"Was it there like a cool grove, or like a holy temple?
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I started on her some months ago; and she's getting on like a house on fire.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Enter the GHOST of LADY ANNE, his wife GHOST.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The good old lady applied her utmost art to comfort her niece.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Her pronunciation made even Monsieur Dufarge smile in spite of himself, and Lavinia and Jessie and the more fortunate girls either giggled or looked at her in wondering disdain.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

For Thou art great, O Lord, and hast respect unto the humble, but the proud Thou beholdest afar off.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

—But your worships chuse rather that I give you the length, breadth, and perpendicular height of the great parish-church, or drawing of the facade of the abbey of Saint Austreberte which has been transported from Artois hither—every thing is just I suppose as the masons and carpenters left them,—and if the belief in Christ continues so long, will be so these fifty years to come—so your worships and reverences may all measure them at your leisures—but he who measures thee, Janatone, must do it now—thou carriest the principles of change within thy frame; and considering the chances of a transitory life, I would not answer for thee a moment; ere twice twelve months are passed and gone, thou mayest grow out like a pumpkin, and lose thy shapes—or thou mayest go off like a flower, and lose thy beauty—nay, thou mayest go off like a hussy—and lose thyself.—I would not answer for my aunt Dinah, was she alive—'faith, scarce for her picture—were it but painted by Reynolds—
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

104 A magnificent temple rose in honor of the god of light; and his colossal figure 105 almost filled the capacious sanctuary, which was enriched with gold and gems, and adorned by the skill of the Grecian artists.
— 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

His garb was grey of lavender, About his brows a poppy-wreath Burned like dim coals, and everywhere
— from Songs of Childhood by Walter De la Mare

He thought prudence the best guide of life, and his mind was not of an eccentric daring, to rush heedlessly beyond the bounds of discretion.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various

It likewise shows us in the far distant past the individual God of light as he slays the monster of the chaotic night—Siegfried’s struggle with the dragon.
— from Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians by Ludwig Nohl

In one church, in 1661, a fine of five shillings was imposed on any one "who shot off a gun or led a horse into the meeting-house."
— from Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle

“The great big giant only laughed; and he slipped the pumpkin into his pocket, where he rattled round no bigger than a hickory nut.”
— from The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House by Margaret Sidney

{184} The Major-General believes that the annals of warfare contain no brighter page than that which will record the bravery, fortitude, vigilance, and patient endurance of hardships, privation, and fatigue, displayed by the garrison of Lucknow; and he is very conscious that his unskilled pen must needs fail adequately to convey to the Right Honourable the Governor-General of India, and his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, the profound sense of the merits of that garrison which has been forced on his mind by a careful consideration of the almost incredible difficulties with which they have had to contend.
— from The Defence of Lucknow A Diary Recording the Daily Events during the Siege of the European Residency, from 31st May to 25th September, 1857 by T. F. (Thomas Fourness) Wilson

Sister Babette and her family were the first to arrive; and, shortly after their first greeting of Ludwig and his family, they inquired for Martella.
— from Waldfried: A Novel by Berthold Auerbach

Singlehanded and alone he had gone to and fro through that under world of the slave, preaching his gospel of liberty and hate.
— from Right on the Scaffold, or The Martyrs of 1822 The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 7 by Archibald Henry Grimké

No; he was a hog; he would go on like a hog; he would die a hog—a durned, low, dirty, contemptible hog!
— from Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne

†The god of love answerde hir thus anoon, †'Madame,' quod he, 'hit is so long agoon
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer