—Yorick could not forbear smiling.—Your reverence does not consider, said the corporal, shouldering his stick like a musket, and marching into the middle of the room, to illustrate his position,—that 'tis exactly the same thing, as doing one's exercise in the field.—
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

On opening the chest , slight hemorrhages may be noted in the pericardium and in the visceral and costal pleuræ.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

So, now, old coon,” said he to the man at the bar, “get us hot water, and sugar, and cigars, and plenty of the real stuff and we’ll have a blow-out.”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Why, yes,” returned the captain, scratching his head; “and making a large allowance, sir, for all the gifts of Providence, I should say we were pretty close hauled.”
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Remember the computer screen has a dual role — displaying as well as concealing.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

As he spoke he drew a little penknife from his pocket, opened the smaller blade, and moved his chair so that I could see his thigh.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

That the actual social situation has greatly changed since his day there is no need to say.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

¿Por qué, si no hay aquí álamos grandes ni chicos, se ha de llamar esto los Alamillos ?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

She felt a new companionship with it, as if it had an ear for her and could see how she was looking at it.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Felicite now wore Madame Bovary’s gowns; not all, for he had kept some of them, and he went to look at them in her dressing-room, locking himself up there; she was about her height, and often Charles, seeing her from behind, was seized with an illusion, and cried out— “Oh, stay, stay!”
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

I came, saw her, forgot all about the proprieties, and spoke at once.
— from The Senator's Bride by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Could she have offered any resistance; would she have dared to do so; hypocrite, liar, strumpet?”
— from Casanova's Homecoming by Arthur Schnitzler

“The only really divine attribute of my royal condition,” said he to himself, “is that it is so easy to a king to make men happy.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Complete by Georg Ebers

But did you think, when at first he suggested it to you, that there was such a man to be found, of whom it might justly be said that he never committed sin? HOPE.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

He would not admit anything could move him, could stir his poise or disturb his equanimity.
— from The Mystery Girl by Carolyn Wells

The words were chokingly said; he was swaying, almost falling, but he steadied himself.
— from Initials Only by Anna Katharine Green