After we had been all over the house, and I had told her the colour of everything she touched, she suggested that we go to the hen-houses and barns; but I told her she must wait until another day because I was very tired.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

And when he came to institute minute inquiries, he eventually found out: "that Chia Yü-ts'un was also coming to the capital to have an audience with His Majesty, that it was entirely because Wang Tzu-t'eng had repeatedly laid before the Throne memorials recommending him that he was coming on this occasion to wait in the metropolis for a vacancy which he could fill up; that as he was a kinsman of Chia Lien's, acknowledging the same ancestors as he did, and he stood, on the other hand, with Tai-yü, in the relationship of tutor and pupil, he was in consequence following the same road and coming as their companion; that Lin Ju-hai had already been buried in the ancestral vault, and that every requirement had been attended to with propriety; that Chia Lien, on this voyage to the capital, would, had he progressed by the ordinary stages, have been over a month before he could reach home, but that when he came to hear the good news about Yuan Ch'un, he pressed on day and night to enter the capital; and that the whole journey had been throughout, in every respect, both pleasant and propitious."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

In the first place, the earth and the sun, and the stars and the universe, and the fair order of the seasons, and the division of them into years and months, furnish proofs of their existence, and also there is the fact that all Hellenes and barbarians believe in them.
— from Laws by Plato

Often, a modem has already been built into the computer, when you buy it.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

At every fresh avowal he professed the deepest repentance, and described himself as being “bathed in tears”; but this did not prevent him from putting on a boastful air at times, and some of his stories were so absurdly comical that both he and the prince laughed like madmen.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Gisaka na mig kaduha, Our house has already been broken into twice.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[Pg 171] has been studied, our knowledge of the animal kingdom has been vastly increased, and yet there is hardly a beast bred in the farm-yard today with which the men who made stone weapons were not acquainted and which they had not tamed.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The fact was that a short 511 time ago the Romans had heard that Hiero was dead; and being much alarmed lest people in Syracuse, despising the youth of the grandson whom he left, should stir up a revolution, they had made this cruise with the intention of being ready there to assist his youthful weakness, and to help in maintaining his authority; but being informed that his grandfather was still alive, they sailed back again.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Yours and yours, my poor Sulky!—My boots there, ho!—Meet me two hours hence at the bottom of the garden; and if you don't find Tony Lumpkin a more good-natured fellow than you thought for, I'll give you leave to take my best horse, and Bet Bouncer into the bargain.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith

The flames licked up the other fiery flood, and had a brave battle in the cellar.
— from Hope Mills; Or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda M. Douglas

Brother Kimball, not having strength to lift him, called to me, just across the river, to come and help assist Brother Brigham into the house, where, after placing him upon the bed, we administered to him and he recovered consciousness.
— from Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

None of those men had any better blood in their veins than I've got in mine, an' if you want to call it that, none of 'em had more self-conceit."
— from Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

The next three levels have all been burned into the bowels of the planetoid.
— from The Risk Profession by Donald E. Westlake

“And I have a bad bruise in the right leg,” answered my fellow prisoner.
— from When Santiago Fell; or, The War Adventures of Two Chums by Edward Stratemeyer

The aroma of the ham and bacon, broiled in the winter open, would have made a jaded epicure hungry.
— from The Tree of Appomattox by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

The office was of course political, as it has always been, both in the United States and the mother country.
— from Martin Van Buren by Edward Morse Shepard

If the tubes are large, the whole joint should subsequently be heated and blown, but in the case of small tubes this is of less importance.
— from The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame For the use of chemical and physical students by W. A. (William Ashwell) Shenstone

I had a baby bed in the house which I have for all my children, and my daughter still uses the baby bed, so anyway, Marina and Lee wanted to go to the lakeside which isn't too far from my home.
— from Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission