(For other similar cases, see Guigne's History of the Huns.)
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

She, as her carol sadder grew, From brow and bosom slowly down 1 Thro' rosy taper fingers drew Her streaming curls of deepest brown To left and right, 2 and made appear, Still-lighted in a secret shrine, Her melancholy eyes divine, 3 The home of woe without a tear.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

If thus thou and nature can so gently part, The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desir'd.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The sovereign might endow the members of such an aristocracy with grants of the lands of the crown to support their dignity, but what benefit could such grants be, even to the recipients, in a country covered with boundless forests and nearly destitute of inhabitants?
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

To the crow somewhere God sent a piece of cheese.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It was only when I felt him envelope me in his cold soft grasp that I cried out and struggled with deadly fury, but my hands were useless and he tore the onyx clasp from my coat and struck me full in the face.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The worthy man begged her to remind me that if I could not make up my mind to separate from her daughter before I left Lausanne, it would be much more difficult for me to do so when I was farther off; above all, if, as would probably be the case, she gave me a living pledge of her love.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

One evening a week or more after the disappearance of Jim and the girls, George Young and David Edwards, the missionaries, sat on the cabin steps, gazing disconsolately upon the forest scenery.
— from The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley by Zane Grey

"Kind fiddlestick, my good child!" said Gerald, suddenly losing the burning boy expression and becoming in a flash entirely himself.
— from The Enchanted Castle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

"She has genius, certainly," said Graham, with a keen pang at his heart, —Madame de Grantmesnil, the dearest friend of Isaura!
— from The Parisians — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

As the question of Necessity and Freedom, with other questions depending thereon, was at one time debated between the famous Mr. Hobbes and Dr. John Bramhall, Bishop of Derry, in books published by each of them, I have deemed it appropriate to give a clear account of them (although I have already mentioned them more than once); and this all the more since these writings of Mr. Hobbes have hitherto only appeared in English, and since the works of this author usually contain something good and ingenious.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

He has certainly seen good society.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

“Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I could say good-night till it be morrow!”
— from She and I, Volume 1 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

Won't some of the clergy say grace at dinner?
— from Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

"She won't hit him, he's such a little chap," said Gerald.
— from The Enchanted Castle by E. (Edith) Nesbit