Then, turning with a prompt and decided air, he called aloud to his Indians, in their own language.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

The hideous monster's very view Would cleave a timid heart in two.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He is better able to judge of it than I am; for I very well know that I am a weak, light, girlish creature, and that he is a firm, grave, serious man.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The sun was just rising as the march began—it was a gallant sight—the band led the column, playing the regimental march—then came the Major in command, riding upon Pyramus, his stout charger—then marched the grenadiers, their Captain at their head; in the centre were the colours, borne by the senior and junior Ensigns—then George came marching at the head of his company.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

My sister Rosalie was a member of the company, and through her I could always gain admittance to the performances; and that which in my childhood had been merely the interest aroused by a strange spirit of curiosity now became a more deep-seated and conscious passion.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

He won’t keep it, and when in a year or two you meet him on the Nevsky Prospect with a new mistress on his arm, he’ll excuse himself on the ground that he has been crippled by civilisation, and that he is made after the pattern of Rudin.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I once talked with Colley Cibber, and thought him ignorant of the principles of his art.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

, etc., doubled according to custom, and that he is ready to make good any demands they may make.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

How Kate reached the lobby where her friends were waiting she never knew, but she hurried across it without at all regarding them, and disengaged herself suddenly from her companion, sprang into the coach, and throwing herself into its darkest corner burst into tears.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Mr. Terry was at that time making more clocks than any other man in the country, about two hundred in a year, which was thought to be a great number.
— from History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome Barnum's Connection with the Yankee Clock Business by Chauncey Jerome

Q. Why does the heart beat in some creatures after the head is cut off, as in birds and hens?
— from The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

The Roman builders left two great traditions, the adornment of the building, the open square, the city with combinations of Greek-seeming colonnades; and the huge interior, arranged for interior effect, vaulted when practicable, flat roofed with massive trabeated construction when the light and open character of the building, as of a huge portico, invited a pure Greek manner of design.
— from How to judge architecture: a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings by Russell Sturgis

Michael re-established the dynasty of the Palæologi on the throne of Constantine, and they held it for two short centuries.
— from The Passing of the Turkish Empire in Europe by B. Granville (Bernard Granville) Baker

The notion of a D.D. neither kenning nor caring about the highly important doctrine of predestination, so tickled the fancy of the company that they went into fits of laughter.
— from Scotch Wit and Humor by W. H. (Walter Henry) Howe

Others say that the Shining Ones, that sometimes showed themselves to him in his journey, are become his companions, and that he is as familiar with them in the place where he is as here one neighbour is with another.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

At present the Philippines can be reached only by cables which pass through many foreign countries, and the Hawaiian Islands and Guam can only be communicated with by steamers, involving delays in each instance of at least a week.
— from Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents William McKinley, Messages, Proclamations, and Executive Orders Relating to the Spanish-American War by William McKinley

"I think not," said Ruth, slowly, as she bent her head in a listening attitude, for a step was coming along the hallway in the Fenmore Apartment, where the DeVere girls and their father had their rather limited quarters.
— from The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film by Laura Lee Hope

That he was intimately acquainted with one John Goldencalf in his native country, and that he is personally knowing to the fact that he, the said John Goldencalf, has three wives, seven illegitimate children, is moreover a bankrupt without character, and that he was obliged to emigrate in consequence of having stolen a sheep.”
— from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper