Yes, I am guilty of those faults, and punished for them every day.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The glow of the fire streamed upon her dark, floating locks, danced in the black, glistening eye, and gave a deeper blush to the olive cheek!
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

It was impossible for a girl of the fond age of eighteen, highly predisposed for love and matrimony, not to be pleased with so gallant a cavalier.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

I was borne violently into the channel of the Str�m, and in a few minutes was hurried down the coast into the ‘grounds’ of the fishermen.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Then we must not listen to Homer or to any other poet who is guilty of the folly of saying that two casks 'Lie at the threshold of Zeus, full of lots, one of good, the other of evil lots,' and that he to whom Zeus gives a mixture of the two 'Sometimes meets with evil fortune, at other times with good;' but that he to whom is given the cup of unmingled ill, 'Him wild hunger drives o'er the beauteous earth.'
— from The Republic by Plato

When I got over the first crash of being seized as a murderer—it don't take a rover who has knocked about so much as myself so very long to recover from a crash—I worked my way round to what you find me now.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

As for the rings which his father would have him to wear, to renew the ancient mark of nobility, he had on the forefinger of his left hand a carbuncle as big as an ostrich’s egg, enchased very daintily in gold of the fineness of a Turkey seraph.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

No, excuse me, but I consider myself aristocratic, and people like me, who can point back in the past to three or four honorable generations of their family, of the highest degree of breeding (talent and intellect, of course that’s another matter), and have never curried favor with anyone, never depended on anyone for anything, like my father and my grandfather.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"A very good one, too, from a swindler's standpoint.
— from Dick Hamilton's Fortune; Or, The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son by Howard Roger Garis

the little greyhounds to run the gauntlet of the fleet, whose concentrated fire at close range sometimes drove them among the breakers, where many wrecks may still be seen after all these years.
— from Derelicts: An Account of Ships Lost at Sea in General Commercial Traffic And a Brief History of Blockade Runners Stranded Along the North Carolina Coast, 1861-1865 by James Sprunt

I thought you had gone on to fetch Madelaine.”
— from The Haute Noblesse: A Novel by George Manville Fenn

"At the southern gate of the fort, each gun to fire as it comes to bear up the street from the water-side."
— from Pan-Islam by G. Wyman (George Wyman) Bury

Cayrol might have gone on talking for an hour, but Jeanne was not listening.
— from Serge Panine — Complete by Georges Ohnet

The tender green of the fields, the freshness of the atmosphere, the indescribable odor of spring that embalmed the gale, awakened softer, happier thoughts.
— from Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz

But this great captain also was beaten by Gustavus on the field of Lutzen, where the career of the Swedish hero came to an untimely end.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian by Charles Morris

In the small grate a fire blazed cheerfully; the firelight gleamed on the fine mahogany and ivory inlay of the Sheraton desk.
— from Old Valentines A Love Story by Munson Aldrich Havens

She completely lost all self control, and a gush of tears fell from her eyes.
— from East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.