We crossed the Ganges just at dawn, made our connection, and went to Benares, where we stayed twenty-four hours and inspected that strange and fascinating piety-hive again; then left for Lucknow, a city which is perhaps the most conspicuous of the many monuments of British fortitude and valor that are scattered about the earth.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

[FIERS lays a cushion under her feet] Thank you, dear.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In spite of all her tender care, Her noble son, her face most fair, Another queen I could prefer And for thy sake neglected her, But now, O Queen, my heart is grieved For love and care by thee received, E'en as the sickening wretch repents
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Your last letter also caused my tears to flow from joy, as it convinced me more than ever of your fatherly love and care.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

And finally he had upset the whole household when he arrived an hour and a half late for luncheon and covered with mud from head to foot, and made not the least apology, saying merely: "I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or by the arbitrary divisions of what is known as Time.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

That feeling was an intimate, familiar feeling, like a consciousness of hypocrisy, which she experienced in her relations with her husband.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It fits like a circus tent, and a woman’s head is hidden away in it like the man’s who prompts the singers from his tin shed in the stage of an opera.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

A number of elegantly dressed gentlemen and ladies from foreign lands, and crowds of country people from the neighboring cantons, were assembled in the town.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I’m sure I shall always feel like a child in the woods.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Bobby could see her quite plainly in the fire light, and could catch the curious aromatic smell which rose up from the smouldering wood.
— from A Terrible Tomboy by Angela Brazil

Gulls flashed white wings against the autumn blue of the sky, and linnets twittered among the gorse bushes; here and there a few wild flowers lingered, and Claudia picked quite a summer-looking bouquet.
— from The Head Girl at the Gables by Angela Brazil

It was then suggested that they try General Arthur, who was Conkling's first lieutenant and chairman of the Republican State Committee of New York.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew

—Total, 11, distributed as follows: Los Angeles County: 8 mi. E and 4 mi. S Llano, 4000 ft., 6 (4 PC); Mescal Canyon, 4800 ft., 5.
— from Mammals of the San Gabriel Mountains of California by Terry A. Vaughan

Hawthorne, in "The Marble Faun," lost a certain completeness of effect by stepping off his own New England shadow.
— from Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

And as they overtook [48] them they collided with the enemy who were going more slowly with many women and children in their rear-guard, and the Spaniards, leaving these behind them in order to catch up with the men, ran more than four leagues, and caught up with some of their squadrons.
— from An Account of the Conquest of Peru by Pedro Sancho

They mimicked the fine gentleman and the gentildonna, and made fashionable love and carried on intrigues.
— from The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps

Working in the shanties, trapping, making a little money from time to time as a guide or in trade with the Indians, that is the life for me; but to scratch away at the same fields from one year's end to another, and stay there forever, I would not have been able to stick to that all my life; I would have felt like a cow tethered to a stake."
— from Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country by Louis Hémon

That was an hour full of a strange and marvellous happiness, when he felt like a child leaning against a father's knee.
— from Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset by Arthur Christopher Benson

The one looks like a veteran soldier, with his rock-like brow, his dark eyes, his vigorous form, and his firm step; the other, with his high, expanded forehead, his thin worn face, and his slight youthful frame, like a combination of a young student and an old philosopher.
— from Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles