The whole steamer from end to end rang with frantic cheering that was taken up first by one and then by all in the crowding multitude of ships and boats that was driving out to sea.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Of course, she was the first to speak—intelligibly, I mean, for the emotional remarks which followed her impetuous "Oh, yes!" were not of a coherent or reportable character.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

The English reader will find an amusing account of the German Nibelungen and Heldenbuch, and of some of the Scandinavian Sagas, in the volume of Northern Antiquities published by Weber, the friend of Sir Walter Scott.
— 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

Maney of those plants produce those esculent roots which forms a principal part of the Subsistance of the Nativs.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But, ah! to paint her tenderness 'Twere all in vain to try; may be No art upon the earth resides Which for a task like this provides, To paint a soul in which combine Man's strength with graces feminine.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone; He swam the Esk river, where ford there was none; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late; For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

O fairest virgin, full of heavenly light, Whose wondrous faith exceeding earthly race, Was firmest fixt ° in mine extremest case.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Its inhabitants entertain relations with Ferghana, Botm, [9] and with the subjects of the Wakhan; they travel over most of these countries, and they take from them their iron, silver, precious stones, leopard skins, and Tibetan musk.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir

When at length the case in which our hero was so interested came before the courts, he was perfectly restored to health; and his straightforward evidence, the narrative of how he had set out from home to make his own way in the world, and his adventures en route won for him the good-will of hosts of people.
— from Under the Chinese Dragon: A Tale of Mongolia by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

Will it rain or shine?—No matter, though,’ I said to myself; ‘whichever it is, can one ever reckon with feminine caprice?
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Nor would any of human race merit his favour, but a very few, the philosophical Theists, who entertain, or rather indeed endeavour to entertain, suitable notions of his Divine perfections: As the only persons entitled to his compassion and indulgence would be the philosophical Sceptics, a sect almost equally rare, who, from a natural diffidence of their own capacity, suspend, or endeavour to suspend, all judgement with regard to such sublime and such extraordinary subjects.
— from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

she said, with a smile, as she walked round the sleeping girl with the muffled tread of a wild beast; "fair-haired girl, with lily complexion, your cheeks covered with the velvety down of a peach, will ere long be as pale as mine, and your eyes, red with fever, will no longer find tears to soothe them."
— from The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert by Gustave Aimard