It evidently gave him great pleasure to present me thus in triumph to the literary world, and in order to give the subject more prominence he added a supplement to that number in the shape of a lithograph reproduction of my portrait by Kietz.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

We passed under the “Ecce Homo Arch,” and saw the very window from which Pilate’s wife warned her husband to have nothing to do with the persecution of the Just Man.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

In 1867 a swarm of men, supplied with hammers and axes, stripped the house of its habit, and showed in all its splendor the great structure.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

The little party were soon guided, by Mrs. Smyth, to the hospitable abode of a good missionary, whom Christian charity has placed here as a shepherd to the outcast and wandering, who are constantly finding an asylum on this shore.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Pg 122] the things in which men most excel women are those which require most plodding and long hammering at a single thought, while women do best what must be done rapidly?
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

It seemed an age till he heard the steps and voices approaching again—and this time he heard an added sound,—the trampling of hoofs, apparently.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Here also are said to be other springs, which now are fed with floods of rising water, and, overflowing in full channels, cast a mass of spray upwards; and now again their bubbling flags, and they can scarce be seen below at the bottom, and are swallowed into deep hiding far under ground.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Picture that Mr. Strong Man who thrusts his thumbs into his armholes and sits tipped back in his chair with a cigar in the corner of his mouth and his heels comfortably reposing on his solid mahogany desk.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Here also are scraped together the horrid fragments of those who have bequeathed their carcasses to the hungry dogs and vultures, that hover, and prowl, and swoop, and pounce, and snarl, and scream, and tear.
— from The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens

A spirit that is like hers, arises and increases in human affairs, a spirit that demands freedom and gracious living as our inheritance too long deferred, and I who loved her so blindly and narrowly now love her spirit with a dawning understanding.
— from The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And, in fact, he tasted a certain comfort in the bottom of this hole; the heat was not too great, an equal temperature reigned here at all seasons, the warmth of a bath, while the rough December wind was chapping the skins of the miserable people on the earth.
— from Germinal by Émile Zola

And Simon and they that were with him followed after him; and they found him, and say unto him, "All are seeking thee."
— from His Life: A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels by William Eleazar Barton

But Ralph rallied him after a short time.
— from The Border Boys Along the St. Lawrence by John Henry Goldfrap

When this sign of distress had a little abated, he arose, and said ‘Time’ as if he had been a mere cornerman in the affair, and rather bored by it than otherwise.
— from Bulldog And Butterfly From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by David Christie Murray

The Sergeant, strange to say, lost his temper when, having declared "upon his honour as a soldier" that he meant no harm, and could therefore make no apology, he was called to order by the Moderator for using such a word as "honour" in a Church court.
— from The Starling: A Scottish Story by Norman Macleod

Possessed of these peculiarities she had attained, as spinster, that very uncertain age called by some "certain," but agreed by all to be nearer the end than the commencement of life.
— from The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Nathaniel Armstrong Wells

"Not so," said Sir Launcelot, "touch him no more, for I will never see that most noble king that made me knight either slain or shamed;" and therewith Sir Launcelot alighted off his horse, and took up the king, and horsed him again, and said thus: "My lord Arthur, for God's love, cease this strife."
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Bore two holes in the head at A , slanting them toward one another, and fit in them the pegs cut for the horns.
— from The Boy Craftsman Practical and Profitable Ideas for a Boy's Leisure Hours by A. Neely (Albert Neely) Hall