The servant remounted the stairs to give the message to the doctor, and the moment she was out of sight the tailor and his wife carried the body swiftly after her, propped it up at the top of the staircase, and ran home as fast as their legs could carry them.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

The donkeys and the men, women, and children of a family all eat and sleep in the same room, and are unclean, are ravaged by vermin, and are truly happy.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

What was he doing at this moment?
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

As she went away he even escorted her in the royal chariot, requiting evil with good; for he regarded the kinship of his sister rather than her disposition, and took more thought for his own good name than of her iniquity.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Home and to dinner, and then my wife and Deb.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In those respects the republic must soon (if she does not already) outstrip all examples hitherto afforded, and dominate the world.{20} Admitting all this, with the priceless value of our political institutions, general suffrage, (and fully acknowledging the latest, widest opening of the doors,) I say that, far deeper than these, what finally and only is to make of our western world a nationality superior to any hither known, and out-topping the past, must be vigorous, yet unsuspected Literatures, perfect personalities and sociologies, original, transcendental, and expressing (what, in highest sense, are not yet express'd at all,) democracy and the modern.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

" Christine again looked at the doctor and the maid; and all three began to laugh.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

I pushed against the door, and to my inexpressible terror found that it was fastened on the outside.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

So to the ‘Change, and then home to dinner and to my office, where till 10 at night very busy, and so home to supper and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This action produced a deadlock, and three meetings were held between the Federation Board and the owners—on November 29th in Durham, and on December 1st and 2nd in Newcastle.
— from A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904 by John Wilson

Before she was dead ahead the mate ordered the wheel amidships, and the Lancashire Lass did the rest herself.
— from The Diva's Ruby by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Whatever the cause, his nervousness became heightened rather than diminished, as they marched on; and anxiously longed he to be on the other side of the Severn.
— from No Quarter! by Mayne Reid

However, there has been no harm done, according to Mr. Purvis."
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 17, February 1899, No. 98. by Various

If there is deficiency of one, the other members of the directorate attempt to make up for what has been lost, and to carry on its work by an extra effort, to substitute.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman

And with that fresh hope it came to me that I must find a way so to dispose as to make him believe that to search would be a futile waste of energy.
— from The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Rafael Sabatini

Happily you, though his daughter, are taking measures to thwart his plans.”
— from The Bomb-Makers Being Some Curious Records Concerning the Craft and Cunning of Theodore Drost, an Enemy Alien in London, Together with Certain Revelations Regarding His Daughter Ella by William Le Queux

Although dogs are the most intelligent of all animals and at the same time proverbial for their faithful attachment to their masters, they are nevertheless, as I have before pointed out, in their sexual relations utterly incapable of that approximation to conjugal love which we find instinctive in some birds.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

[Pg 65] With a d'Artagnan-like gaiety of zest, he had tackled and deflected a bull that had charged head down at the Mistress.
— from Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune