But after she had almost reached the hall door she came back hurriedly.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

They're both as sorry hacks as Rocinante."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

They’re both as sorry hacks as Rocinante.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

'He has brought me to this lonely place to murder me!' He was about to throw himself on the ground, and make one struggle for his young life, when he saw that they stood before a solitary house: all ruinous and decayed.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Anne’s tickled to death over the whole business, and she has a real knacky way with children, I must say.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Some historians—those biographical and specialist historians already referred to—in their simplicity failing to understand the question of the meaning of power, seem to consider that the collective will of the people is unconditionally transferred to historical persons, and therefore when describing some single state they assume that particular power to be the one absolute and real power, and that any other force opposing this is not a power but a violation of power—mere violence.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the every-day practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

But no, that wrist-ring has a tongue, No maiden art thou, but a spouse, Happy, and rich, and fair, and young."
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

He was about to throw himself on the ground, and make one struggle for his young life, when he saw that they stood before a solitary house: all ruinous and decayed.
— from Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated by Charles Dickens

But after seeing him as Rector of Dacrefield, she added, "He's getting much too 'high.'
— from A Flat Iron for a Farthing; or, Some Passages in the Life of an only Son by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

"Whereas Daniel De Foe, alias De Fooe, is charged with writing a scandalous and seditious pamphlet, entitled 'The shortest Way with the Dissenters:' he is a middle-sized spare man, about 40 years old, of a brown complexion, and dark-brown coloured hair, but wears a wig, a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth, was born in London, and for many years was a hose-factor, in Freeman's Yard, in Cornhill, and now is owner of the brick and pantile works near Tilbury Fort, in Essex; whoever shall discover the said Daniel De Foe, to one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or any of her Majesty's Justices of Peace, so as he may be apprehended, shall have a reward of £50, which her Majesty has ordered immediately to be paid upon such discovery."
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes by Daniel Defoe

With that wondrous solicitude which fills a mother’s heart towards her only child, Lady Nairne had watched the training of her boy; and she had a rich reward.
— from Model Women by William Anderson

Unable to bring his enemy to battle, and seeing his army reduced to great distress for want of food and water, Darius was compelled to retreat by the way he had come.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

The mon-aulos, “the sweet monaulos,” not seen on the vases or wall-paintings, but known to have been, and still having a real existence in two solitary specimens now in the British Museum, and accompanied by that evidence, which is unique as it is precious, of the actual hollow bulb that tipped the pipe.
— from The World's Earliest Music Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and Sumer by Hermann Smith

"I hoped it would, because a Somerled has a right to the trust of a MacDonald.
— from The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

At his death it was purchased by my friend Mr. Knowles, has been cleaned by a skilful hand, and restored to nearly its pristine state.
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 3 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli