Steadying herself by the help of one crutch, she essayed a step, then another, then a third, using the crutches now as walking-sticks only.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

This same Plato, who defines man as if he were a cock, says elsewhere, after Socrates, “That he does not, in truth, know what man is, and that he is a member of the world the hardest to understand.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

After a little while, however, he was again at home with his guests, looked at them with clear scrutinising eyes, and said: “My guests, ye higher men, I will speak plain language and plainly with you.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The lips were gently protruded, and rested the one upon the other, after such a fashion that it is impossible to conceive any, even the most complex, combination of human features, conveying so entirely, and so singly, the idea of unmitigated gravity, solemnity and repose.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Hélène was so lovely that not only did she not show any trace of coquetry, but on the contrary she even appeared shy of her unquestionable and all too victorious beauty.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

ere the passage ended and he could stand erect and stretch and shake himself.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

His solemn councils, strange evolutions, and secret orders, always supplied an apology for flight or delay.
— 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

Of them, some cannot speak English, and some—who earn a spare subsistence by selling Christian tracts—are Mahometans, or worshippers of Bramah!
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

La manière de vivre, de s'habiller et de parler du comte Souvorow, est aussi singulière que ses opinions militaires....
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Calmly she entered and softly closed the door behind her.
— from Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant

But the comic opera of the French, although from the space occupied by the music it is unsusceptible of any very perfect dramatic development, is still calculated to produce a considerable stage effect, and speaks pleasingly to the imagination.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

“That is for being cross,” she explained, appearing so unexpectedly at his elbow that he was taken aback.
— from The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie