She walked with quick steps, out of breath, gasping every time she plunged her foot into the snow.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Then Monsieur le Curé offers you a pinch of snuff——or a poor soldier shews you his leg——or a shaveling his box——or the priestesse of the cistern will water your wheels——they do not want it——but she swears by her priesthood (throwing it back) that they do:——then you have all these points to argue, or consider over in your mind; in doing of which, the rational powers get so thoroughly awak- 278 ened——you may get ’em to sleep again as you can.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The window panes were of green glass; even the sky above the City had a green tint, and the rays of the sun were green.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

King Harald lived three years after he gave Eirik the supreme authority over his kingdom, and lived mostly on his great farms which he possessed, some in Rogaland, and some in Hordaland.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The mysterious fire played up and down her dark and rolling locks, twining and twisting itself through and around them like threads of golden lace; it gleamed upon her ivory breast and shoulder, from which the hair had slipped aside; it slid along her pillared throat and delicate features, and seemed to find a home in the glorious eyes that shone and shone, more brightly even than the spiritual essence.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

In great emergencies the sins of the Rajah of Manipur used to be transferred to somebody else, usually to a criminal, who earned his pardon by his vicarious sufferings.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

One longs to penetrate into the lives of the men who have given expression to so much power and sweetness; but it is part of the reserve, the austere dignity and simplicity of their existence, that their histories are for the most part lost, or told but briefly.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

Her face was hidden by a veil, but he drank in with glad eyes the special movement in walking, peculiar to her alone, the slope of the shoulders, and the setting of the head, and at once a sort of electric shock ran all over him.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

To measure the space between two distant objects, D and E. Line A B on one, then move this right-angled triangle until F G is lined on the other, with B G in line with G H. B G equals the space between D and E then.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabe his wife, the good earl thus speaks from the tomb:— "What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost."
— 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

He did shoot an elk, but where has the blooming thing gone?" exclaimed the scoffer.
— from The Outdoor Chums After Big Game; Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness by Quincy Allen

All the girls expected to see Hippy's revolver out of its holster after that insult.
— from Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert by Josephine Chase

HORACE [trembling, but speaking even more haughtily] Will you be good enough to state any possible reason why Miss Granger-Simpson should see you?
— from The Man from Home by Harry Leon Wilson

"Brer Rabbit, he tuck'n change his terbacker fum one side he mouf ter de yuther, he did, en he up'n 'low:— "'Mr. Lion, I wish you be so good ez ter show me how you sno' des' fo' you git soun' asleep.'
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

The Blackfeet lived too far to the eastward to take any part in the salmon fishing which gave employment to so many of their race on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.
— from Deerfoot in The Mountains by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Perhaps I am not good enough to see him.
— from Girls New and Old by L. T. Meade

I infer from your letter that you do not think The Two Realities good enough to send to Caine: and though of course sorry, I acquiesce in your judgment.
— from William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by His Wife Elizabeth A. Sharp by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Amelia) Sharp

"Be good enough to see if my coach is there."
— from Sophia: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

Or, the current produced by that light and that produced by the standard candle may be compared, according to any of the known ways of arranging and comparing different lights—the cell being lastly exposed alternately to the two lights, to see if the index gives exactly the same deflection with each light.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various