One warm night during my first visit to the group, our ship was floating along in languid stillness, when some one on the forecastle shouted "Light ho!"
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

It makes a dog fiercer, and I love something fierce—get me a scissors—something fierce and trim!
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

I learned from General Hurlbut that General Osterhaus's division was already out in front of Corinth, and that General John E. Smith was still at Memphis, moving his troops and material by railroad as fast as its limited stock would carry them.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

“I have the right to fire as I like so long as I keep the rules,” Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch asserted resolutely.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We bathed occasionally, but the water was rather chilly, for all it looked so sunny.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

They were the young days of the influence now full grown, then slowly getting strength and winning the best minds away from an imported Latin style adapted to the taste of patrons who sought credit for nice critical discrimination.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

It was arranged between Richard and Moncharmin, first, that Richard should repeat the exact movements which he had made on the night of the disappearance of the first twenty-thousand francs; and, second, that Moncharmin should not for an instant lose sight of Richard's coat-tail pocket, into which Mme.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

There are now many stately mansions in that growing city, that sits like a fairy queen upon the shore of the charmed Ohio; but away from all its lofty structures and edifices of wealth, away from her public haunts, her galleries and halls, would I turn, to pay homage to the old "green pump"!
— from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Griffith Browne

unity for an imposter, Lambert Simnel, to personate the earl.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

His clever followers and imitators lack something which cannot be learned in an art school.
— from The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Henry Blackburn

weisii from Algeria; its larval stage lasts five days, and the flies hatch out of the puparia in another five days.”
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

It couldn't have been Barney, for all it looked so much like him."
— from Frank Merriwell's Reward by Burt L. Standish