The wanderer, decoyed into the enchanted castle, heard rising, outside, the spell-wakened tempest.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

In the beginning, only coffee was dispensed in the English coffee houses.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Charles sat himself down in the easiest chair he could find, and got hold of "Ruskin's Modern Painters."
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

In ancient days, when he had come into North Bromwich shopping with his mother, Edwin had p. 265 always been taken to Battie’s, the great confectioner’s in Queen Street, but now, passing the doors in this exalted company, he felt that the company of a crowd of shabby shopping women would hardly be suitable: besides, he might even run the risk of meeting his Aunt Laura, who also frequented the shop, so he left Battie’s prudently alone.
— from The Young Physician by Francis Brett Young

I always thought Mr. Roscoe a very judicious and sensible man, and I still hope, that though he has diverged into this eccentric course, his good sense will, on cool reflection, induce him to return."
— from The Sheepfold and the Common; Or, Within and Without. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Timothy East

To allay all suspicions of a Ritualistic tendency which had, he says, “unjustly, though not unnaturally risen,” he declares to his flock his belief that “the practices commonly known as Ritualistic are as much opposed to the spirit and structure of the Prayer-book as they were for the most part unknown in the worship of the Church in the apostolic age, and that every decision in the ecclesiastical courts had made this conclusion more plain.”
— from The Church Index A Book of Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise: Part I. Kensington by William Pepperell

Mr. Maule was dressed in the evening clothes he had put on early before saying good-bye to Jane Oglander.
— from Jane Oglander by Marie Belloc Lowndes

The balls and horse-races of former days in the eastern counties had, in a large measure, ceased.
— from School History of North Carolina : from 1584 to the present time by John W. (John Wheeler) Moore

What has thus far been developed in this essay, concerning Hawthorne's personality, though incidental, has, I hope, served the end in view,—that of suggesting a large, healthy nature, capable of the most profound thought and the most graceful and humorous mental play.
— from A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop

“There was so much to do in town,” explained Christian, hazily.
— from Gloria Mundi by Harold Frederic

Indeed, Skamperoo's first day in the Emerald City had been so full and so interesting he had not made a single wish or once thought of his magic emeralds.
— from The Wishing Horse of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson