But the child, being free, could easily go to a neighboring city, negotiate with some dealer and sell him one diamond or two diamonds, as he might wish, upon condition that the money should be sent from Paris, and that proceeding could be repeated from year to year.”
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

Co. Health, Strength and Power D. A. Sargent Heroes of the Life-boat and Rocket Ballantyne Heroes of the Storm Douglas Life Boat and Its Work Lewis Nursing S. Virginia Leves Penn Pub.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

At nightfall you would see him rise with difficulty and, supporting himself on his cane, make his way to a narrow little by-street to enter a grimy building over the door of which may be seen in large red letters: FUMADERO PUBLICO DE ANFION.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

One was going to be married; another was ill, very ill, she had a dry cough, her face was growing thinner daily, and she had occasional fits.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the task were done and she had only to wait; so quietly that, as he came close, her outstretched hands acted not as a check but as a guide to him.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

And the talk, the wonderful talk flowed on—or was it speech entirely, or did it pass at times into song—chanty of the sailors weighing the dripping anchor, sonorous hum of the shrouds in a tearing North-Easter, ballad of the fisherman hauling his nets at sundown against an apricot sky, chords of guitar and mandoline from gondola or caique?
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

He was a Gascon of gigantic stature and bodily daring; and the wildest tales were told of his outbursts of athletic humour; how he turned the juge d’instruction upside down and stood him on his head, “to clear his mind”; how he ran down the Rue de Rivoli with a policeman under each arm.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

As he crossed, he looked down and saw his own shadow reflected in the water beneath.
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop

"But our true Life came down hither, and bore our death, and slew him, out of the abundance of His own life: and He thundered, calling aloud to us to return hence to Him into that secret place, whence He came forth to us, first into the Virgin's womb, wherein He espoused the human creation, our mortal flesh, that it might not be for ever mortal, and thence like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, rejoicing as a giant to run his course.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Herr Droi now came back again, undressed, laid "la grande nation" on a chair by the side of the bed, blew out his candle, lay down, and stretched himself out in the nice soft bed and said: "Ah! que c'est bon;" then listened to the storm outside and the rain pouring down and the jabbering of the Frenchmen.
— from In the Year '13: A Tale of Mecklenburg Life by Fritz Reuter

They waited quietly till he was near them, and then they both sprang upon the cowardly fellow, gave him a good drubbing, and sent him off with his tail between his legs.
— from True Stories about Dogs and Cats by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen

He would never be aught than guileless; it was not in his nature to divine anything save his own impulses.
— from The Carpet from Bagdad by Harold MacGrath

The foundations of life seemed to be subverted under his feet, Ameni’s revelation lifted him out of the dust and set him on the marble floor of a palace; and yet Pentaur was neither excessively surprised nor inordinately rejoiced; he was so well used to find his joys and sufferings depend on the man within him, and not on the circumstances without.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Complete by Georg Ebers

She hated divorce as she hated other vulgarities.
— from Shadows of Flames: A Novel by Amélie Rives

"Him God raised up the third day, and showed Him openly, not to all the people, but to witnesses chosen before God."
— from Cowley's Talks on Doctrine by Matthias F. Cowley

[127] Davidson and Stuvé, History of Illinois, pp.
— from Stephen A. Douglas: A Study in American Politics by Allen Johnson