True, I said; and this, Glaucon, like all the rest, must proceed after an orderly fashion; in a city of the blessed, licentiousness is an unholy thing which the rulers will forbid.
— from The Republic by Plato

"No," replied Brother Lustig, "I am used to wandering about, I will travel farther."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

No time had been lost in acting upon this warning.
— from Olga Romanoff by George Chetwynd Griffith

" It didn't take long to put more powder in the basin, light it and utter the syllable "EE!"
— from Glinda of Oz In Which Are Related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in Their Hazardous Journey to the Home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and How They Were Rescued from Dire Peril by the Sorcery of Glinda the Good by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The constable and his companions searched the house from top to bottom, looking into and under the beds, and into every cupboard and corner to be found.
— from Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston

It was because it was so tranquil, so different from the playing-fields, and because the sun seemed to linger around this old garden longer than anywhere else, that the dreamy boy loved it, and used to steal there when he was well.
— from The Hero of Garside School by Panting, J. Harwood, (James Harwood)

147 The tiny being climbed to the edge of the blossom, lifted its arms up to the moonlight, and looked out into the bright shining night with a smile of bliss lighting up its face.
— from The Adventures of Maya the Bee by Waldemar Bonsels

The scheme for the sewing on of suspender-buttons and the miscellaneous mending that needs to be done for lone-lorn savages like myself might be left in abeyance until the culinary scheme has been established.
— from The Inventions of the Idiot by John Kendrick Bangs

Shane had used bad language in an undertone; Terence had blushed, and hung his head.
— from My Lords of Strogue, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

With this he solemnly unlocked the box, and having thrown the lid back, laid it again upon the table.
— from The Black Box: A Tale of Monmouth's Rebellion by W. Bourne Cooke

But love is an unceremonious thing, and what in the world should happen but that young Jack Winter must fall wofully and wildly in love with Harriet Palmley almost as soon as he saw her.
— from Life's Little Ironies A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters by Thomas Hardy