,” said he at last, with earnest kindness, “do you think you perfectly understand the degree of acquaintance between the gentleman and lady we have been speaking of?” “Between Mr. Frank Churchill and Miss Fairfax?
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Rosamond had a Providence of her own who had kindly made her more charming than other girls, and who seemed to have arranged Fred's illness and Mr. Wrench's mistake in order to bring her and Lydgate within effective proximity.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

For now the monarch bade combine Each custom of his ancient line With every rite Ayodhyá's state Observed, her kings to consecrate.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

This stream is regulated by the flux and reflux of the sea—it being constantly high and low water every six hours.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Near a house I met Generals Howard and Logan, who explained that there was an intrenched battery to their front, with the appearance of a strong infantry support.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

His imagination pictured his mother’s sending him to the kitchen garden by the river to gather cabbage leaves for the little pig; he saw himself walking along, while the boys and girls surrounded him and looked with envy at his little dressing-gown.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

IF YOU WOULD FORGIVE YOUR ENEMY, says the Malay proverb, FIRST INFLICT A HURT ON HIM; and Lily was experiencing the truth of the apothegm.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

But now Mr. Bygate, the lawyer, who had been in the house ever since the death, came forward to give deferential greetings and answer all questions, and Arthur walked with him towards the library, where his Aunt Lydia was expecting him.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

If a man have a lock, which every man's key will open, as well as his own, why should he think to keep it private to himself?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

A spot was selected, higher up the tree, where a number of branches ran out horizontally, almost level with each other.
— from The Wanderers; Or, Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by William Henry Giles Kingston

It was desperately hard and long work, easy as it may sound in description—especially when I had to hold on by the top of the wall, with my flat opera hat (as we used to call it in those days) laid, as a guard, between my hand and the glass, while I cleared a way through the sharp bottle-ends for my other hand and my knees.
— from A Rogue's Life by Wilkie Collins

"Did you speak to me, Lady Dashwood?" asked a girlish voice, and Lady Dashwood turned swiftly at the sound and saw just within the doorway a girlish figure, a pretty face with dark hair and large wandering eyes.
— from The New Warden by Ritchie, David G. (David George), Mrs.

The effects of exercise are two-fold: on the one hand a stimulus is given to the action of the heart and lungs, which enables the blood to be more thoroughly oxygenated and more rapidly circulated; on the other hand, there is an expenditure force, accompanying the increased activity of the organic changes.
— from Practical Training for Running, Walking, Rowing, Wrestling, Boxing, Jumping, and All Kinds of Athletic Feats Together with tables of proportional measurement for height and weight of men in and out of condition; etc. etc. by Ed. James

" Patience, in her blue shepherd-plaid gingham dress and white apron, was standing by the window—a handsome woman, a dozen years younger than her husband; her strong face was gentler than most strong faces are—in women; peace and pain, power and subjection, were fused upon her aspect like warring elements reconciled by a mystery.
— from Comrades by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

A boastful, tongue-doughty warrior, who pretends to know everybody; to have a liaison with every wealthy, pretty, or distinguished woman; and to have achieved in war the most amazing prodigies.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

While we were thus employed, Satyrus with a very serious countenance motioned to me to come out of the room: I did so, making some trifling excuse, when without uttering a word he put into my hand a letter, which even before reading it, filled me with consternation, for I recognized Leucippe's writing;—the contents were these:— "Leucippe, to my master Clitopho.
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus

"And on that grave where English oak, and holly, And laurel wreaths entwine, Deem it not all a too-presumptuous folly— This spray of western pine?"
— from A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by W. C. (William Chauncey) Bartlett

And then the scene began again, and after the storm had raged for an hour, he, at last, was enabled to explain himself.
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant

Ethelyn had asked, and Frank had answered, "Looks well enough, though anybody with half an eye would know he was a codger from the West.
— from Ethelyn's Mistake by Mary Jane Holmes