"Tis merry, 'tis merry, in Fairy-land, When fairy birds are singing, When the court cloth ride by their monarch's side, With bit and bridle ringing: 'And gayly shines the Fairy-land—
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

It is a disease, I was told, arising from exhausting toil too soon after hard, abnormal and unassisted labor in childbirth, and from the hopeless misery, from beatings, and so on, which some women were not able to endure like others.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is situated on a spot which is surrounded and fortified by a smooth and level rock (petra), which externally is abrupt and precipitous, but within there are abundant springs of water both for domestic purposes and for watering gardens.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

When it was fully daylight the doctor and the examining magistrate put on their fur coats and felt boots, and, saying good-by to their host, went out.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In a little narrow corridor, near by, they showed us where many a prisoner, after lying in the dungeons until he was forgotten by all save his persecutors, was brought by masked executioners and garroted, or sewed up in a sack, passed through a little window to a boat, at dead of night, and taken to some remote spot and drowned.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Amongst his other publications may be mentioned "Emma Herdman, Missionary Labours in the Empire of Morocco" (1900); "The Fountain of Siena, an Episode in the Life of John Ruskin" (1900); "In the Lord," a series of articles, published in the "English Churchman" (1901); a series of articles entitled "The Tabernacle and the Temple," published in the "Protestant Alliance" magazine (1902); followed by a second series in the same magazine, (1903), entitled "The Protestants of the [288] Bible"; and "The New Vicar" (1903), published posthumously.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

" His first rush of inarticulate resentment had been followed by a steadiness and concentration of tone more disconcerting to Lily than the excitement preceding it.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Another lancer, observing this struggle, galloped up and tried to spear the major and relieve his officer; but the former, by a sudden jerk and desperate exertion, placed the French officer uppermost, who received the mortal thrust below his cuirass and continued lying upon the major’s body for near ten minutes, sword in hand.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Egypt trembled at their approach; and the monks and pilgrims of the Holy Land prepared to escape their fury by a speedy embarkation.
— 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

While he was attacking one tribesman, another came up from behind, and struck him a heavy blow on the shoulder with a sword.
— from The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War by Winston Churchill

I could have wished them all to the devil, for instead of comforting us they only increased our fears; but at such times women will get together and cry out all at once; you can't talk reason to them; they like these loud cryings and groanings.
— from The Blockade of Phalsburg: An Episode of the End of the Empire by Erckmann-Chatrian

The cartridge missed fire, and at the same moment the middle bull, which had appeared small, lifted his head from behind a small euphorbia and showed a pair of very massive tusks, almost black from use.
— from From the Cape to Cairo: The First Traverse of Africa from South to North by Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Sharp

It seems hardly credible that three hundred should have left in their families but a single male child, below the age of puberty, but such is the statement.
— from Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization by Lewis Henry Morgan

Here's where I get paid for being a silly gump.
— from Afloat; or, Adventures on Watery Trails by Douglas, Alan, Captain

A furious blaze and stifling smoke instantly ascended the chimney, and brought down two of the enemy, who lay at her mercy.
— from The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection by Various

Free trade is free buying and selling, not free stealing."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

'Poison,' 'contagious' and 'loaden,' also abound in Fletcher, but are sometimes used by Beaumont.
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley

The almshouses he built for Burford are still to be seen hard by the grand old church.
— from A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire by J. Arthur (Joseph Arthur) Gibbs