He deposited his basket upon the turf, and looked about with sad curiosity; till he discovered the road by which his wife and himself had entered on the upland so memorable to both, five-and-twenty years before.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

‘I give you my word and honour, sir,’ said Mr. Omer, ‘that when I lay that book upon the table, and look at it outside; compact in three separate and indiwidual wollumes—one, two, three; I am as proud as Punch to think that I once had the honour of being connected with your family.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He can, indeed, reason closely and continuously; but, every now and then, his thought bursts up through the argument like a flaming geyser and falls in showers of sparks.
— from The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker

For a second she dares not face him; then she comes bravely up to time and looks at him over her shoulder.
— from A Terrible Secret: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

They, therefore, with great prudence and foresight, came out of the apple backwards, protecting themselves by means of their chief offensive and defensive weapons, their stings, which, according to their normal method of locomotion, would have been useless to them as long as they were making their exit.
— from Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes

Far as the eye could reach the great white waves charged towards the land, one upon another, furious and headlong; below us they thundered and lashed and rushed back upon their fellows, till we who watched could not hear so much as our own voices.
— from Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

Mr. Peters took a very kind leave of both ladies at breakfast, and expressed a very friendly wish of being useful to them as long as they should remain at Clifton; but his judicious lady, who generally knew, without any discourtesy, how to make him perceive that his first impressions were somewhat less acute than her own, had pointed out to him a few peculiarities in Mrs. Barnaby, which he certainly did not approve.
— from The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Frances Milton Trollope

It was impossible that he should have lived so long on terms of familiarity with the disaffected without being unconsciously tainted to at least a small extent with their oft-repeated complaints.
— from My Lords of Strogue, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

Yet sometimes, my clever friend, I know you sit down on a green bank, under the trees, and look at your little church.
— from The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

By degrees she grew better under this treatment, and lived at Weinsberg, nearly two years, though in a state of great weakness, and more in the magnetic and clairvoyant than in the natural human state.
— from Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 by Margaret Fuller

There are many legendary stories connected with the Yorkshire caves, particularly in the Giggleswick district; but I have been unable to trace any legend about the "local Deity" of Gordale.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8) by William Wordsworth