He tossed his glass to his mouth, finished his drink and laughed loudly.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

Ma poscia ch'ebber colto lor viaggio su per la punta, dandole quel guizzo che dato avea la lingua in lor passaggio, udimmo dire:
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The day after Longstreet left Loudon, Sherman reached Bridgeport in person and proceeded on to see me that evening, the 14th, and reached Chattanooga the next day.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

“And do all ladies’ legs and ankles produce this effect upon you?”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The Wolf and the Lamb Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside, when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just beginning to drink a little lower down.
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop

He found himself, then, about twenty-four hours behind-hand, thirty-five days after leaving London.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Let down a lighted lamp, and if it keeps on burning, a man may make the descent without danger.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

I figured I'd just do some random surfing with it every day, a little less each day, so that anyone watching would see me slowly changing my habits, not doing a sudden reversal.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

It is vanity to desire a long life, and to have little care for a good life.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

3. There were ponies, little dogs and little lions and camels.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

"Which shall I strike at?" asked Perseus, drawing his sword and descending a little lower.
— from A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The dear old General was one of the earliest and most cherished friends of my father and mother, and has always held a warm place in the hearts of the children of Julia Dent and Lieutenant (later, General & President of the United States)
— from Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official Records by Helen Dortch Longstreet

Rupert Brooke said it just perfectly, Marko: "And think, this heart, all evil shed, away.... Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven."
— from If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

There were some queer clothes, too, which had been brought from savage countries, and the lady took down a large leather sack-bag from among them.
— from Round the Fire Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

One man ran about displaying a laced lady's boot at the end of a walking-stick, which boot had been carried into his kitchen, and was useless unless he could discover the fellow.
— from The Pennycomequicks, Volume 1 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

I was dismissed without a kiss from those dear and lovely lips.
— from L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

One day, a little later in that same December, Tom and I had taken the road by way of General De Lancey's country mansion at Bloomingdale, rather than our usual course, which lay past the Murray house of Incledon.
— from Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens