Alongside stretched the verandah running round the four sides of the open inner quadrangle, on which had fallen the faint afternoon glow of the clouded sky, and finding me 8 weeping over one of its sorrowful situations my great-aunt came and took away the book from me.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

But our patron, warned by this disaster, resolved to take more care of himself for the future; and having lying by him the longboat of our English ship that he had taken, he resolved he would not go a-fishing any more without a compass and some provision; so he ordered the carpenter of his ship, who also was an English slave, to build a little state-room, or cabin, in the middle of the long-boat, like that of a barge, with a place to stand behind it to steer, and haul home the main-sheet; the room before for a hand or two to stand and work the sails.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Misfortunes come and burn like flame, Then fly as quickly as they came.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

“I have no doubt you would, but they have some things to get from the felucca as well.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I was now for the first time frightened, and I yelled with all my might and main.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

I only knew that I had seen perfection face to face, and that the world had become wonderful to my eyes—too wonderful, perhaps, for in such mad worships there is peril, the peril of losing them, no less than the peril of keeping them....
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

But the coward, who was going to die crying and yelling (the exciseman, Morris, thrown into the lake, Rob Roy )—suppose him also saved by chance—can at most recall that instant with pleasure because he was saved , not for the treasures of magnanimity that he discovered with him, and that take away for the future all his fears."
— from On Love by Stendhal

The other seven have wore out all she made for the first, and she's never had time or strength or spirit to make any more.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

She put them into the tiny shoes, took them out, admired them, marvelled at them, looked at the light through them, was curious to see them try to walk on her bed, and would gladly have passed her life on her knees, putting on and taking off the shoes from those feet, as though they had been those of an Infant Jesus.”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

He was not given to forecasting the future, and it had seemed to him that life at Wimperfield was to go on for ever in the same groove—immutable as the course of the planets; that he was always to have a luxurious home there—a fine stable—an indulgent father-in-law.
— from The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

It will enable any competent reader to assure himself that the new general doctrine aims at something more than satisfying the Intellect; that it is in reality quite as favourable to Feeling and even to Imagination.
— from A General View of Positivism Or, Summary exposition of the System of Thought and Life by Auguste Comte

" Frank heartily returned his cordial greeting, and the two friends talked for a long time of scenes through which they had passed together—subjects still fresh in their memories—until the entrance of an officer put a stop to the conversation.
— from Frank on the Lower Mississippi by Harry Castlemon

The frightened birds, that fled inland To house in rock and tower and tree, Are gathering on the peaceful strand, To tempt again the sunny sea; Whereon the timid ships steal out And laugh to find their foe asleep, That lately scattered them about, And drave them to the fold like sheep.
— from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 2 by Robert Bridges

With the aid of wooden or bone tools, they finished their flint artifacts by pressure, gave them excellent edges and points, and shaped them with artistic skill.
— from Ancient Man in Britain by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

He did what all the world was doing in borrowing from the French, and in the Virgin's Lament he has the candour to confess the northern supremacy.
— from A History of Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

The body of the Minnow is of a blackish green, with blue and yellow variegations; the abdomen silvery; scales small; ten rays in the ventral, anal, and dorsal fins; tail forked, and marked near the base with a dusky spot.
— from Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals. by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

The villagers were very angry with them for the failure and the headman told them that they must ascertain by means of the oiled leaf who had caused the illness, [ 434 ] or it would be the worse for them.
— from Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas

Though his exceptional abilities were universally recognised, from the very beginning of his career as a member of our High Court Bar, he could not secure adequate scope for them for a good many years; pecuniary struggles forced him to abandon the chances of a successful practice in the High Court for the mufassal practice which is more profitable to a junior Barrister.
— from India for Indians Enlarged Edition by Chitta Ranjan Das