A worse thing yet remains, This day the Philistines a popular Feast Here celebrate in Gaza, and proclaim Great Pomp, and Sacrifice, and Praises loud To Dagon, as their God who hath deliver'd Thee Samson bound and blind into thir hands, Them out of thine, who slew'st them many a slain.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Up, and after doing something in order to the putting of my house in order now the joynery is done, I went by water to White Hall, where the Court full of waggons and horses, the King and Court going this day out towards the Bath, and I to St. James’s, where I spent an hour or more talking of many things to my great content with Mr. Coventry in his chamber, he being ready to set forth too with the Duke to-day, and so left him, and I meeting Mr. Gauden, with him to our offices and in Sir W. Pen’s chamber did discourse by a meeting on purpose with Mr. Waith about the victualling business and came to some issue in it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Gotar, when he saw her, could scarcely believe his eyes, and in the utmost doubt whether he had recognized her aright, he retraced his steps to Erik; and there he saw before him Gunwar, who had got back in her own fashion.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

,” said Edmond, smiling, “these are the treasures the cardinal has left; and the good abbé, seeing in a dream these glittering walls, has indulged in fallacious hopes.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And he wondered what Father Arnall and Paddy Barrett would have become and what Mr McGlade and Mr Gleeson would have become if they had not become jesuits.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

For the poor doomed girl, knowing what she had to expect at the hands of her terrible Queen, knowing, too, from bitter experience, how great was her adversary’s power, yet gathered herself together, and out of the very depths of her despair drew materials to defy her.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

And glad was he if any wight wel ferde, That lover was, whan he it wiste or herde.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Where did the charitable gentleman who had a first-class ticket for this seaside resort find you?
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

Sometimes a fever gathered within him and led him to rove alone in the evening along the quiet avenue.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

"It's Mr. Marvell," she announced; and Ralph Marvell, glowing with haste and happiness, stood between the two men, holding out his hand to Mr. Spragg.
— from The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

For a few minutes, the enemy fired away unanswered, and then Dick, who had been seated on the ground with his back against the end wall, got up and went along that facing the street, carefully examining it.
— from The Tiger of Mysore: A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

One young fellow, a tremendous dandy, galloped up and down on a gray Arab-looking pony that an English gentleman would have put his little boy of twelve upon.
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

He had an order for Vauxhall, admitting two, from Mr. Hodgen, then within the Gardens, and singing (as he did at the Back Kitchen and the nobility's concerts, the 'Body Snatcher,' the 'Death of General Wolfe,' the 'Banner of Blood,' and other favourite melodies); and, having this order for the admission of two persons, he thought that it would admit three, and had come accordingly to the Gardens with his friends.
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

On one side of it the church thrusts a golden weathercock high into the blue sky, and with his proud and jolly head uplifted towards the north the bird flames and exults; on the other side, tall beeches give out the sleepy noise of rooks.
— from The Heart of England by Edward Thomas

He had scarcely gone when the spurious Gladwin turned again to the girl with his most engaging smile and softest tones: “You see, dear,” with a sweeping gesture that included his work of spoilation, “I am taking your advice––packing only the most valuable ones.”
— from Officer 666 by Barton Wood Currie

"Where have I heard of another girl with hazel eyes?
— from The Substitute Millionaire by Hulbert Footner

Cain won no "glory," when he slew Abel; nor would Abel have won "glory," had he, in strictest self-defence, succeeded in slaying the wicked Cain.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 02 (of 20) by Charles Sumner