‘But Jip,’ said Dora, looking at him with compassion, ‘even little Jip!
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

It was a dull gray landscape, and as I gradually deciphered the details of it I realized that it represented a long and enormously high line of cliffs exactly like an immense cataract seen in the distance, with a sloping, tree-clad plain in the foreground.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

You must confess, Pauline, that the essence cannot exist long without the accident.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This was all I could ever learn of her antecedents.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

“Well, I on the contrary expected less—I’ll own frankly.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In this Elbow lane is the Innholders’ hall, and other fair houses; this lane runneth west, and suddenly turneth south into Thames street, and therefore of that bending is called Elbow lane.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

su casa que el cuerdo en la ajena.”
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

{vii} J. W. Conrad, Chief Engineer, La Haye, Holland.
— from The Crystal Palace: Its Architectural History and Constructive Marvels by Fowler, Charles, Jr.

The tripping dactyle, followed by the grave spondee, closing each line with a sort of curtsey , may have a charming effect in Latin.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 427, May, 1851 by Various

Madame Mère and the first Napoleon commence the series of portraits—taken from life, nearly a hundred years ago, in their native land; many of the emperor's brothers and sisters are represented also; the present Princess Marianna, with other relatives; sketches of Napoleon's exploits, from the time he was "le petit corporal" until he became the dethroned emperor; and every possible episode in the life of Napoleon the Third, concluding with a large engraving of the Chislehurst exile lying upon his pillow, the crafty, ambitious face still and calm in the solemnity of death.
— from A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gertrude Forde

She made little account of herself, and did not suppose that what concerned her could excite lively emotions in the hearts of her uncle and aunt.
— from Kitty Alone: A Story of Three Fires (vol. 3 of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

At the same moment Forrester reached the shore and raced towards them, and as Eliot straightened himself it was to meet the other man’s eyes blazing into his—savage, challenging eyes, like those of a tiger robbed of its prey.
— from The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler

By / S. T. Coleridge, Esq. / London : Printed for Rest Fenner, Paternoster Row. / 1817. /
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge