The careful Professor had replaced it where it had come from, lest on waking she should be alarmed.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Declare for love, or war, she said; and frown’d: No love I’ll grant: to arms bid trumpets sound.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

At its base was perhaps half an acre of flat land, on which stood a few soil and timber huts.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

When She Cam' Ben She Bobbed O when she cam' ben she bobbed fu' law, O when she cam' ben she bobbed fu' law,
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

A man whose services to France have been of the very slightest is a fetich looked on with superstitious awe because he has always seen everything in red; but he is good, at the most, to be put into the Museum of Arts and Crafts, among the automatic machines, and labeled La Fayette; while the prince at whom everybody flings a stone, the man who despises humanity so much that he spits as many oaths as he is asked for in the face of humanity, saved France from being torn in pieces at the Congress of Vienna; and they who should have given him laurels fling mud at him.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

In Scotland, until very recently, the actual workmanship of the emblazonments which were issued from Lyon Office was so wretchedly poor that one is hardly justified in taking them into consideration as a type.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I shall be enabled, however, to confirm and strengthen it, by a fresh list of words, selected from a large vocabulary in my possession; and by placing, in the opposite column, the corresponding words as used at Otaheite, the curious reader will, at one view, be furnished with sufficient materials for judging by what subordinate changes the difference of dialect has been effected.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr

When Tiata had been laid gently within it, there was erected above it a snow-white cross, the symbol of the Toltec faith, for love of which she died.
— from The White Conquerors: A Tale of Toltec and Aztec by Kirk Munroe

With a great air of mystery he begged permission to speak to the fair Lucia, of whose skill in needlework he had heard so much, as he had a commission to give her.
— from The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Influenced by these grave considerations, our young leader subscribed to newspapers, bought books and read some of them, though he soon forgot precisely which he had read and which not; wrote a memorial on river navigation, and another upon the Renta del Excusado ; [56] made short speeches as a preparation for longer ones, which succeeded very well and met with the entire approbation of his hearers; and, in the time it takes to say a devout amen , exchanged the rakish air of the young blood for the pompous tone of the prominent and influential citizen.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Reconnaissance had developed the fact that the enemy occupied the village of El Caney, and that their first line of works surrounded the city of Santiago at a distance of about a mile, crowning a semicircular ridge.
— from History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition by John H. (John Henry) Parker

"She's very clever with him," Miss Averill explained, as she led the way to a fallen log, on which she seated herself, indicating that I might sit beside her.
— from The Thread of Flame by Basil King

Time and acts would tell—time and acts and this high-priest of hers, for love of whom she had lit into a devotional taper.
— from Lonesome Town by E. S. (Ethel Smith) Dorrance

" "That might do," Ernest agreed; "but you mustn't make the pole more than six or seven feet long, or we shall have difficulty in riding between the trees.
— from In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

For she was in such mourning for Lancelot, of whom she had no news, that she had lost all her colour.
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

The first large one, which seemed to have been some kind of a store, and a barn westward from it was pointed out to me as another hospital.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton