Yet as he pulled out against the gale he could see that even there had once been a seal nursery.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

What's Holden fussing about—that they don't give him caviare on toast?
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

Then, the next morning, I was so tired; and they wanted me to stay with them—I could tell that—and tried to frighten me from going into the deep woods, which, indeed, looked very strange and dark; but it seemed to me as if Death was following me to take my baby away from me; and as if I must go on, and on—and I thought how God had cared for mothers ever since the world was made, and would care for me; so I bade them good-bye, and set off afresh.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

He is as brave as a bull-dog, and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon any one.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

And you, gentlemen," he continued with old-fashioned sprightliness, "will you be so good as to step into the study of a retired veteran?"
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Verdurin; but his heart was frantically beating, he felt that he now hated Odette, he would gladly have crushed those eyes which, a moment ago, he had loved so dearly, have torn the blood into those lifeless cheeks.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Only a life secure in its aims, supported on a strong foundation, could force harmony from the conflicting inclinations he possessed; only a great humanity could compress such heterogeneous forces to one force.
— from Émile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig

It was his wont to say, with good-natured indulgence, that good hearts carve out their own salvation by deeds of loving kindness and charity.
— from A Love Episode by Émile Zola

Under the direction of this man, and of Giafferi, his colleague, a democratic constitution, in the highest degree prudent and [258] practical, was framed for the Corsican people; whilst the popular enthusiasm in the continued war found vent in standards representing the Holy Virgin and her Son, implying that, unassisted as they were, and unreached by human sympathy or compassion, they placed themselves beneath the guardianship of Heaven.
— from A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Gertrude Forde

Fragments of this translation, chiefly from the Gospels, have come down to the present time; and the Bible translation of the Arian Bishop Ulphilas, in the language of the Goths of Mœsia, during the reign of Valens, exhibits the earliest sample of any Gothic tongue.
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

George Harmon Coxe (A); 9Jan62; R289629.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1962 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Smilk: "I say, I've got him covered.
— from Yollop by George Barr McCutcheon

A simitar was thrust fiercely through the flaming girdle, and a gaudy hookah cuddled in the crook of her arm, while the bristling whiskers and encarmined cheeks and nose of the weather-beaten seafarer proclaimed a strong masculine personality in striking contrast to the pretty young men Turks and Persians that tittered in feminine fashion all about her.
— from Miss Pat at School by Pemberton Ginther