It was as follows: “MY DEAR SIR, “I feel myself called upon, by our relationship, and my situation in life, to condole with you on the grievous affliction you are now suffering under, of which we were yesterday informed by a letter from Hertfordshire.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

This simultaneous discussion of many topics did not prevent a clear understanding but on the contrary was the surest sign that they fully understood one another.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

By the fall, the child came from the dying mother, and being caught up by one of the catholic ruffians, he stabbed the infant, and then threw it into the river.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

There is not an Heroick Scribler in the Nation, that has not his Admirers who think him a great Genius ; and as for your Smatterers in Tragedy, there is scarce a Man among them who is not cried up by one or other for a prodigious Genius .
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

He ran across the streets and the great squares of Vanity Fair, and at length came up breathless opposite his own house.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

" With this Menelaus left them, looking round him as keenly as an eagle, whose sight they say is keener than that of any other bird—however high he may be in the heavens, not a hare that runs can escape him by crouching under bush or thicket, for he will swoop down upon it and make an end of it—even so, O Menelaus, did your keen eyes range round the mighty host of your followers to see if you could find the son of Nestor still alive.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The king, hearing this, said in himself, 'It may be this woman is sent me of God; why should I not make proof of her knowledge, since she saith she will, without annoy of mine, cure me in little time?' Accordingly, being resolved to essay her, he said, 'Damsel, and if you cure us not, after causing us break our resolution, what will you have ensue to you therefor?'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Nagkulikutkut siya sa kasakit sa íyang tiyan, He is curled up because of his stomach ache.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

While we were weak and feeble, self-preservation concentrated our attention on ourselves; now that we are strong and powerful, the desire for a wider sphere carries us beyond ourselves as far as our eyes can reach.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Three times I came upon bends of the same broad rivulet.
— from Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Basil Wilson Duke

At this moment the landlord came up, bringing on a tray two glasses filled with some steaming liquor.
— from Guy Harris, the Runaway by Harry Castlemon

The trail came up back of the bluff, through a clump of aspens with white trunks and yellow fluttering leaves, and led across a level bench of luxuriant grass and wild flowers to the rocky edge.
— from The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey

"It won't take very long at this rate to clear us both out.
— from Nelly's Silver Mine: A Story of Colorado Life by Helen Hunt Jackson

When there came ugly bits of the road, Harriet read out Humboldt's fifth volume; and I was charmed with it, and enjoyed it the more from the reflection that Lucy can share this pleasure with us.
— from The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Maria Edgeworth

As for the closer union between our Colonists and ourselves, it will hardly be promoted by asking them to sacrifice their commercial freedom to increase the profits of our manufacturers, nor by taxing our food to please their farmers.
— from Are We Ruined by the Germans? by Harold Cox

You come up by one of the Citizen boats to Chelsea after business hours, and stroll into the garden and view the balloon, or sit out the ballet, or gaze with a leaden eye upon the riders, and the clowns, and the dancing, or the fireworks, and return home in decent time to bed; and if you waste a pound or two, you can afford it.
— from The Night Side of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

Her thick black hair was coiled up becomingly on her graceful little head, and, with a bunch of sweet peas at her belt, there could scarcely have been seen a prettier maiden.
— from Light O' the Morning: The Story of an Irish Girl by L. T. Meade

They are sometimes very curiously cut and stained, [Pg 46] and for certain uses bound or tipped with silver.
— from Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South America (Vol 1 of 3) Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results by Stevenson, William Bennet, active 1803-1825