I could now engage four spacious and well-appointed rooms in the same house—the Eiche at Schonau—where I had before lived in such straitened and frugal circumstances.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Anyway, they made an impressive sight, though not all coming near enough for Susan to reach.
— from The Brighton Boys in the Trenches by James R. Driscoll

The greedy man could not bear to see even an instant's pause, and he came out of the shadow, and bade them, with harsh words, go on grinding, and cease not except for so long as the cuckoo was silent, or while he himself sang a song.
— from Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling by Sara Cone Bryant

The Lodge had contained no extraterrestrials, for such of those as sought seclusion had Brotherhoods on their own planets.
— from Tea Tray in the Sky by Evelyn E. Smith

Long Tom and his comrades will take good care that none come near enough for speech."
— from At Agincourt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

If he breaks a limb or loses an eye, it is what happens to honest men as well as convicts, and he can claim no exemption from such calamities, and must be satisfied with prison fare when they overtake him as a convict.
— from The Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, April 1853 by Pennsylvania Prison Society

[3] As she reckons the value of the latter at a shilling, it follows, that the earnings of a dressmaker, in the best period of her life, who goes out to work, could not exceed fifteen shillings, or, at the most, eighteen shillings a week, if she did not—at the hazard of her health, which, indeed, is frequently sacrificed—work at home before she begins, and after she has finished, her day's work abroad.
— from Dress as a Fine Art, with Suggestions on Children's Dress by Mary P. (Mary Philadelphia) Merrifield

They took the bloody cloth to the Prince and told him to rise and eat, but when he saw the blood, all his old friendship revived and he was filled with remorse and could not eat for sorrow.
— from Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas

There are certain most delicate instincts and perceptions in us which act as first principles, and which, once effaced, can never, except from some supernatural source, be restored to the mind.
— from Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman

As when the present writer tried to order some hammer-handles and discovered after much tribulation that the correct naval equivalent for such is 'ash-helms.'
— from Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Christopher Morley