"When you take kings—or kings take you— Sing to them and their pretty dears; I'm hungry, and know what to do— An empty stomach has no ears."
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

He wrote from the Hague, to Mr. Wyche, 'At my first arrival I received the news of my father's death, and ever since have been engaged in so much noise and company, that it was impossible for me to think of rhyming in it.'
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Very much flushed, she watched the strange creature, apparently quite unconscious she had done anything extraordinary, shaking hands with Mr. Briggs, on her husband's introducing him, and immediately embarking on the friendliest conversation with him, exactly as if she had known him all her life.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

In fact (not to attribute the whole gloom of sky and earth to the one inauspicious circumstance of Phoebe's departure), an easterly storm had set in, and indefatigably apply itself to the task of making the black roof and walls of the old house look more cheerless than ever before.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

His Christianity was not confined to his own denomination; and every Sabbath his log cottage was filled with attentive auditors, of all persuasions, who met together to listen to the word of life delivered to them by a Christian minister in the wilderness.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

"Did anyone else see him besides you when he called?"
— from The Rider of Waroona by G. Firth Scott

During eleven days, and even sixteen hours of the twelfth, it remains in a state of complete repose.
— from Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby

He had been thinking of paying Miss Maubray a visit, but he had not avowed, even to himself, how high his hopes had mounted; and here was, in Lady May's ominous manner and determined evasion, matter to disturb and even shock him.
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

In detail almost every seam has some individual peculiarity, but the following represents two types of typical seams.
— from Ancient Plants Being a Simple Account of the past Vegetation of the Earth and of the Recent Important Discoveries Made in This Realm of Nature by Marie Carmichael Stopes

SUMMA CUM DILIGENTIA, SOLERTIA, FELICITATE COLUIT, EXERCUIT, DOCUIT, AUXIT, ET SCRIPTIS HOC MARMORE PERENNIORIBUS 368 POSTERITATI TRADIDIT,
— from Memoirs of John Abernethy With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character; with Additional Extracts from Original Documents, Now First Published by George Macilwain

Did anybody ever see hair like that?
— from Peter by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

To think of her drifting about Europe so handicapped and lonely!
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery by John Galsworthy

"Did anything else significant happen before Chief Gage arrived?"
— from The Trial of Callista Blake by Edgar Pangborn

Our Men landed on that Side, and were oppos’d by the Ternates ; but Night put an End to the Fight, and both Parties retiring to their Fastnesses, our Cannon was landed, and planted in the Place, and after such Manner as Paul de Lima directed, and ever since he commanded it in the Fort of Tydore .
— from The Discovery and Conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands. Containing their History, Ancient and Modern, Natural and Political: Their Description, Product, Religion, Government, Laws, Languages, Customs, Manners, Habits, Shape, and Inclinations of the Natives. With an Account of many other adjacent Islands, and several remarkable Voyages through the Streights of Magellan, and in other Parts. by Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola

And while he is confused with his fall, Pollenté leaps into the river and takes him at a disadvantage, and either slays him outright or causes him to drown.
— from The Faery Queen and Her Knights: Stories Retold from Edmund Spenser by Alfred John Church