The crows, ravens and magpies started up in terror at the yelling and shouting that sounded around.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

It will be such a help to Laurie, for I can row, and Meg see to the lunch, and the children be useful in some way.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

but I had a dozen young fellows of the best blood of the country riding as my squires and gentlemen of the horse.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Or feat of arms befell: The Scots can rein a mettled steed, And love to couch a spear; St. George!
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Women certainly require as much strength as to enable them to move and act gracefully, and men as much address as to qualify them to act with ease."
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

In democracies no great benefits are conferred, but good offices are constantly rendered: a man seldom displays self-devotion, but all men are ready to be of service to one another.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

We then struck across the country, into the great Cirencester road, and made such haste, that we spent the next evening, save one, in London.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

it will be such a help to Laurie, for I can row, and Meg see to the lunch, and the children be useful in some way."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

My words thy mind have treasur'd, thou henceforth This consistory round about mayst scan, And gaze thy fill.
— from Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise by Dante Alighieri

A quarrel between its noblemen 231 and its ministers (who are of course represented as mercenary self-seekers) determines its permanent character!
— from Nineteenth Century Questions by James Freeman Clarke

But it is opportune here to remind the leader, that many attempts have been made, in the course of centuries, by eminent expositors, to assign to many of the Mosaic ordinances motives of various characters, rationalistic and metaphysical, sanitary, political, and mystical, but all more or less conjectural.
— from A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth by Isaac Samuel Reggio

Part of it is merely re-converted into starch, and temporarily stored: another part passes into the arena of oxydation-processes, the sum of which constitute respiration, and may serve for a time in the molecules of an organic acid: yet another part may be converted into a constituent of the cellulose cell-walls; while part may be brought into play in the reconstruction of protoplasm.
— from Disease in Plants by H. Marshall (Harry Marshall) Ward

Dawson is beyond our own recollection; but we can remember a more singular and a much more honest fellow, whose appearance on the Doncaster course was as confidently looked for, and as ardently desired, as that of any of the Lords Lieutenant of the various Ridings.
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

We waited no more, but went out into the street I was barely two closes off from the Tolbooth when a messenger came running after me, sent by the Marquis, who asked if I would oblige greatly by waiting till he made up on me.
— from John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro

In this part of his work, the author of the Periplus, mentions and describes the annual voyage between the coast of Africa and India: after enumerating the articles imported from the latter country, which consisted chiefly of corn, rice, butter; oil of Sesanum; cotton, raw and manufactured sashes; and honey from the cane, called sugar; he adds, that "many vessels are employed in this commerce, expressly for the importation of these articles, and others, which have a more distant destination, sell part of their cargoes on this coast, and take in the produce in return."
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

His treatment presents Russell as engaged in a policy of deception with the view of obtaining an ultimate advantage to Great Britain in the field of commercial rivalry and maritime supremacy.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

And, come now, what do you turn away for? Dost think, if, as I believe, though there are envious persons in the world, as there always are when a man's handsome or clever or brave,— though, by the way, which is a very droll thing in my eyes, they don't envy, at least not ill-naturedly, a man for being a lord or rich, but, quite on the contrary, rank and money seem to make them think one has all the cardinal virtues.
— from Paul Clifford — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron