When we entered the little, unpretending church, the evening sunlight streamed through the open door on the burning lamp, and glittered on the golden picture frames.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

But then, suddenly changing, she said, between laughing and glistening: 'Oh yes, I do though.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

I went down afterwards into Yorkshire; but my father was dead, and my mother and all the family extinct, except that I found two sisters, and two of the children of one of my brothers; and as I had been long ago given over for dead, there had been no provision made for me; so that, in a word, I found nothing to relieve or assist me; and that the little money I had would not do much for me as to settling in the world.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The civil war, begun by Lucius Antonius, governor of Upper Germany, he quelled, without being obliged to be personally present at it, with remarkable good fortune.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

She can't hear it; and she's miserable and unfortunate, and deserves to be laughed at. Go on joking, Ann.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Mad with the inspiration of this new idea, she rushed from the but like a gust of wind, and stood upon the burning ground.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

It may be conceded that an admiral who, from inferior numbers, cannot spread as long and close a line as his enemy, should not let the latter overlap the extremities of his fleet; but he should attain his end not, as Herbert did, by leaving a great opening in the centre, but by increasing each interval between the ships refused.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Many men give through weakness of character—We ought to give before our friends ask—Many benefits are spoiled by the manner of the giver—Marius Nepos and Tiberius—Some benefits should be given secretly—We must not give what would harm the receiver—Alexander's gift of a city—Interchange of benefits like a game of ball—From whom ought one to receive a benefit?—Examples—How to receive a benefit—Ingratitude caused by self-love, by greed, or by jealousy—Gratitude and repayment not the same thing—Phidias and the statue.
— from L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No one can be long amongst Germans, or even read many German novels, without coming across instances of what I mean.
— from Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.

"Do you fellows think we had better leave a guard over our clothes?" queried Dick, as they stood forth, ready for swimming.
— from The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

True, faith at its beginning may be like a grain of mustard seed, but if the grain of mustard seed be alive it will grow to a great tree, where all the fowls of the air can lodge in the branches.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren

Van Dyck was now induced by Levy and Goo, of Bayreuth, to take part in the production of "Parsifal," in 1888.
— from Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry Charles Lahee

These four vessels before mentioned, viz., one vein, two arteries and the urachos, join near Page 233 the navel, and are united by a skin which they have from the chorion and so become like a gut or rope, and are altogether void of sensibility, and this is that which women call the navel-string.
— from The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

Fresh faces did with him what they pleased; novelty amused him, and he gladly entered on fresh amours, ended by laughter and gaping on his part, and tears on the part of others.
— from The Countess Cosel: A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

To be lonely, and grow older and older, yearning for a soul to speak to!
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Highly elated, Cook told him about the application for business leave and gloated over his chances of being home first, and on full pay too.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 by Various