Descending to the gorgeous gardens, I noticed, near-by, the same caves and barren mountain ledges which yesterday had boasted no adjacency to palace or flowered terrace.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

By your prescription; but this top-proud fellow- Whom from the flow of gan I name not, but From sincere motions, by intelligence, And proofs as clear as founts in July when We see each grain of gravel-I do know To be corrupt and treasonous.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

While Ada was speaking to him in reply, I glanced (I need not say with how much interest) at his face.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

As to Gania, I need not say that he was miserable; he stood dumb and wretched and took no notice of anybody.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo; she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it would twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing: and when she had got its head down, and was going to [104] begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself and was in the act of crawling away: besides all this, there was generally a ridge or a furrow in the way wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up and walking off to other parts of the ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head, it would twist itself round and look up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing: and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up and walking off to other parts of the ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

She could do good, if not noble, work as a teacher; and the success her little sketches were beginning to meet with in certain editorial sanctums augured well for her budding literary dreams.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

It was my fortune to encounter him near St. Dunstan's Church (which, with its punctual giants, is now no more than dust and a shadow), on the morning of his election to that high office.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

So far the government is NATIONAL, not FEDERAL.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The girl (I need not say) did not put it thus, yet this in effect was her report.
— from Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

As far as scanning goes the {Greek} is not necessary; {Greek} iv.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

I won’t give it no name till he comes back.”
— from Daddy's Girl by L. T. Meade

The connection between a fish god and a corn god is not necessarily remote when we consider that in Babylonia and Egypt the harvest was the gift of the rivers.
— from Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

or else it will go in nonsensical notions and crotchets.
— from Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

You want me to leave politics, but I guess I need not take much pains to attain that object, for politics seem disposed to leave me.
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

Persecution therefore, or the appearance of the giants against the servants of God, is no new business; not a thing of yesterday, but of old, even when Noah did minister for God in the world.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Even if Durham contributed more to his Report than seems probable, the view there propounded of the scope of Responsible Government is not nearly so cogent as that of the later pamphlet.
— from British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison