Suddenly, a turtledove of the purest whiteness comes flying in at the window, and alights upon his hand, bearing in her bill a branch of red gilliflower, on the leaves of which is written, in letters of gold, the following sentence: Awake!
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Then he made a dive for the cupboard and was inside it before one really got on to it that he had started leaping.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Other causes no doubt assisted to bring about a renewal of Danish invasion; but the Danes who came at the end of the tenth century, if they began as haphazard bands of rovers, greedy of spoil and ransom, developed into the emissaries of an organized government bent on political conquest.
— from The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

Ciudad Rodrigo is built on rising ground, on the right bank of the Agueda.
— from The Romance of Modern Sieges Describing the personal adventures, resource and daring of besiegers and beseiged in all parts of the world by Edward Gilliat

As horse-stealing is not a crime, but only “rough gambling,” on the roads, nobody defended him on these counts.
— from The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland

"I know what you mean," I replied; "though I should have to make a vast reservation in favour of the man who wrote 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol.'" "One ballad doesn't make a man a poet," he barked; "I mean by poet one to whom verse lends power: in that sense he's not a poet and I am."
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 by Frank Harris

[89] showed great variety, being of rough granite or brick, with tiled roofs, unusual balconies and porticos, fantastic plaster decorations, such as a group of frogs, a procession of swimming swans, a bunch of carrots and turnips, or a savage animal head.
— from Our Little Finnish Cousin by Clara Vostrovsky Winlow

" When the war broke out, Richard girded on his knapsack and went to help Uncle Sam humble Richmond and break the yoke. * * * * * BARNABY GRIGBY, ALIAS JOHN BOYER, AND MARY ELIZABETH, HIS WIFE; FRANK WANZER, ALIAS ROBERT SCOTT; EMILY FOSTER, ALIAS ANN WOOD.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

To the right the fields were brimful of ripening grain of every shade of gold; the deep-orange corn was overflowing into the pale amber of the rye, and the bearded barley was washing the hedge that walled it off from the lemon-colored wheat.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

“To go to a dinner-party: yellow dog’s skin Gloves—and in the evening for a ball or rout: Gloves of white lamb-skin embroidered with silk.”
— from The Sunshade, the Glove, the Muff by Octave Uzanne

Upon the top of the crown was a ball of red glass, or chrystal, with several bells of different colours within it.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce