Then all the flowers opened, and out of each came a little lady or a tiny lord, all so pretty it was quite a pleasure to look at them.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He then went out backward, and when he was in the antechamber the cardinal heard him, in his enthusiasm, crying aloud, “Long life to the Monseigneur!
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

"You do know her, and she helps you better than any one else could," answered Laurie, looking at her with such mischievous meaning in his merry black eyes, that Beth suddenly turned very red, and hid her face in the sofa-cushion, quite overcome by such an unexpected discovery.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

"You do know her, and she helps you better than anyone else could," answered Laurie, looking at her with such mischievous meaning in his merry black eyes that Beth suddenly turned very red, and hid her face in the sofa cushion, quite overcome by such an unexpected discovery.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Since his abandonment, he had become, under the name of Ben Joyce, the leader of the escaped convicts; and if he boldly maintained that the wreck had taken place on the east coast, and led Lord Glenarvan to proceed in that direction, it was that he hoped to separate him from his ship, seize the ‘Duncan,’ and make the yacht a pirate in the Pacific.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Your evident concern at leaving London is very natural, and yet it afflicts me.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

e chin and full red lips, entered carrying a large loaded tray.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

She was not to be so easily checked, and laughed loudly, flourishing her violets in his face again.
— from Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

S'il n'y est mis et ordonné on trouvera que de cinquante en cinquante ans la langue françoise pour la plus grande part sera changée et pervertie" (folio 1, verso).
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

S’ils ne comprennent pas la poèsie, s’ils ne sentent pas la musique, qu’est ce qu’ils peuvent comprendre de cette passion en comparaison avec laquelle la rose est grossière et le parfum des violettes un tonnerre ?” CAID ALI F or three years, diabolus in the scale, He drank ambrosia, All passes, ANANGKE prevails, Came end, at last, to that Arcadia.
— from Poems 1918-21, Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos by Ezra Pound

The mate told us that there were a great many of the English crew and Lascars left on board, and he thought, should they make the attempt, they would be able to retake the ship from the Frenchmen.
— from Ben Burton: Born and Bred at Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

exclaimed Charley a little later.
— from Left on the Labrador: A Tale of Adventure Down North by Dillon Wallace

We leave at 11, and drive to Ardrahan, and there get a train southward into County Clare, and at Ennis catch a little loopline to the coast.
— from William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by His Wife Elizabeth A. Sharp by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Amelia) Sharp

For months it was believed at the German Embassy in London that England was faced with volcanic labour disturbances; Sir Edward Carson and Lady Londonderry on one side, Mr. Asquith and Mr. Birrell on the other had brought Ireland to the brink of civil war; and a government which could not restrain unruly women from breaking windows and burning churches was not an efficient machine for waging a war in which the last ounce of ability and determination would tip the balance.
— from While I Remember by Stephen McKenna

And when, after an hour’s earnest conference a little later on in the day, and a tour of the estate in the company of Don Hermoso, Carlos, and Jack, Antonio Maceo took his leave, in order to return to his men among the mountains, he expressed the opinion that, given an ample supply of ammunition, and a sufficient store of provisions, it was just possible that Don Hermoso might be able to hold even Weyler and his sixty thousand men at bay.
— from The Cruise of the Thetis: A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Harry Collingwood