I now had a look at Lyons, and in a walk round the town tried to recall the scenes in Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins, where he so vividly describes the siege and surrender of the town during the period of the Convention Nationale.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Then he put the small, curly head away from him a little, and looked at it affectionately, still repeating: “George!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

, that here I am, with the mighty merchant's note in my hand, as large as life, as hot as fire, and as happy as a king!
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

While Maggie stood and unplaited her long black hair over her pink drapery, Lucy sat down near the toilette-table, watching her with affectionate eyes, and head a little aside, like a pretty spaniel.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

I waited with patience all the forenoon, comforted with the idea that in all probability Laura would find herself at leisure after luncheon, at which time some of the elder part of the company who had not joined the expedition usually drove out.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

In that very moment this poor wretch, seeing himself a little at liberty and unbound, Nature inspired him with hopes of life, and he started away from them, and ran with incredible swiftness along the sands, directly towards me; I mean towards that part of the coast where my habitation was.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

I requested likewise, “that the secret of my having a false covering to my body, might be known to none but himself, at least as long as my present clothing should last; for as to what the sorrel nag, his valet, had observed, his honour might command him to conceal it.”
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

But in truth they were angelic spirits, who came to call me to my heavenly reward, which I have always loved and longed after, and they promised that they would return seven days hence, and take me away with them.” Which was indeed fulfilled, as had been said to him; for being presently seized with bodily infirmity, and the same daily increasing, on the seventh day, as had been promised to him, when he had prepared for death by receiving the Body and Blood of our Lord, his saintly soul being delivered from the prison of the body, led, as may justly be believed, by the attendant angels, he departed to the joys of Heaven.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

He received no stars or bars, but he deserved them, for he cheerfully risked all he had, and life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

my own akes dismally!—as for your healths, I know, they are much better.—True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely through its channels, makes the wheel of life run long and cheerfully round.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

They've such a sense of humour, and love a laugh as well as I do myself." CHAPTER II.
— from Sons of the Morning by Eden Phillpotts

Kate drew back her head a little and looked at her visitor.
— from The Fighting Shepherdess by Caroline Lockhart

"No more apologies, Talton," said the Captain; "let the past be forgotten; for your conduct in future, I will be answerable; and, as the first proof of your friendship, shall demand your attendance again on my Ellenor, as a father.—Your Howard," he continued to Ellenor, "is, thank Heaven, at last at liberty, and here claims your promise, of again uniting your fate to his for ever!"
— from The Mysterious Wanderer; Vol. II by Sophia Reeve

In the spandrels by the side of the house are laburnums and lilacs and laurels.
— from The Red Planet by William John Locke

But already she had recovered herself a little, and Lakatos Andor's somewhat dictatorial tone grated upon her sensitive ear.
— from A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Another had gone down with him and lay half over him, a long arm locked about him in a curious gesture that oddly suggested protection.
— from Captivating Mary Carstairs by Henry Sydnor Harrison

We others—normal and not particularly intelligent little children—joyed in the delights of the country, in our games and our liberty, but he was not only a leader for us in everything, but he also led a life apart from us, seriously studying the birds, their habits and their notes, so that years afterward the result of those long hours of childish concentration took form in his expert knowledge of bird life and lore—so expert a knowledge that even Mr. John Burroughs, the great nature specialist, conceded him equality of information with himself along those lines.
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Early in November, 1856, Orlando C. Howe (a lawyer and later a professor of law at the State University of Iowa), R. U. Wheelock, and B. F. Parmenter, guided by a well-known and widely experienced western trapper, Wiltfong, came from Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, to the lake region on a land-hunting tour.
— from The Spirit Lake Massacre by Thomas Teakle

At last the sun set, and as it was clear to Commandant de Villiers that no reinforcements would come, and as he had already lost at least a third of his men, killed and wounded, he saw that it was impossible to remain there.
— from Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet by J. D. (John Daniel) Kestell