"Down in that narrow lane, in a low cellar, lived a poor sick boy; he had been afflicted from his childhood, and even in his best days he could just manage to walk up and down the room on crutches once or twice, but no more.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Alas, by degrees, even needlework must cease: Plot in the Prison rises, by Citoyen Laflotte and Preternatural Suspicion.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care; and after the interment of his friend, he conducted her to Geneva, and placed her under the protection of a relation.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care; and after the interment of his friend he conducted her to Geneva and placed her under the protection of a relation.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The count, like a punished schoolboy, looked round, trying by a smile to win Simon’s sympathy for his plight.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

She went through the CONSERVATOIRE like a poor soulless singing-machine.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

The epistle of the Greeks with a Latin version, is extant in the college library at Prague.] "Sultan Murad, or Amurath, lived forty-nine, and reigned thirty years, six months, and eight days.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

We seem to be aware in it of a certain limitation, a partial suppression of that element in Shakespeare's mind which unites him with the mystical poets and with the great musicians and philosophers.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

“You know nothing and you care less, as people say.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Opposite him stood Baptist, resting his hands on his club, and, moving his [pg 184] head, which was supported on the end of the club, like a pumpkin stuck on the end of a long pole, he nodded it, now forward and now backward, and cried incessantly, “Sprinkle, sprinkle!”
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

The children, who had not ceased laughing and playing since we left New York, waited for the slope of the deck to reach its greatest, and then ran down towards the bulwarks precipitously.
— from Old Junk by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

You can imagine that clad in lace, with just enough light to give her a shadowy charm like a phantom, she looked like a picture of the ideal capable of bewitching 268 a lover who is about to be dismissed.
— from The Blue Duchess by Paul Bourget

Dans la légende norse, le fermier se nomme Platt; et lorsqu’il revient chez lui, ayant pris, sinon du vin, de la cervoise, il dit à sa ménagère: “Écoute ce qui m’est arrivé ce soir!
— from Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island by MacCulloch, Edgar, Sir