On this the bird let the golden chain fall, and it fell exactly round the man's neck, and so exactly round it that it fitted beautifully.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

We shall first direct attention to the long string of corresponding events recorded in the sacred histories of ancient Hindoo Gods, as compared with those of Jesus Christ at a much later period.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

And Father Wolf taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the grass, every breath of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of a bat’s claws as it roosted for a while in a tree, and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business man.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

No moderate amount of happiness is ever recorded in the register which denotes how often its possessor has “had a GOOD TIME .”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Mrs. Bennet and her daughters then departed, and Elizabeth returned instantly to Jane, leaving her own and her relations' behaviour to the remarks of the two ladies and Mr. Darcy; the latter of whom, however, could not be prevailed on to join in their censure of her , in spite of all Miss Bingley's witticisms on fine eyes .
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

After a certain year we never saw her alone, but always accompanied by a friend, a girl older than herself, with an evil reputation in the neighbourhood, who in the end installed herself permanently, one day, at Montjouvain.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

A diddler is generally one who borrows money without any intention of ever repaying it; the sort of man who, having asked for half-a-crown and received [144] only a shilling, would consider that eighteenpence was owing to him.—From Raising the Wind .
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

It was exactly reproduced in the dress he now wore.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

On the approach of their fleets, the Genoese, with their families and effects, retired into the city: their empty habitations were reduced to ashes; and the feeble prince, who had viewed the destruction of his suburb, expressed his resentment, not by arms, but by ambassadors.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Before noon every room in the house, except the one where Dolly lay sick with a headache had been visited and examined minutely, while Frank watched him nervously, wondering if he would think they had greatly injured anything, or had expended too much money on furniture.
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

But in the golden dawn of the new day Walter Earle rode into the stable-yard.
— from Jaquelina by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Bugs Butler's mood, accordingly, when some thirty hours after the painful episode recorded in the last chapter he awoke from a state of coma in the ring at Jersey City to discover that Mr. Lew Lucas had knocked him out in the middle of the third round, should have been one of quiet contentment.
— from The Adventures of Sally by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

“And so am I glad,” he said, with a smile touched with sadness overspreading his face, as he saw the eager pleasant look that greeted him, one that he was well enough read in the human countenance to see had nothing in it but the hearty friendly welcome of an ingenuous maiden, who knew and liked him for his depth and conversation.
— from The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn

amp of a man from whom they expected to learn news more recent than the events reported in the paper the day they left civilization, seven weeks before.
— from The Book of Courage by John T. (John Thomson) Faris

The pleasing words of Christ easily resounded in the ears of slaves: they heard themselves declared children of God, and brethren of Jesus Christ; they saw that there was no distinction made between them and their masters, between them and the most powerful lords of the earth; is it, then, strange that men only accustomed to chains, to labor, to every kind of trouble and degradation, exaggerated the principles of Christian liberty, and made applications of them which were neither just in themselves, nor capable of being reduced to practice?
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

If Noble B ——— m , T HE late Duke of Buckingham! who made that fine Alteration of the Tragedy of Julius Cæsar from Shakespeare , and who is said by Mr. Pope to have bestow’d the finest Praise upon Homer that he ever received, in the following Lines; Read Homer once, and you need read no more;
— from Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast by Anonymous

"You can get 'every requisite' (isn't that the word?) in the Nice or Monte Carlo shops, if that's your only reason for delay."
— from My Friend the Chauffeur by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

But no one knows if he pronounces his mother-tongue in every respect in the same manner as he did twenty years ago.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

All the endless research into the nature of the species, and the possibility of several species descending from a common ancestor, has been closed to-day by the removal of the sharp limits that had been set up between species and varieties on the one hand, and species and genera on the other.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Haeckel