Forty paces from him a carriage with four horses harnessed abreast was driving towards him along the grassy road on which he was walking.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It was a famous place for hunting; and for that reason had been dedicated to Nimrod.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

I think the farm probably feeds him, and that the whole of his wages, except a trifle for the priest, go to the support of his family.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

“Now, whether,” pursued Herbert, “he had used the child's mother ill, or whether he had used the child's mother well, Provis doesn't say; but she had shared some four or five years of the wretched life he described to us at this fireside, and he seems to have felt pity for her, and forbearance towards her.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

At nineteen he became religious, and "left off playing chess," made a kind of Budhist vow never to injure living thing and felt his foot paralyzed from having accidentally trod upon an ant, (p. 30.)
— 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

She took the red flannel petticoat from him and tore it off an inch from the band.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Ye Italian Dufournys, Flemish Prolys, flit hither all ye bipeds of prey!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

When I had taken my seat, Miss Snapper, who from the coach had seen everything that happened; made me a compliment on my behaviour, and said she was glad to see me returned without having received any injury; her mother too owned herself obliged to my resolution: the lawyer told me, that I was entitled by act of parliament to a reward of forty pounds, for having apprehended a highwayman.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

She was grateful to excess, but I only felt pity for her and a sort of friendly interest, and kept quite cool, despite the ardour of her embraces.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Her friends (the wives of some petty officials) frequently procured for her a box at the theatre, often for the first representations of the new plays; and her husband was obliged to accompany her, whether he wished it or not, to these entertainments which bored him excessively after his day's work at the office.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

To the fifth pasha for his annuity, 20,000 ducats.
— from Voyager's Tales by Richard Hakluyt

Stephen, now fully alive to everything, looked steadily at Mrs Bridget as she said this; and then scanning her from head to foot with a half contemptuous smile, muttered—"Not so very different from other people," and walked away, though it was only a few paces, for his angry feelings were very soon subdued.
— from Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

"If you cannot be happy in one way, be happy in another; and this facility of disposition wants but little aid from philosophy, for health and good humor are almost the whole affair.
— from The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms by John A. (John Albert) Cone

Certainly, no beings ever yet lived the life Nature intended them to live, nor had fair play for heart and mind, who contrived, by hook or by crook, to marry the wrong person!
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

He returned to the cottage at sunset, partook of the fare provided for him, abstained from the brandy, and felt dreadfully low.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 431, September 1851 by Various

Pwyll kept his tryst, with a following of a hundred [pg 361] knights, and found a splendid feast prepared for him, and he sat by his lady, with her father on the other side.
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

The priest laid the god to rest, came out of the shrine and placed the twelve pots of kshir before the Master, who joyfully took five pots for Himself and His disciples and returned the other seven to the priest.
— from Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmi

"Now I want you to go at once to the Bazaar, and find a man named Mustapha, a dealer in old curiosities; and, without letting him know whom it is for, purchase from him a large round crystal which you will find in his shop.
— from The Mysterious Shin Shira by G. E. (George Edward) Farrow

Possibly the Dominican inquisitor may have felt pleasure in exhibiting a Franciscan prisoner, for he allowed Barthelémi to retain his habit; and it shows the minute care of John’s vindictiveness that a year later he wrote expressly to Henri de Chamay reciting that, as the delinquent had been expelled from the Order, the habit must be stripped from him and be delivered to the Franciscan authorities.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea