he scribbled some queer marks on the paper and gave it to her, and she was ever so thankful, and right away was in a fever for the sun to go down; for in that old, cruel time prisoners were not allowed to see their friends, and sometimes they spent years in the jails without ever seeing a friendly face.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

He was fortunate enough to find a boat on the beach, and got instantly to his ship.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

An hour or two before sundown they descried a village, to which they made up, and became guests in the house of one of its most respectable inhabitants.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

He is glad to see the promise of settled weather now, for getting in the hay, about which the farmers have been fearful; and there is something so healthful in the sharing of a joy that is general and not merely personal, that this thought about the hay-harvest reacts on his state of mind and makes his resolution seem an easier matter.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

But what is the second thing whereby you would prove a discovery of a work of grace in the heart? TALK.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

With creaking masts, she came heavily round to the wind; the prow slowly swinging into view of the boats, its skeleton gleaming in the horizontal moonlight, and casting a gigantic ribbed shadow upon the water.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

In a month? ASTROFF and SONIA go into the house.
— from Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He's been good enough to come all the way from Shaston at great inconvenience to himself."
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then rats, bread, and meat would go into the hoppers together.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

They have generally been considered greatly inferior to his other prose and poetical works; their modern editor is even of opinion that they were meant as parodies and satires on the vitiated taste of the time: but to find this hypothesis ridiculous, we have only to read them without any such prepossession.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

And so we allowed him to go into the house, to have that business interview with his niece.
— from White Wings: A Yachting Romance, Volume I by William Black

Thence to Povy's, and there delivered him his letters of greatest import to him that is possible, yet dropped by young Bland, just come from Tangier, upon the road by Sittingburne, taken up and sent to Mr. Pett, at Chatham.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 34: March/April 1664-65 by Samuel Pepys

THERE IS A GENTLEMAN IN THIS HOUSE."
— from John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character, Vol. 1 (of 3) From the Collection of "Mr. Punch" by John Leech

Monarchy was the first; because men selected for their government, out of their families, and afterwards even from among the whole people, some one who excelled the rest in goodness: his greatness increasing, they honored his hand with the sceptre, and encircled his head with a crown as an emblem of majesty, and as a badge of the supreme power which they had conferred upon him.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

The Gaelic movement has brought to the surface sentiments and thoughts which had been developed in Gaelic Ireland through hundreds of years, and which no repression had been able to obliterate altogether, but which still remained as a latent spiritual inheritance in the mind.
— from Ireland In The New Century by Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir

He has the good-nature of his race: had Smith asked him for the biscuit he would probably have given it to him; it was the insult—the immorality of the proceeding, that maddened The O’Shannon.
— from The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

She says she won't carry no parasol 's she can't shut down without riskin' her thumb 'n' she 's goin' to give it to her niece over to Meadville.
— from Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop by Anne Warner

When by herself, Mary Grafton, her head gently inclined toward her shoulder, with that indolent gracefulness of action which distinguishes young English girls, remained for a moment with her eyes fixed on Raoul, but as if uncertain what to do.
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas