“Then look here; I have been lying only to this extent.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

"My Bible lies on the table yonder," said the sick woman one day to Sarah.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The old man clears his throat impatiently and, shrinking from the penetrating damp, walks round the engine, and as he does so the brilliant light of the two engine lamps dazzles his eyes for an instant and makes the night even blacker to him; he goes to the station.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

As the bold hunter cheers his hounds to tear The brindled lion, or the tusky bear: [pg 204] With voice and hand provokes their doubting heart, And springs the foremost with his lifted dart: So godlike Hector prompts his troops to dare; Nor prompts alone, but leads himself the war.
— from The Iliad by Homer

This MS-DOS program helps users set up detailed search commands before logging on to the Mead Data Central.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

úpin — a kang which has been laid on the table.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But midway between the navel and pubes, at the point marked G, both layers of the tendon are found to pass in front of the rectus.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

the bailiff from the farm asked, when Jim had been lifted on to the hurdle.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Then there had come the Irish, and there had been lots of them, too; the husband drank and beat the children—the neighbors could hear them shrieking any night.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

On the other hand the passage near Placentia was accomplished after the pursuit had slackened; the corps was several miles distant from the field of battle, and had arrived within reach of a Roman fortress; it may even have been the case, although it cannot be proved, that a bridge led over the Trebia at that point, and that the -tete de pont- on the other bank was occupied by the garrison of Placentia.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

a very beautiful little ode to them.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

All our gipsies were at once in a delicious state of unconsciousness, in tumbled heaps, as part of the baggage, lying on the turf around.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

And you will understand that what the poet means by plants are such plants as now live, the ancestors, in the ordinary way of propagation of like by like, of the trees and shrubs which flourish in the present world.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

If the courts of the Union violated an important law of a state in a private case, the real, if not the apparent contest would arise between the aggrieved state, represented by a citizen, and the Union, represented by its courts of justice.{158} He would have but a partial knowledge of the world who should imagine that it is possible, by the aid of legal fictions, to prevent men from finding out and employing those means of gratifying their passions which have been left open to them; and it may be doubted whether the American legislators, when they rendered a collision between the two sovereignties less probable, destroyed the causes of such a misfortune.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

In this petition occur these trenchant words: "As we are serious and in good earnest and the cause respects the whole body of the people it would be loss of time to enter into arguments on particular points for though there are a few men who have the gift and art of reasoning, yet every man has a feeling and knows when he has justice done him as well as the most learned."
— from The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 by Archibald Henderson

"I was one of two that broke through both lines of the troops when we came to the charge!"
— from The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

It was a time of deep exercise; but looking often to the Lord for assistance, He in unspeakable kindness favored us with the influence of that spirit which crucifies to the greatness and splendor of this world, and enabled us to go through some heavy labors, in which we found peace."
— from The Inner Life Part 3 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII by John Greenleaf Whittier

It would seem, too, the King’s predilection for French fiddlers formed part of his anti-national tendency, and was carried so far that John Banister, who had been leader of the twenty-four, was dismissed for saying, on his return from Paris, that the English violins were better than the French.
— from Royalty in All Ages The Amusements, Eccentricities, Accomplishments, Superstitions and Frolics of the Kings and Queens of Europe by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

He made a sign for the miniature to be left on the table.
— from Celt and Saxon — Complete by George Meredith