The ceiling was like a great palm-tree, with glass leaves of the most costly crystal, and over the centre of the floor two beds, each resembling a lily, hung from a stem of gold.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"Thou art in greater danger now, Robin, than thou hast yet been," said he, "for before thee lie bands of the Sheriff's men blocking every road and letting none pass through the lines without examining them closely.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Fortunately, however, he had not been taken; the people, believing that he had escaped by some back entrance, retired and left him at liberty to retreat.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

That at least would be entirely right and logical, and the padre with the gold cross would be therefore the man to consult in the matter.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The time was short but she wrote urgent letters to Lucy Stone, Antoinette Brown, Ernestine Rose and Lucretia Mott.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

From such passages, not unknown to men of forty, he would come out broken, exhausted, remorseful, a little dismayed.
— from The Point Of Honor: A Military Tale by Joseph Conrad

Modification and differentiation of species must accordingly have been extremely rapid, and life had already developed a very great variety of widely contrasted forms before it began to leave traces in the rocks.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Benjamin exchanged, replying, "And let it be a pledge of friendship forever."
— from From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin by William Makepeace Thayer

“I repeat it, Sparks, I’ll make a proposal for you in all form, aided and abetted by everything recommendatory and laudatory I can think of; I’ll talk of you as a Peninsular of no small note and promise; and observe rigid silence about your Welsh flirtation and your Spanish elopement.”
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

It is true that these hopes are usually extravagant; it is true that the whole improvement of the individuals of one generation is not carried over by inheritance into the next; it is true therefore that we cannot by education raise a lower race up to the plane of a higher race in a few generations ; but there must be a small residuum, be it ever so small, carried forward by inheritance and accumulated from age to age, which enters into the slow growth of the race.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

Nature in charms is exhaustless, in beauty ever reviving; And, like Nature, fair art is inexhaustible too.
— from The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Friedrich Schiller

By EDITH ROBINSON A Little Puritan's First Christmas.
— from Our Little Spanish Cousin by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

Bernard Ratzer was a British Engineer, ranking as lieutenant in the Sixtieth Royal American Regiment of Foot in 1756.
— from The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year by Henry Phelps Johnston

Better, but equally revolting, are ll. 1096-1112 from the same play.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler