And he led Yegorushka to a big two-storied building, dark and gloomy like the almshouse at N. After going across the entry, up a dark staircase and through a narrow corridor, Yegorushka and Deniska reached a little room in which Ivan Ivanitch and Father Christopher were sitting at the tea-table.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Having daily repeated the Ádityahridaya (the delighter of the mind of the Sun) the holy prayer which destroys all enemies (of him who repeats it) gives victory, removes all sins, sorrows and distress, increases life, and which is the blessing of all blessings, worship the rising and splendid sun who is respected by both the Gods and demons, who gives light to all bodies and who is the rich lord of all the worlds, (To the question why this prayer claims so great reverence; the sage answers)
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Good luck, the advice about sleeping with your head significantly elevated is the best I have ever given out to fellow sinus problem sufferers.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

And no doubt other cases of a similar nature would occur, generally leading to an unfavourable report at Rome.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

“The Pincio is only a hundred yards distant; and if Mr. Winterbourne were as polite as he pretends, he would offer to walk with me!” Winterbourne’s politeness hastened to affirm itself, and the young girl gave him gracious leave to accompany her.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

[370] Street Coffee Service in Constantinople The Cafés of the kind represented in the plate are, perhaps, the greatest luxury that a stranger finds in Damascus.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I likewise admired the start given to the orchestra by the baton of the leader, but he disgusted me with the movements of his sceptre right and left, as if he thought that he could give life to all the instruments by the mere motion of his arm.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The queens take a greater liberty than any of the rest; for they move backwards and forwards all manner of ways, in a straight line as far as they please, provided the place be not filled with one of her own party, and diagonally also, keeping to the colour on which she stands.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

About a week later in the shallow lagoon of one of the great lakes that are known to exist in that part, although no white man has yet penetrated to them, he saw a long neck raise itself out of the water—a long neck!
— from Across the Andes A Tale of Wandering Days Among the Mountains of Bolivia and the Jungles of the Upper Amazon by Charles Johnson Post

Galahad swore too, and good Sir Bors, and Lancelot and many others, knights, and Gawain louder than all the rest.
— from Tales from Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

there was a noble peer, by name Geofry Lord Trevor, and also John Trevor, Bishop of St. Asaph, and Chancellor of Chester.
— from Some Account of Llangollen and Its Vicinity Including a Circuit of About Seven Miles by W. T. (Wilfrid Tord) Simpson

If, however, I had not by good luck thrown away the beetroots, which are hard, my skull would certainly have been cracked."
— from Miscellanea by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

It was the first squall, or prologue, of the coming tempest, and as we started and looked about us, we found that a gloom, like the approach of evening, had settled round the house.
— from The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson

[155] ROBERT GRANT R obert Grant leads the American satirists.
— from Famous Authors (Men) by E. F. (Edward Francis) Harkins

Of the men about town who give life to a supper, only Rastignac and Lucien were present.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

In practice, however, they glowed like the altars of Vesta all night long, for every boy made it his business to convey a regular contribution of coal to his dormitory.
— from Pip : A Romance of Youth by Ian Hay

He was larger than Loupe, and had not Loupe's peculiar symmetry of mane and tail: he was a fat dumpy little fellow, sleek and short, dapple grey, with a good long tail and a mild eye.
— from Daisy by Susan Warner