It was situated against the back of the cottage and surrounded on the sides which were exposed by a pig sty and a clear pool of water.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He then stationed his military engines near the wall, and having in a short time partly broken and partly shaken down a large piece of it, he led his army near, that the men might enter wherever the wall had been thrown down or shaken.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

He was a reglar shepherd—or ruther he was part bull and part shepherd—splendid animal; belonged to parson Hagar before Uncle Lem got him.
— from Roughing It, Part 6. by Mark Twain

Bengal alone produces such large crops that they are quite sufficient to provide all the population of Hindustan for two years .
— from Young India An interpretation and a history of the nationalist movement from within by Lala Lajpat Rai

By making the most of his thyme, and by always putting some celery in the bank.
— from My Book of Indoor Games by Clarence Squareman

On Christmas Day in 1621, those who had recently arrived at Plymouth in the ship Fortune entertained themselves with pitching the bar and playing stoolball, but at noon Governor Bradford appeared and ordered them to stop "gameing or revelling in the street."
— from Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow

Sunthon Phu was an important poet long ago who had risen from humble parents to become a private secretary for King Rama II because of his literary abilities.
— from Corpus of a Siam Mosquito by Steven David Justin Sills

Mr. Eliot closed the debate by answering some objections to the bill, and presenting some official documents proving the beneficent results of the bureau, especially in the State of Kentucky.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

And Hodder's eye, sweeping over the decorous congregation, grew to recognize certain landmarks: Eldon Parr, rigid at one end of his empty pew; little Everett Constable, comfortably, but always pompously settled at one end of his, his white-haired and distinguished-looking wife at the other.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

It will be a pretty severe test for our observer's telescope, the components being only 2"·4 apart, and the smaller scarcely exceeding the eighth magnitude.
— from Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor