Inside was a beautiful stretch of lawn with an old sundial in the middle, the whole effect so soothing and restful that it was welcome to my somewhat jangled nerves.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

As fury lit Kaikeyí's eyes She spoke with long and burning sighs: [pg 099] “This day my son enthroned shall see, And Ráma to the woods shall flee.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

On the first news of the emperor's death, the troops expressed some suspicion and resentment, till the one was removed, and the other assuaged, by a donative of twenty pieces of gold to each soldier.
— 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

This being flushed with ruddy thrills from the glances of the evening sun shed a rich tint through the room, as if the rugged mountains vied with heaven to bring their sweet Princess a tribute of bright roses.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Finally, he studied the map for a considerable time in silence, and then folded up each sheet separately, and replaced them in the bookstand that stood on the table.
— from The Relentless City by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

If Miss Ruthyn would be so very good as to favour him with ever so short a reply to the question he ventures most respectfully to ask, her decision would reach him at the Hall Hotel, Feltram.'
— from Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

"And you really think Braxton Bragg and Princewood will eat up the field," she said ever so sweetly and respectfully to the old General.
— from Jack Ballington, Forester by John Trotwood Moore

The answer to the Emperor’s order that stringent measures should be taken against the Lutheran heresy, and that the Edict of Worms should be carried out, was, that the towns, under the leadership of Nuremberg, banded themselves together with the Lutheran princes, and at the Diet of Spires (1526) it was decreed that “Each State should, as regards the Diet of Worms, so live, rule, and bear itself as it thought it could answer to God and the Empire.”
— from The Story of Nuremberg by Cecil Headlam

The cirrhus clouds high up in the zenith, or far off in the cool east, still showed a rosy tint; but excepting these, the war of the giants--the ever-recurring tragedy of light and darkness--had played itself to an end.
— from True to a Type, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Robert Cleland