Yea, here they heard continually the singing of birds, and saw every day the flowers appear on the earth, and heard the voice of the turtle in the land.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

Yet the spectators were so smitten with her beauty, and so essential did pride seem to the existence of such a creature, that they gave a simultaneous acclamation of applause.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Yea, here they heard continually the singing of birds and saw every day the flowers appear on the earth, and heard the voice of the turtle in the land.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

So acutely did Mrs. Dashwood feel this ungracious behaviour, and so earnestly did she despise her daughter-in-law for it, that, on the arrival of the latter, she would have quitted the house for ever, had not the entreaty of her eldest girl induced her first to reflect on the propriety of going, and her own tender love for all her three children determined her afterwards to stay, and for their sakes avoid a breach with their brother.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Only by a strong effort did I recall 11A, and even then it seemed to me that it was a thing some forgotten person had told me.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A bird on the wing is not so beautiful as when it is Page 207 perched; nay, there are several of the domestic fowls which are seldom seen to fly, and which are nothing the less beautiful on that account; yet birds are so extremely different in their form from the beast and human kinds, that you cannot, on the principle of fitness, allow them anything agreeable, but in consideration of their parts being designed for quite other purposes.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

"How can that be at such enormous depth from the surface of the earth?"
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

As little is there an inherent necessity that any human being should be a selfish egotist, devoid of every feeling or care but those which centre in his own miserable individuality.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

When I returned to San Francisco I projected a pleasure journey to Japan and thence westward around the world; but a desire to see home again changed my mind, and I took a berth in the steamship, bade good-bye to the friendliest land and livest, heartiest community on our continent, and came by the way of the Isthmus to New York—a trip that was not much of a pic-nic excursion, for the cholera broke out among us on the passage and we buried two or three bodies at sea every day.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

John Jarndyce I had perhaps less reason to be surprised than either of my companions, having never yet enjoyed an opportunity of thanking one who had been my benefactor and sole earthly dependence through so many years.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

* I was disappointed, for improvement had demolished the venerated building, and stately edifices, dedicated to traffic, occupied its place.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

He reached the place where Fred Thurman lay, stood well away from the body and studied every detail closely.
— from The Quirt by B. M. Bower

Then they were turned over to Mary Burton; and she, evidently displeased at Peggy's attempt to rival her in the favor of the powerful judges, testified that she knew them not.
— from History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

"—Mrs. A. P. Rifle, 78 Niagara St., Buffalo, N. Y. "Blind 20 years from cataracts caused by a shell explosion during the civil war cured by you in three months.
— from The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various

PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE To sum up these relations of the viscera, the endocrines, the unconscious and the mind, it may be stated as a far-reaching generality for the understanding of human life: that character and conduct are expressions of the streams of energy arising in the vegetative apparatus, primarily endocrine determined at birth, and secondarily experience determined after the organism has learned to react as a whole, as consciousness.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman

By a short engagement, did he mean six months, three months, a month?
— from Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett

[5] We will first consider the methods of extracting oxygen from air as being a substance everywhere distributed.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Coals and crockery," he enumerated with slow unction, "a saucepan, a coffee-pot, a tea-pot, a broom, and some exceedingly dirty dusters.
— from Cleo The Magnificent; Or, The Muse of the Real: A Novel by Louis Zangwill

Her aunt had frequently urged her to yield to her father’s injunctions, regain her liberty, and marry Beauman; and she every day became more solicitous and impertinent .
— from Alonzo and Melissa; Or, The Unfeeling Father: An American Tale by I. (Isaac) Mitchell

According to one informant, however, he remained as the guest of the head captain, and himself broke a stick each day from the invitation string and finally conducted the visitors to the ceremony.
— from Ceremonies of the Pomo Indians by S. A. (Samuel Alfred) Barrett