But when they returned to their fishing, they forgot the bird until the next night.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Not, certainly, that of persons who saw me then for the first time, and who knew nothing about my character.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

The Passing of the Dwarfs The dwarfs were generally kind and helpful; sometimes they kneaded bread, ground flour, brewed beer, performed countless household tasks, and harvested and threshed the grain for the farmers.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

The amount of organic change, as Pictet has remarked, does not strictly correspond with the succession of our geological formations; so that between each two consecutive formations, the forms of life have seldom changed in exactly the same degree.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

He was the only being present who possessed sufficient candor to admit that he was not listening to these gracious performances for the first time that summer.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Most of us manage somehow to find time for the things we love.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The road topped a low hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to keep the flames under.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

They also resolved to kill the lad; and having fully ratified that intention of theirs, as soon as their collection of the fruits was over, they went to Shechem, which is a country good for feeding of cattle, and for pasturage; there they fed their flocks, without acquainting their father with their removal thither; whereupon he had melancholy suspicions about them, as being ignorant of his sons' condition, and receiving no messenger from the flocks that could inform him of the true state they were in; so, because he was in great fear about them, he sent Joseph to the flocks, to learn the circumstances his brethren were in, and to bring him word how they did.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Well, even in that case, all will be right: it is to be supposed he knew from the first he was mortal, and must one day go the way of all flesh, "As well soon as syne."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

It snatched many children from their families.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

This barbarity, committed in the name of the Mussulman religion, appears the more revolting, from the Franks never having given an example for it, and that amidst the furies of war, they were never known to require the conversion of infidels, sword in hand.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

"Why, what ails the land?" said Judith's father, turning from the small table in the summer-house, and lying back in his chair, and crossing one knee over the other, as if he would give a space to idleness.
— from Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black

We seem to see him in some still hour of reverie recalling early days;—happy scenes rise around him; lovely children gambol at his side; he hears again the merry laugh of little Tamar, and smiles as he recalls some childish saying of Absalom; he is beginning, as of old, to forecast the future and shape out for them careers of honour and happiness; when, horror of horrors!
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

A small flagstaff having also been erected to-day, a flag was displayed for the first time from the beacon, by which its perspective effect was greatly improved.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Gentle as a marriageable girl, Socquard, who was a stout, short man, with a placid face, broad shoulders, and a deep chest, where his lungs played like the bellows of a forge, possessed a flute-like voice, the limpid tones of which surprised all those who heard them for the first time.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The president of their church states it this way: "The individuals who kept this covenant (the new and everlasting covenant of the Gospel) were accepted of Him and were not rejected, nor their standing before God put in jeopardy by the departure of others from the faith.
— from Origin of the 'Reorganized' Church and the Question of Succession by Joseph Fielding Smith

For the first time the King looked around toward us, smiling.
— from In Search of Mademoiselle by George Gibbs

So his mother snatched the brand from the fire and kept it in a box.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

From the firmament of British literature and science a great light has departed.
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller