Giving false answers, she made her panting wooer confident that he would gain his desires; but ordered that a bear and a dog should be set at the porch of her dwelling, thinking to guard her own room against all the ardour of a lover by means of the beasts that blocked the way.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

But this bright-eyed falcon of a girl had openly refused to endure such official delay.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Many curious and interesting facts are buried in oblivion: the three great historians of Rome have been transmitted to our hands in a mutilated state, and we are deprived of many pleasing compositions of the lyric, iambic, and dramatic poetry of the Greeks.
— 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

Books of practice, heaps of papers, and opened letters, were scattered over the table, without any attempt at order or arrangement; the furniture of the room was old and rickety; the doors of the book-case were rotting in their hinges; the dust flew out from the carpet in little clouds at every step; the blinds were yellow with age and dirt; the state of everything in the room showed, with a clearness not to be mistaken, that Mr. Serjeant Snubbin was far too much occupied with his professional pursuits to take any great heed or regard of his personal comforts.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

That at such a time, when all the other holy things perished, this should have been preserved, gave them good hopes of Rome, which that omen seemed to presage would be eternal.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Erling A man who would grace His own royal race.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

“Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it difficult to get hold of,” replied Lestrade with some warmth.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

on his goods, he often realised more than a hundred per cent.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

In the meanwhile, B—— was sure to be drawn gradually into conversation by some emigrants, who, seeing that he was a practical farmer, would be desirous of getting his opinion respecting certain farms which they thought of purchasing.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

4 As similar fossil remains occur in all parts of Asia hitherto explored, far in the interior of the continent as well as near the sea, they could hardly have escaped detection by some Eastern sages not less capable than the Greek historian of reasoning philosophically on natural phenomena.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Pot culture in the usual manner would require greater height of roof.
— from Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by F. W. (Francis W.) Woodward

I do not think they were always bright and joyous, and I am sure I often chafed under the burdens imposed upon me; but how inviting they seem when viewed through the golden haze of retrospection.
— from Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian by Canniff Haight

Not knowing whether to be pleased or angry, Dan gave his own reluctantly.
— from The Gates of Dawn by Fergus Hume

The other two short holes, the fifth and the tenth, are never very short, and, when the wind blows strong in our faces, too long for us to entertain any great hopes of reaching the green.
— from The Golf Courses of the British Isles by Bernard Darwin

In our travels through Bohemia it has been our good fortune to gather hundreds of recipes of new, strange and rare dishes, prepared by those who look farther than the stoking of the physical system in the preparation of foods.
— from Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. by Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) Edwords

Now it is known from the general history of rivers that only a short part of their long lives is spent in cutting their channels down to base level, except in the case of headwater streams, which retain youthful characteristics even through the maturity of their main river.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 1, October, 1888 by Various

Hands up, gents," he ordered, raising the pistols significantly.
— from The Round-Up: A Romance of Arizona; Novelized from Edmund Day's Melodrama by Marion Mills Miller

He knew that maps and valuable papers were kept there, because the general had once referred to them as being there while at supper.
— from The Boy Allies on the Firing Line; Or, Twelve Days Battle Along the Marne by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

After presenting a few examples of various spontaneous and non-medical recoveries, we bring into contrast the types of medical recovery that may be termed rapid (or miracle) cures and those that fall under the general head of reëducation.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard