[Enter BASSANIO, LORENZO, and GRATIANO.] SALANIO.
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Agnes rose up from her father’s side, before long; and going softly to her piano, played some of the old airs to which we had often listened in that place.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

But little by little a general stir was beginning.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When he heard me pronounce these words in our own language, he leaped upon me in a transport of joy, hung about my neck, kissed me from ear to ear, and blubbered like a great schoolboy who had been whipped.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

— Grayling enters , takes a chair , and placing it between Lucy and Gwinett , sits down .
— from Ambrose Gwinett; or, a sea-side story: a melo-drama, in three acts by Douglas William Jerrold

Still, we must not jump to the conclusion that his time was entirely wasted, for he evidently carried into his busy life a good stock of classical learning.
— from Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In by Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley

After the boat left, a gloom settled upon the little garrison at Detroit.
— from Four American Indians: King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola by Edson Leone Whitney

The results of the investigations in this section of the country to which the party had been lured are graphically set forth by Mr. Harper in a half-serious, half-humorous manner which gives the narrative a peculiar interest.
— from A Journey in Southeastern Mexico by Henry Howard Harper

The great saurians sometimes cross a considerable tract in order to pass from one river to another; but their motions by land are generally slower than those of quadrupeds.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

[3]-16; The Imprint, Printed by Law and Gilbert, St. John's Square, London, is at the foot of p. 16
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The moon rises beyond Trinitá dei Monti, and sails above that human beehive like a great silver bark, illuminating the tops of trees, roofs, and towers.
— from Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

And then there are the unfortunates from the City-road, with painted faces, brazen looks, and gorgeous silks; mercenary in every thought and feeling, and with hearts hard as adamant.
— from The Night Side of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

Strangely enough, for I have always regarded myself as a practical, commonsensed man, so many of these still-born children of my mind I find, on looking through the cupboard where their thin bodies lie, are ghost stories.
— from The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Why should any one be taught to behave like a gentleman, so long as he is no gentleman? Cornelius burst out laughing.
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald