She weaves a pretty dream, I know, All in the garden shady, How dolly was, long, long ago, A little fairy lady, And held her court on a green, green knoll,
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

A buzz sounded in his ears, he felt the crack of a whip around his chest, the red mist reappeared before his eyes, he again saw the corpses of his wife and daughter, and beside them the usurper with the friar laughing and holding his sides.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Then he told him how near he came to dying, almost in sight of free land, and how he prayed that he might live to get one breath of free air.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

" She put a hand out delicately, speaking in a coaxing voice—as she spoke to the sparrows and to Melchisedec—as if she were some friendly little animal herself.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Lamb and his friends laughed at him and loved him.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

With $11.75 rent to pay for like accommodation, he has the advantage of his oldest boy’s work besides his wife’s at the bench.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Many of them now recognized her as the woman who had assaulted the governor with frightful language as he passed by the window of her prison; they knew, also, that she was adjudged to suffer death, and had been preserved only by an involuntary banishment into the wilderness.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I T is two hours, and ten minutes—and no more—cried my father, looking at his watch, since Dr. Slop and Obadiah arrived—and I know not how it happens, Brother Toby —but to my imagination it seems almost an age.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

And Florian, looking at her, didn't care.
— from Gigolo by Edna Ferber

A start is made at an open ditch or hole of required depth; when the carrier is drawn in full length a hole is dug just back of the coulter, two by three feet, down to the tile, a stop placed in front of the tile, the machine is started which draws the carrier from under the tile, when it is again located as before, and so on.
— from Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

You folks, look after her, please!
— from Plays by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

The colour now lay in patches on her cheek, and she watched with growing feverishness the burning of the few letters, from each of which, as she put it in the bright crackling fire, Lucy averted her eyes, a fact which Mrs. Rebell, in spite of her increasing dizziness and pain, saw and was grateful for.
— from Barbara Rebell by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Everything in the man had seemed to persuade me of this, and I had even flattered myself on my miserable superiority to him, that I was the true faithful lover and he the vulgar sensualist.
— from The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole

It is nothing to tell the people who have {14} made this wonderful discovery that Mary Fitton was not a “dark lady,” but a fair lady, as her portraits at Arbury show.
— from Baconian Essays by Smithson, E. W. (Edward Walter), active 19th century

The Lord heard us, and I felt light and happy, and I went to church again, and sung with the rest.
— from Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

She seemed to be mine as I lifted her over the fallen logs, and helped her past the rocks and obstacles.
— from The Spanish Galleon Being an account of a search for sunken treasure in the Caribbean Sea. by Charles Sumner Seeley

Photography, first suggestions, 203 ; discoveries and improvements in, 204-207 ; conditions affecting the chemical properties of rays producing, 207 , 208 ; images of the solar spectrum obtained by, 208-210 ; coloured copy of an engraving, 211 ; phenomena in, suggesting an absorptive action in the solar atmosphere, 212 , 213 ; chemical energy producing, distinct from light and heat, 214 ; experiments by means of, testing the properties of rays, 218 , 219 ; experiments on action of light, heat, electricity, producing results analogous to effects of, 219-223 .
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville