“What's thee got thy Sunday cloose on for?” said Lisbeth complainingly, as he came downstairs.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

"The decrees of Heaven cannot be divulged; but as I have been very friendly with you, sister-in-law, for so long, I will present you, before I take my leave, with two lines, which it behoves you to keep in mind," rejoined Mrs. Ch'in, as she consequently proceeded to recite what follows: The three springs, when over, all radiance will wane; The inmates to seek each a home will be fain.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

When the day dawned, the whole forest scenery lay glittering in a mantle of dazzling white; the sun shone brightly, the heavens were intensely blue, but the cold was so severe that every article of food had to be thawed before we could get our breakfast.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

But I had little spare cash for such luxuries, and all my money went in necessaries.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

He put out his feet from the log and felt something licking them.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

And so it is with time: the little affairs and misfortunes of everyday life excite in us emotion, anxiety, vexation, passion, for so long as they are quite near us, they appear big, important, and considerable; but as soon as the inexhaustible stream of time has carried them into the distance they become unimportant; they are not worth remembering and are soon forgotten, because their importance merely consisted in being near.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

I only had a few seconds look at the man.
— from Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

"By God's sufferance," rejoined the Doctor, "her Majesty is not without means to defend her crown, that hath descended to her from so long a succession of ancestors.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

For, while she was behind me in the morning-room, fingering some letters on the table, I stood six feet away beside the open window, listening to the nightingales—the English nightingales—that sang across the quiet garden in the dusk.
— from The Garden of Survival by Algernon Blackwood

[602] Thus the idea that the wind is the universal mediator is old and it does not seem that Madhva regarded Vâyu as a redeemer or expiation for sin like Christ.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Parson , looking away, and after a pause.—"You never hear anything of the old folks at Lansmere?" "'Deed, sir, sin' poor Mark died, they han't noticed me, nor the boy; but," added the widow, with all a peasant's pride, "it isn't that I wants their money; only it's hard to feel strange like to one's own father and mother!"
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

I hope it is no sin in this country to come from Saxony! LAND.
— from Minna Von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The colonization of Córdoba began simultaneously in the east, toward Santa Fé, and in the south-west, in the Rio Cuarto department, to which the breeders from San Luis went.
— from The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress by Pierre Denis

The suites of high, spacious rooms; the carefully carved wood-work of the window-casings and the doors; the tall, [213] quaint mantel-frames; the deep fireplaces with their shining fire-dogs and fenders of brass, brought laboriously enough on pack-mules from Philadelphia; the brass locks and keys; the portraits on the walls—all these bespeak the early implantation in Kentucky of a taste for sumptuous life and entertainment.
— from The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky, and Other Kentucky Articles by James Lane Allen

"As a matter of fact," said Lettice, "we are lunching with Harry Vibart and Claude Whittaker.
— from Rich Relatives by Compton MacKenzie