And then Mary Lennox was led up a broad staircase and down a long corridor and up a short flight of steps and through another corridor and another, until a door opened in a wall and she found herself in a room with a fire in it and a supper on a table.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Falsus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret / Quem nisi mendosum et medicandum —Undeserved honour delights, and lying calumny alarms no one but him who is full of falsehood and needs to be reformed.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

George Phranza, Michael Ducas, and Laonicus Chalcondyles, all three wrote after the taking of Constantinople.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It has eaves, and windows, and balconies, and a door, and little cows and sheep, and men and women, all in pretty white wood!
— from Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

[5] Debido a lo cual, And as a consequence of that .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The reign of those villains who had made me a captive drew to a close; but the dawn appeared, Lawrence came as usual, and told me nothing new.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Jurgis had long ago cast off his fertilizer clothing, and since going into politics he had donned a linen collar and a greasy red necktie.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The drooping cattle dread the impending skies, And from his half-till'd field the labourer flies: In such a form the goddess round her drew A livid cloud, and to the battle flew.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The dawn at length came; and as the mists of night rolled off, we saw before us a range of lofty mountains, of picturesque shapes, rising out of a plain, the shore of which was not more than a quarter of a mile off.
— from A Voyage round the World A book for boys by William Henry Giles Kingston

As he lay in prison, old Dr. Tusher fell ill and died; and Lady Castlewood appointed Thomas Tusher to the vacant living; about the filling of which she had a thousand times fondly talked to Harry Esmond: how they never should part; how he should educate her boy; how to be a country clergyman, like saintly George Herbert, or pious Dr. Ken, was the happiness and greatest lot in life; how (if he were obstinately bent on it, though, for her part, she owned rather to holding Queen Bess's opinion, that a bishop should have no wife, and if not a bishop why a clergyman?)
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

This had the desired effect; and numerous ludicrous scenes was the result, which defy anything like communication, and enthusiastic, stage-struck, inexperienced youths afforded these pretended managers sport and roars of laughter, night after night.
— from The True History of Tom & Jerry or, The Day and Night Scenes, of Life in London from the Start to the Finish! by W. T. (William Thomas) Moncrieff

West Smithfield had its horse-pond, its pool of Dame Annis le Cleare, and the Perilous Pond.
— from The Ornithology of Shakespeare Critically examined, explained and illustrated by James Edmund Harting

Then they unbound him and gave him fifteen minutes to dress and leave Canada, and gave him a quarter to go with, keeping his watch and purse, which contained about forty dollars.
— from A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland by Laura S. (Laura Smith) Haviland

Mr. Haydon knelt down and looked carefully around the sides of the square hole left in the floor.
— from Jack Haydon's Quest by John Finnemore

Ben Jackson said, "Boys, if you will shoot pretty lively at this edge of that side-draw, and up the main draw a little, Cook and I will crawl down and bring up a couple of bootfuls of water."
— from The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain by John R. Cook

Audubon occurs north and east of stations in Riley, Pottawatomie, Douglas, and Linn counties, and T. b. cryptus Oberholser is found south of stations in Greeley, Stafford, and Linn counties; a zone of intergradation occurs between the two named populations.
— from The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Richard F. Johnston

Cutaneous diseases are less common amongst the natives here than amongst those in the south of China, probably owing to the more healthy nature of the climate.
— from Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China Including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries; with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc. by Robert Fortune

The man he had passed had drawn a little closer; another man in an apparently aimless fashion lounged a few yards away.
— from The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard