He got up in haste and said, "A fall is lucky for a traveller.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The snow was falling in large flakes, and when I got to madame’s
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I confess, that the theory which subjects all things to the will of an indifferent deity, and asserts that they are all dependent on his fiat, is less far from the truth than the theory of those, who maintain that God acts in all things with a view of promoting what is good.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

First, when used as a fin for progression; Second, when used as a mace in battle; Third, in sweeping; Fourth, in lobtailing; Fifth, in peaking flukes.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

v 1 [A; ac] queue up, fall in line facing in the direction of the line; do, put in a row.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Something which may be called an inward silent sob had gone on in Dorothea before she said with a pure voice, just trembling in the last words as if only from its liquid flexibility— "Yes, it must be right for you to do as you say.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

he was beginning to fall in love for the first time!
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Ah, when I look in the glass and see my own dark eyes and clear-cut Spanish face, I long for a vitriol splash or a bout of the small-pox.
— from The Parasite: A Story by Arthur Conan Doyle

Brown, shining serpents, from four to six feet in length, frequently slid across our path.
— from The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor

DALE THE MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL IN LACKSAND FAITH AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE FOREST FAHLUN
— from Pictures of Sweden by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The following compound is often vended for it:— Labdanum, Facti′′tious.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

I am told that a society has been formed in London for collecting proofs of this more than Ovidian metamorphosis.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

The American small boy is precocious; but it is not with the erudite precocity of the German Heinecken, who at three years of age was intimately acquainted with history and geography ancient and modern, sacred and profane, besides being able to converse fluently in Latin, French, and German.
— from The Land of Contrasts: A Briton's View of His American Kin by James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead

There is but one thing busy, a starling, fetching grubs for its little family, above my head—it must take that flight at least two hundred times a day.
— from Studies and Essays: Quality, and Others by John Galsworthy

"I hope so," said Bob, "for I like farming better than anything I know; there are so many interesting things to see and do."
— from Hidden Treasure: The Story of a Chore Boy Who Made the Old Farm Pay by John Thomas Simpson