This wretch was clad in frock and cowl, And shamed not loud to moan and howl, His body on the floor to dash, And crouch, like hound beneath the lash; While his mute partner, standing near, Waited her doom without a tear.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

—¿No procuran los agricultores imponer sus precios de acuerdo con las condiciones de las plazas importadoras?
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Enter with drum and colours, Lear, Cordelia and their Forces, and exeunt.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"The demagogues of this province have raised the devil, and cannot lay him again.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

From top to bottom they inspected the door to discover a crack large enough for him to get through, and soon found one.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

That thought was double, and consisted, like the bits of information in the Child's Guide to Knowledge, of a question and an answer.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

[3] This would give Dio a considerably longer life than is commonly allowed him.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

"Don't you know that it's a crime to desecrate a cemetery lot?"
— from Sube Cane by Bellamy Partridge

Among Sard's papers he discovered a cipher letter from Rotterdam—probably from Quintana.
— from The Flaming Jewel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

On the same day, at Concord, less than four hundred undisciplined militia met a regiment of the enemy, fired upon them, put them to flight, and compelled them to retire to their intrenchments at Boston.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

Sit down and cry, like the children?
— from The Teaching of Epictetus Being the 'Encheiridion of Epictetus,' with Selections from the 'Dissertations' and 'Fragments' by Epictetus

She feels deeply and copiously like M. Alphonse de Lamartine in his Confessions.
— from Condensed Novels by Bret Harte

One fine cartoon from the hand of another artist also drew Rossetti’s delighted attention, “Caractacus led Captive in Triumph through the Streets of Rome,” by G.F. Watts, a painter worthily representative of the noblest phase of Pre-Raphaelite work, though never openly associated with the movement.
— from Dante Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite movement by Esther (of Hampstead) Wood

Their cries and tears will be too late; they will stand without and vehemently cry, "Lord, Lord, open unto us"; in vain will be their outcry, "the devils are coming; Lord, Lord, the pit opens her mouth upon us; Lord, Lord, there is nothing but hell and damnation left us, if thou hast not mercy upon us."
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

The tiny old lady in the black dress and curious little black bonnet had at first seemed alarmed at the sound made by her feet upon the stone pavements.
— from The Open Boat and Other Stories by Stephen Crane