And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to the people at Montfermeil, seemed to have abandoned her child?
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Si te forte iuvant Helles Athamantidos urbes, Nec desiderio, Tulle, movere meo, Tu licet aspicias caelum omne Atlanta gerentem, 8 Sectaque Persea Phorcidos ora manu, Geryonis stabula et luctantum in pulvere signa Herculis Antaeique Hesperidumque choros, Tuque tuo Colchum propellas remige Phasim, 12 Peliacaeque trabis totum iter ipse legas, Qua rudis Argoa natat inter saxa columba In faciem prorae pinus adacta novae, Et siqua Ortygii visenda est ora Caystri, 16
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

In our happiest days, Perdita had adorned her cottage with every aid art might bring, to that which nature had selected to favour.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Also I haue heard that this is obserued amongst them, that by how much the nobler a woman is, by so much the higher are her Chapineys.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

And here again her critics seem hardly to realise the situation, hardly to put themselves in the place of a girl whose lover, estranged from her, goes mad and kills her father.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

It arose from blows of hammer and hatchet, clinking of pincers and cranching of saws.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

After that Semyon Ivanovitch would have gone on talking; but this time they would not let him, they all intervened, began entreating him, assuring him, comforting him, and succeeded in making Semyon Ivanovitch thoroughly ashamed of himself, and at last, in a faint voice, he asked leave to explain himself.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Ah, but I will consider it all later," he said to himself, as his cabriolet silently approached the asphalt pavement of the court-house.
— from The Awakening (The Resurrection) by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Half a million throats shouted London's welcome; the soldier of two worlds knew the roar of battle, and the roar of the sea was familiar to the Nizzard sailor, but it is said that when Garibaldi heard the stupendous and almost awful British roar which greeted him as he came out of the Nine Elms station, and took his seat in the carriage that was to convey him to Stafford House, he looked completely disconcerted.
— from The Liberation of Italy, 1815-1870 by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

And within the hour, as he could see by the clods of loosened earth still dropping down and making muddy the water underneath; while bubbles were ascending from the detached boulder lying invisible below!
— from Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid

On Sunday, the day before Yom Kippur, when the Jews opened their stores for a few hours, a hired crowd of ruffians from among the local street mob fell upon the Jewish stores and began to destroy and loot whatever goods it could lay its hands on.
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 2 [of 3] From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1825-1894) by Simon Dubnow

"Hey, Astro," he called.
— from Stand by for Mars! by Carey Rockwell

Jericho was anxious to avoid a “public hubbub,” as he called a sale.
— from John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 [of 2] by William Powell Frith

Well, she has left him and has come back to live with her mother.
— from The Captives by Hugh Walpole

Why should he allow her childish prattle to stand in the way of his desires.
— from The Mask: A Story of Love and Adventure by Arthur Hornblow

He and his companions had often discussed the question of the vitality of Catholicism.
— from The Saint by Antonio Fogazzaro

coatl, that he and his Council of the Twenty Lords may decide what now is right to do.
— from The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier