‘To think,’ said Traddles, ‘that you should have been so nearly coming home as you must have been, my dear old boy, and not at the ceremony!’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

She told me that Lizzie had been somewhat nervous at first, but she had spoken kindly to her, told her how her amiable and loving conduct after her first whipping had won her affection; that she did not mean to be so severe as on the former occasion, but that discipline must be kept up.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

A number of Foxes assembled on the bank of a river and wanted to drink; but the current was so strong and the water looked so deep and dangerous that they didn't dare to do so, but stood near the edge encouraging one another not to be afraid.
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

There was not a visible particle of Plattner to be seen; not a drop of blood nor a stitch of clothing to be found.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Within those bounds, their brethren slain, No giant shall this day remain, But all shall fly with many a tear And fearing, rid the saints of fear.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The Company was established for the erection of improved dwellings near to the great centres of industry to carry out the objects of the Company in London, large estates have been secured near Clapham Junction and the Harrow Road, that near Clapham Junction called Shaftesbury Park.
— from All about Battersea by Henry S. Simmonds

"' He went out again upon the sea-wall, but saw nothing, and came back more angry.
— from Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

[ Pg 205] The watchers looked at each other, but said no word.
— from The Washer of the Ford: Legendary moralities and barbaric tales by William Sharp

But she need grieve over this no longer, and when she remembered that even the sorest want had not been able to induce her to touch his alms, she could have fairly shouted for joy amid all her misery.
— from In the Blue Pike — Volume 02 by Georg Ebers

On this mention of the Anna pink, I cannot but observe { 144} how much it is to be lamented that the Wager's people had no knowledge of her being so near them on the coast; for as she was not above thirty leagues distant from them, and came into their neighbourhood about the same time the Wager was lost, and was a fine roomy ship, she could easily have taken them all on board, and have carried them to Juan Fernandes.
— from A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by Anson, George Anson, Baron

He had loved her before she became the blessing she now was to him and to his; to-day he loved her more than ever before.
— from The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

Bates may be mended with fresh portions of dung-infusion for several successive packs of hides, but should not be used too long, as they gain in solvent power by the dissolved hide-substance and the increased fermentation, and the method is not without risk.
— from The Principles of Leather Manufacture by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

In the dim light of the beautiful starry night twelve horsemen were following in each others' tracks among the reeds of the morass.
— from Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai

The advantages of such a course will be to give the federal government greater efficacy in the execution of its remaining powers, and especially in our foreign concerns; and it will afford us the best security, not only against disunion, but the opposite danger of consolidation.
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 8, April, 1835 by Various

There must be some narrowness in the soul that compels one to have secrets.
— from Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau