There was a whiz as of a missile in the air, mingled with the murmur of a curse, a sound as of shivering glass followed, and a small, vague form went over the fence and shot away in the gloom.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

But I am going far away, and shall never come back....
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

‘Excuse me,’ I responded; ‘you, my good friend, are a striking evidence against that assertion.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

But I have good fists and a solid back.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

If this principle be a just one our attention would be directed to a provision in favor of the State governments for an annual sum of about two hundred thousand pounds; while the exigencies of the Union could be susceptible of no limits, even in imagination.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Kate went first, leaning upon her brother’s arm, and talking with him and Mr. Frank Cheeryble; and Mrs Nickleby and the elder gentleman followed at a short distance, the kindness of the good merchant, his interest in the welfare of Nicholas, and his admiration of Kate, so operating upon the good lady’s feelings, that the usual current of her speech was confined within very narrow and circumscribed limits.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Near one hundred and eight years after the foundation of Gela, the Geloans founded Acragas (Agrigentum), so called from the river of that name, and made Aristonous and Pystilus their founders; giving their own institutions to the colony.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

said the Husband; 'Do not be out of humour with the Gentleman for asking a simple question.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

But there is no very good ground for supposing that a simple law is more likely to be true than a complicated law, though there is good ground for assuming a simple law in scientific practice, as a working hypothesis, if it explains the facts as well as another which is less simple.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

If it's fine, I'm going to pitch my tent in Longmeadow, and row up the whole crew to lunch and croquet—have a fire, make messes, gypsy fashion, and all sorts of larks.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

I wrote the yarn up in my junior year for an English comp., and tacked on the ghost feature as a sort of added climax.
— from The Turner Twins by Ralph Henry Barbour

Without another word she was gone, flitting away, a small, dark shadow, to mingle with the shadows of the night.
— from Guy Kenmore's Wife, and The Rose and the Lily by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

"I am obliged to your Grace," Fenwick answered, and stood waiting.
— from Shrewsbury: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

The extent of an agent's capacity for inference, its power to use a given fact as a sign of something not yet given, measures the extent of its ability systematically to enlarge its control of the future.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

There was a good fire, and a shaded lamp stood on a large table, where a girl sat writing.
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

K͟hān ʿĀlam was also honoured with a gracious farman and a special dress of honour.
— from The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 2 of 2) by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir

They show, I am sure, what the general trend of sentiment was in Germany for and against submarine warfare and disclose, too,
— from Face to Face with Kaiserism by James W. (James Watson) Gerard

The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.
— from The World English Bible (WEB): Luke by Anonymous

Of the A flat Study Chopin said: "Imagine a little shepherd who takes refuge in a peaceful grotto from an approaching storm.
— from Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker

So he took it for granted that "square meals" were for some reason preferable to meals of any other geometrical form, and answered simply that he would look up Mrs. Deming's house after business hours should be over.
— from A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs by George Cary Eggleston