"Why are they sending me for a soldier?" said Vasya, looking his friend straight in the face.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He was to throw sunlight into some deep recess of the forest, and seek subsistence from the virgin bosom of the wilderness.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As they dragged along the ground they fell asleep standing, stopped, woke up, moved another step and slept again.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Two or three men held her, and the burning portion of her gown was snatched off and thrown flaming aside, she struggling all the while to free herself, and saying she would be alone in the world, now; and begging to be allowed to die with her mother.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

So far as schools still teach from textbooks and rely upon the principle of authority and acquisition rather than upon that of discovery and inquiry, their methods are Scholastic—minus the logical accuracy and system of Scholasticism at its best.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

And with that Apollyon spread forth his dragon's wings, and sped him away, that Christian for a season saw him no more.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

One of these was the 'P.C.', for as secret societies were the fashion, it was thought proper to have one, and as all of the girls admired Dickens, they called themselves the Pickwick Club.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Presently, however, in 1813, a religious revival led to dangerous discussions, and the ministers were bound "to abstain from all sectarian spirit, to avoid all that would create any schism and break the union of the Church"—an addition suppressed towards 1850; and in 1817, they were required to pledge themselves to abstain from discussing four points in particular—the manner of the union of the divine and human nature in the person of Jesus Christ; original sin; the manner in which grace operates, or saving grace; and predestination; and, if led to utter their thoughts on any one of these subjects, they were "to do so without too much positiveness, to avoid expressions foreign to the Holy Scriptures, and to use, as much as possible, the terms which they employ".
— from Practical Essays by Alexander Bain

A yellow mist rose from a swamp somewhere inland and the disk grew to a greater size than I had ever seen.
— from In Search of Mademoiselle by George Gibbs

"We'd better be on the lookout for a soft spot."
— from The Alien by Raymond F. Jones

As he was looking at the faces in the carriages, the jewels and feathers and shining stuffs, he thought suddenly and sharply of Phoebe sitting alone at her supper in the tiny cottage room.
— from Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

He hastily planed upwards, in case, by some error of navigation, he had come upon land and might endanger the aeroplane among hills or tree-tops, and also to avoid the risk of explosion from a stray spark.
— from Round the World in Seven Days by Herbert Strang

There is [Pg 287] a fine little melon, called the orange-melon, because the flesh and skin separate like an orange.
— from Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature by J. H. Walden

“Four an’ six!” screamed William.
— from Just William by Richmal Crompton

When they had all kissed him, and his mother's earnest look had bidden him remember what had passed between them that morning, he was lifted up by his father, and received by the two men, between whom he found a safe seat.
— from The Crofton Boys by Harriet Martineau

He also, in his turn, felt a singular sensation of fright, wondering what that package contained, and if Marsa's fate and his own were not connected with some unknown thing within it.
— from Prince Zilah — Volume 2 by Jules Claretie