It was more especially when this man was speaking in a manner half jesting, half bitter, that Franz’s ear recalled most vividly the deep sonorous, yet well-pitched voice that had addressed him in the grotto of Monte Cristo, and which he heard for the second time amid the darkness and ruined grandeur of the Colosseum.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

We crossed broad natural lawns sparkling with dew, and we moved like spirits, the cushioned turf giving out no sound of footfall; we dreamed along through glades in a mist of green light that got its tint from the sun-drenched roof of leaves overhead, and by our feet the clearest and coldest of runlets went frisking and gossiping over its reefs and making a sort of whispering music, comfortable to hear; and at times we left the world behind and entered into the solemn great deeps and rich gloom of the forest, where furtive wild things whisked and scurried by and were gone before you could even get your eye on the place where the noise was; and where only the earliest birds were turning out and getting to business with a song here and a quarrel yonder and a mysterious far-off hammering and drumming for worms on a tree trunk away somewhere in the impenetrable remotenesses of the woods.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Perhaps she did not feel like smiling or perhaps she detected a real grain of serious purpose behind Rilla's romantic pose.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Now, Miss Tuppence, my advice to you is to go and have a good dinner, a really good one, mind.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

The blaze from the sugar-bush gleams red; Far down in the forest dark, A ruddy glow on the trees is shed, That lights up their rugged bark; And with merry shout, The busy rout Watch the sap as it bubbles high;
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

He was suffering from disappointment and regret, grieving over what was, and wishing for what could never be.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

He made another discovery altogether different, a real gem of its kind.
— from William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké

The dressing-table displayed a variety of dainty articles such as a lady might be supposed to use,—pearl-handled brushes, enamelled powder-boxes, slender vases of Meissen porcelain, a fanciful ring-stand; from the half-open drawer a rich glimpse of an Indian fan; a pair of delicate kid gloves, which only a woman's hands could have worn, were thrown carelessly on the table.
— from Idolatry: A Romance by Julian Hawthorne

Cromwell had obtained some information of these intrigues; but, unable to discover any real ground of suspicion, he contented himself with putting Monk on his guard by a bantering postscript to one of his letters.
— from The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Hilaire Belloc

The phrase Natural Classification seems most peculiarly appropriate to such arrangements as correspond, in the groups which they form, to the spontaneous tendencies of the mind, by placing together the objects most similar in their general aspect; in opposition to those technical systems which, arranging things according to their agreement in some circumstance arbitrarily selected, often throw into the same group objects which in the general aggregate of their properties present no resemblance, and into different and remote groups, others which have the closest similarity.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

She had been saving the crystal-beaded 233 frock for what she might deem a really great occasion.
— from Marjorie Dean, Marvelous Manager by Josephine Chase

Having demanded and received guarantee of the "ancient and undoubted rights and privileges of the Commons," the Speaker and the members then retire to their own quarters, where the necessary oaths are administered.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

Even the Senate of the United States, beholding this great ruin around them, beholding Dismemberment and Revolution going on, and Civil War threatened as the result, have been able to do nothing; we have absolutely done nothing.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

I listened to the wind who speaks of finding Among the litter of his blown leaves of days All rainbow gold of tears that are so blinding;
— from Perpetual Light : a memorial by William Rose Benét

Many remarks upon Hanno's voyage are made by Compomanes, Antigüedad Marítima de la República de Cartago , Madrid 1756; Bougainville, Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions , tom. xxvi., xxviii.; Gosselin, Recherches sur la Géographie des Anciens ; Rennell, Geography of Herodotus , vol.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft