Don Quixote and Sancho got up rather shaken, and, looking about them, were filled with amazement at finding themselves in the same garden from which they had started, and seeing such a number of people stretched on the ground; and their astonishment was increased when at one side of the garden they perceived a tall lance planted in the ground, and hanging from it by two cords of green silk a smooth white parchment on which there was the following inscription in large gold letters: "The illustrious knight Don Quixote of La Mancha has, by merely attempting it, finished and concluded the adventure of the Countess Trifaldi, otherwise called the Distressed Duenna; Malambruno is now satisfied on every point, the chins of the duennas are now smooth and clean, and King Don Clavijo and Queen Antonomasia in their original form; and when the squirely flagellation shall have been completed, the white dove shall find herself delivered from the pestiferous gerfalcons that persecute her, and in the arms of her beloved mat
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Meanwhile Arabella, in her journey to discover what was going on, took a short cut down a narrow street and through an obscure nook into the quad of Cardinal.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

I am heartily glad that you have escaped any share in the impurities of [66] Deane, and not sorry, as it turns out, that our stay here has been lengthened.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

Ha un punto sentí a las dos A while ago I heard both leave salir de aquí, no sé a qué.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

How did day and night, sun and moon, earth and water, and fire come?
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

When I got upon deck, a new scene and a new experience were before me.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

He chose the darkest and narrowest streets and, as he walked boldly forward, the silence that was spread about his footsteps troubled him, the wandering silent figures troubled him; and at times a sound of low fugitive laughter made him tremble like a leaf.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

My journey seemed tedious—very tedious: fifty miles one day, a night spent at an inn; fifty miles the next day.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Though Shatov and Kirillov lived in the same yard they hardly ever saw each other, and when they met they did not nod or speak: they had been too long “lying side by side” in America.… “Kirillov, you always have tea; have you got tea and a samovar?” Kirillov, who was walking up and down the room, as he was in the habit of doing all night, stopped and looked intently at his hurried visitor, though without much surprise.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The bodily works of mercy which Christians perform with so much tact and devotion are not such as philanthropy alone would inspire; they are more and less than that.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

From Mosha Kronberg's tenement house on Madison Street to the cloak and suit district, at Nineteenth Street and Fifth Avenue, is less than two miles as the crow flies, but Morris Perlmutter's journey uptown was accomplished in less direct fashion.
— from Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass

John graced the occasion by donning a new suit and new boots, in which the crooked giant was singularly ill at ease.
— from The Revellers by Louis Tracy

On my morning walk I detected a new song, and, following it up, found a new bird,—a result which is far from being a thing of course.
— from Birds in the Bush by Bradford Torrey

She has no central head, with spies penetrating all domestic and national secrets, and communicating to it the information they have acquired.
— from Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger

Even on the loftiest of them there was neither grass, bush, nor tree to break the jagged outlines, but day and night, summer and 194 winter long, the sea-birds clamored over them, and brooded by the myriad on their upper ledges.
— from Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

He was quite happy about it, and I suppose his travels had been peaceful, for days and nights such as these men spent coming down the Beardmore will give you nightmare after nightmare, and wake you shrieking—years after.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The docks and naval storehouses are within the precinct of Portsea; the hospital and the victualling establishment are at Gosport; and the offices of the Port Admiral and the residence of the Lieutenant-Governor are at Portsmouth, within the lines of which are also the barracks for the accommodation of the garrison.
— from The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain Vol. 2 by W. (William) Finden