When she kissed her grandmother there was gold everywhere: the gold of the heart in that holy kiss; it was a golden morning; there was gold in the beaming sunlight, gold in the leaves of the lowly flower, and on the lips of the maiden.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

We do not believe that its owner has had it torn down, for such labors are generally entrusted to God or nature—which Powers hold the contracts also for many of the projects of our government.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

We were glad enough to get on deck, and still more, to go below.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Dona præsentis cape lætus horæ, et / Linque severa —Gladly enjoy the gifts of the present hour, and banish serious thoughts.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I was glad enough to get out of prison; but I had no faith in the story that this friend of Capt. Auld would emancipate me, at the end of the time indicated.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The village clock struck five as Mr. Millbank and his guests entered the gardens of the mansion.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Gargoyles extended their grin over the finest architecture, cornices coiled to serpents, the very words of speakers started out of their conventional sense into images that tripped my attention.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

[771] Guido, etc. : The Guidi of Romena were a branch of the great family of the Counts Guidi.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The forces of the Sicilian admiral were inadequate to the siege or assault of an immense and populous metropolis; but George enjoyed the glory of humbling the Greek arrogance, and of marking the path of conquest to the navies of the West.
— 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

Gangler, seeing a multitude of things, the meaning of which he could not comprehend, softly pronounced the following verse (from the Havamal, st. i.):— "Scan every gate Ere thou go on, With greatest caution; For hard to say 'tis Where foes are sitting
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

But do not let us forget that the good news of forgiveness, though we need it day by day, and need it perpetually repeated, is but the introduction to and porch of the Temple, and that beyond it there towers, if I cannot say a loftier, yet I may say a further gift, even the gift of a divine life like His, from whom it comes, and of which it is in reality an effluence and a spark.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

As the Servants’ Hour was approaching at Bailey’s Beach, and as I had no good explanation to give of it to Okura, I thought we might walk along by the ocean before lunch.
— from The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett

Be good enough to go on with your instructions."
— from Stronghand; or, The Noble Revenge by Gustave Aimard

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— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

That the discovery, as far as it goes, establishes the guilt of the said Warren Hastings in taking money against law, but does not warrant a conclusion that he has discovered all that he may have taken; that, on the contrary, such discovery, not being made in proper time, and when made being imperfect, perplexed, and wholly unsatisfactory, leads to a just and reasonable presumption that other facts of the same nature have been concealed, since those which he has confessed might have been forever, and that this partial confession was either extorted from the said Warren Hastings by the dread of detection, or made with a view of removing suspicion, and preventing any further inquiry into his conduct.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

"I dare not attempt a description of that splendid day, when majesty with all its attendant glory entered the gates of the golden city, and amid the acclamations of millions, I may say, took possession
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

“If I get some hens for you,” said he, “it will be several weeks before they lay eggs enough to hatch; and then the chickens would not have 101 grown enough to get out of the way of the cold of the winter.
— from Cousin Lucy's Conversations By the Author of the Rollo Books by Jacob Abbott

The street grew empty, the glare of the illuminations was quenched.
— from Sophy of Kravonia: A Novel by Anthony Hope

"To save an invalid trouble, Inspector, Mr. Culverton Smith was good enough to give our signal by turning up the gas.
— from The Adventure of the Dying Detective by Arthur Conan Doyle