The village being small he had little difficulty in finding Mrs Durbeyfield's tenement, which was a house in a walled garden, remote from the main road, where she had stowed away her clumsy old furniture as best she could.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

He was so beautiful, so high, so noble!
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fanny's letter was received with great pleasure yesterday, and her brother sends his thanks and will answer it soon.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

Many of our most important beliefs still have only this sort of warrant.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

"I am dreaming—I am getting out of bed," she heard her own voice say; and then, as she stood up in the midst of it all, turning slowly from side to side—"I am dreaming it stays—real!
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The huge brick house which Banker White had built on Buckeye Street had overshadowed it.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

The kalao called in the woods several times after the rain had ceased, but still her sons did not come.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

I afterward rode out, that night, to Major Snyder's house on North Beach, saw him, and he agreed to meet me at 8 a.m. next day, at the United States Mint, and to pay the check, so that I could have the money before the bank opened.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

But she had little to fear.
— from Starvecrow Farm by Stanley John Weyman

“You black ——!” said Hart.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

"I suppose appearances were against me; but——" She held him for a moment with her eyes that measured him; then, as if she had done all that she wanted with him, she gave him back to himself, the finer for her handling.
— from The Return of the Prodigal by May Sinclair

"You needn't be sorry," he answered.
— from The Guests Of Hercules by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

The pictures she made all around the margin of it are some of the best she has done.
— from The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

He was thinking of the girl and of the romance with which his imagination had already clothed this lonely spot; he was also thinking of a picture which might be made of her; he was wondering what excuse he could make for staying another week at Tregarthen's—when he was startled by striking his stick against metal.
— from Armorel of Lyonesse: A Romance of To-day by Walter Besant

if he had, you may be sure he wouldn't have come for me.
— from Sans-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Paul de Kock

With Petrarch, as it has well been said, his love for the Latin language was but the form of his love for his people, as in his great hope for the future the glory of the past was to return.
— from Women of the Romance Countries (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 6 (of 10) by John R. (John Robert) Effinger