After two hours' travelling over stony roads, across that green and monotonous plain, the vehicle entered one of those orchard farmyards and drew up before in old structure falling into decay, where an old maid-servant stood waiting beside a young fellow, who took charge of the horse.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Only look." Hjalmar looked at the table, and there stood the little card-board doll's house, with lights in all the windows, and drawn up before it were the tin soldiers presenting arms.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I likewise recommended to him the keeping my misfortune secret, and saying to my landlord, or any other who should inquire for me, that I was gone into the country for a few weeks: at the same time I laid strong injunctions upon him to call every second day upon Banter, in case he should receive any letter for me from Narcissa, by the channel of Freeman; and by all means to leave a direction for himself at my uncle's lodgings in Wapping, by which I might be found when my kinsman should arrive.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I am sure I knew nothing about him, except that he had originally been alone in the business, and now lived by himself in a house near Montagu Square, which was fearfully in want of painting; that he came very late of a day, and went away very early; that he never appeared to be consulted about anything; and that he had a dingy little black-hole of his own upstairs, where no business was ever done, and where there was a yellow old cartridge-paper pad upon his desk, unsoiled by ink, and reported to be twenty years of age.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

At bottom the Nihilist supposes that the sight of such a desolate, useless Being is unsatisfying to the philosopher, and fills him with desolation and despair.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Ici , Perezvon!” Kolya slapped the bed and Perezvon darted up by Ilusha.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Soon after, Mrs. Selwyn came to tell me, that Lord Orville had been proposing I should take an airing, and persuading her to let him drive us both in his phaeton.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The reader, if he considers that this fellow was already obnoxious to Mr Western, and if he considers farther the weighty business by which that gentleman's displeasure had been incurred, will perhaps condemn this as a foolish and desperate undertaking; but if he should totally condemn young Jones on that account, he will greatly applaud him for strengthening himself with all imaginable interest on so arduous an occasion.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

“Therefore, if you are convinced by my arguments, let us, men and women, keep ourselves apart, as if a wall divided us; but, if it is becoming for men to have intercourse with men, for the future let women have intercourse with women.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

"Indeed I do, Uncle Ben, it's lots more fun," [52] said George, "besides we can ride in automobiles and street-cars when we are home."
— from Nabul, Our Little Egyptian Cousin by Blanche McManus

The Ukiyo e artists practiced a similar method in their hashirakake or long, narrow, panel-like prints of men and women used for decorating upright beams in a room.
— from On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan by Henry P. Bowie

A constitution was drawn up, but it was at no time really put into operation.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

I'm not going to involve myself in a dangerous undertaking; but I'm just sufficiently tired of my very comfortable existence to wish to make an experiment.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

We who saw the sovereigns of France and Sardinia walking down that ball-room together, little imagined what would be the ultimate consequences of their alliance—the establishment of the Italian kingdom, then of the German Empire, with the siege of Paris, the Commune, and the total destruction of the building that dazzled us by its splendor, and of the palace where the sovereigns slept that night.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton

For, first of all, according to the Christian idea, the spiritual class can not depend upon birth; it must possess a higher and peculiar vocation.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

'No; I had not seen him till after the death of my dear uncle, but I, somehow, often thought of and a little fretted about him.
— from The Pennycomequicks, Volume 2 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Noircarmes had drawn up beforehand, in his own handwriting, both the terms of the accusation and of the sentence.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley