In letters, questions, and comments also which might be taken from Defoe's Monthly Supplementary Journal to the Advice from the Scandal Club , we catch a likeness to the spirit of the Tatler and Spectator now and then exact.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Then they leaned the chariot against the end wall of the courtyard, and led the way into the house.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

He had entered the service of Porthos upon condition that he should only be clothed and lodged, though in a handsome manner; but he claimed two hours a day to himself, consecrated to an employment which would provide for his other wants.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

For when virtue came from heaven (as the poet feigns) rich men kicked her up, wicked men abhorred her, courtiers scoffed at her, citizens hated her, [3754] and that she was thrust out of doors in every place, she came at last to her sister Poverty, where she had found good entertainment.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Come a little this way.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d’Angoulême.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

There, when Titus Manlius the consul, by direction of the senate, required of them not to make war on their confederates the Samnites, Annius, as if he had taken the Capitol by arms as a victor, and were not addressing them as an ambassador protected by the law of nations, says: "It were time, Titus Manlius, and you, conscript fathers, to cease at length treating with us on a footing of superiority, when you see Latium in a most flourishing state by the bounty of the gods in arms and men, the Samnites being vanquished in war, the Sidicinians and Campanians our allies, the Volscians now united to us in alliance, and that your own colonies even prefer the government of Latium to that of Rome.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

He was a merchant, too, and agent for the British North Borneo Company, which had recently secured a charter as a semi-independent colony for the extensive cession which had originally been made to the American Trading Company and later transferred to them.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

Whether Zambo can at last take these letters to the river, or whether I shall myself in some miraculous way carry them back with me, or, finally, whether some daring explorer, coming upon our tracks with the advantage, perhaps, of a perfected monoplane, should find this bundle of manuscript, in any case I can see that what I am writing is destined to immortality as a classic of true adventure.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

The struggle lasted a whole day, and in the course of it the two kings, catching sight of one another on the field of battle, engaged in personal combat: at last, towards evening, the chariots and cavalry of Urartu gave way and the rout began.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

The main essential in his eyes was that she was benevolent to the poor, and that she cherished a little tenderness for heroes.
— from Samuel Brohl and Company by Victor Cherbuliez

"If I'd been what he thought I was, I know I could have kept all he gave me, but, you see, if he'd known I was cheatin' an' lyin' to him all the time he wouldn't 'a' given me a single thing, so don't ye see, I ain't no business to keep 'em, an' I ain't goin' to keep 'em a minute longer'n I have to."
— from The Bishop's Shadow by I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston

De Quincey 50 incidentally mentions this characteristic in narrating a conversation which occurred while he was at Carnarvon, a little town in Wales.
— from The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development by Levi L. (Levi Leonard) Conant

The owner had stopped for a moment in passing the secluded couple, and the rich chestnut head was presented in clear relief against the confused mass of color and light that streamed through the doorway of the saloon.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Not only did the courts and lawmakers try to stop the increase for showy clothing but also the ministers took up the refrain and preached against the display of finery.
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman

In his experience, miracle is less than creation and lower than truth.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

"Now I am aground again," said Tom to himself, as he put on his cap and left the room.
— from Go-Ahead; Or, The Fisher-Boy's Motto by Harry Castlemon

"Prince can go faster than this," Diana confided at last to her companion.
— from Diana by Susan Warner