‘And now, Sammy,’ said the old gentleman, when the whip-lashes, and the buckles, and the samples, had been all put back, and the book once more deposited at the bottom of the same pocket, ‘now, Sammy, I know a gen’l’m’n here, as’ll do the rest o’ the bisness for us, in no time—a limb o’ the law, Sammy, as has got brains like the frogs, dispersed all over his body, and reachin’ to the wery tips of his fingers; a friend of the Lord Chancellorship’s, Sammy, who’d only have to tell him what he wanted, and he’d lock you up for life, if that wos all.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Now, if I had stayed at Badger's I should have been obliged to spend twelve pounds at a blow for some heart-breaking lecture-fees.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

And Father Jose looked in vain for holy cross or Christian symbol; there was but one that seemed an ensign, and he crossed himself with holy horror as he perceived it bore the effigy of a bear.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Partly because of the matter, which is sometimes incoherent, partly because of the style, which, though picturesque, is sometimes confused and ungrammatical, Sartor is not easy reading; but it amply repays whatever time and study we give to it.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Leaning back in one corner of the carriage, in a violent burst of tears, she was conveyed some miles beyond the walls of the abbey before she raised her head; and the highest point of ground within the park was almost closed from her view before she was capable of turning her eyes towards it.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Many a night he vaguely and unhappily wandered there, when wine had brought no transitory gladness to him; many a dreary daybreak revealed his solitary figure lingering there, and still lingering there when the first beams of the sun brought into strong relief, removed beauties of architecture in spires of churches and lofty buildings, as perhaps the quiet time brought some sense of better things, else forgotten and unattainable, into his mind.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The widewinged nostrils, from which bristles of the same tawny hue projected, were of such capaciousness that within their cavernous obscurity the fieldlark might easily have lodged her nest.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

"My faith, sir," said Friar Giroflée, "I wish that all the Theatins were at the bottom of the sea.
— from Candide by Voltaire

Their fixed jav’lins in his side he wears, And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” — Waller’s Battle of the Summer Islands .
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Then they offered hecatombs of bulls and goats without blemish on the sea-shore, and the smoke with the savour of their sacrifice rose curling up towards heaven.
— from The Iliad by Homer

When it was attempted to evaporate the solution of this salt to crystallization the latter came out in a hard insoluble granular form and on continuous boiling of the solution turned brown.
— from On Sulphonfluoresceïn and Some of Its Derivatives by C. W. (Charles Willard) Hayes

We know from work in other areas that the Early Farmer bearers of the Swift Creek tradition had continued their existence uninterrupted save only in the immediate vicinity of Macon.
— from Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia by G. D. Pope

This was the twenty-third day, which is full of incidents, and which continues from almost the beginning of the second canto to the eighth.
— from The Tatler, Volume 1 by Steele, Richard, Sir

Dorne’s list is of great value, as showing what was the literature sold at a great university city at the beginning of the sixteenth century, and with the much-needed explanations of Messrs. Madan [85] and Bradshaw, it forms an important addition to our knowledge, but there is not much in it that can be quoted here with advantage.
— from Prices of Books An Inquiry into the Changes in the Price of Books which have occurred in England at different Periods by Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley

I quote the following from the Strand Magazine (Sept., 1903): “For a man fettered with handcuffs, leg-irons, and chains to free himself in less time than it has taken to fasten him has long been so mystifying a performance that many people have acquired the impression that it bordered on the supernatural.
— from The Old and the New Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans

Would it not be sweet to his sense of justice that both of them should thus at last have their own?
— from Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

He also took up a large square box of the size of a portmanteau, which was concealed among his dirty linen.
— from Les Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic by Victor Hugo

Cenotaphs like those in the present building are mentioned as early as 700 A.D. Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela states, however, that Jews were able in his days to descend, through an iron door, into the cavern, which was in three compartments, and where the real tombs were shown.
— from Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure by C. R. (Claude Reignier) Conder

The approach to the bridge on the south side is by a causeway raised on arches to admit the passage of the waters in time of floods, which have on different occasions caused much damage here; and over one of the arches, near the centre of the bridge, is a mediaeval building, originally intended for a chapel.
— from What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association by Gordon Home

He moved toward him, drawn by the quickly established chord of sympathy between two boys on the subject of dogs.
— from Harper's Young People, November 23, 1880 An Illustrated Monthly by Various