She would hesitate a moment, look at her neighbors, and then quietly sit upright again.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I gave him all my life.
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

I saw from thence how above me lightnings glimmered cleaving the clouds; I saw green forests, fields, rivers, lakes, cities; I heard syrens singing, and the playing of the pipes of Pan; I touched the wings of beautiful devils who came flying to me to speak of God....
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When mongrels and the more fertile hybrids are propagated for several generations an extreme amount of variability in their offspring is notorious; but some few cases both of hybrids and mongrels long retaining uniformity of character could be given.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

But he remained standing over against the altar, out of humor and meanness, looking towards his brother Abel, to see if God would accept his offering or not.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

I never saw a fellow worse bested, Or more afraid to fight, than is the appellant, The servant of his armourer, my lords.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Dear Rev. Sir, THE solemn manner in which you have committed your child to my care, has in some measure damped the pleasure which I receive from the trust, as it makes me fear that you suffer from your compliance, in which case I shall very sincerely blame myself for the earnestness with which I have requested this favour: but remember, my good Sir, she is within a few days summons; and be assured, I will not detain her a moment longer than you wish.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

As he moved away he saw Lawrence Lefferts, tall and resplendent, leading his wife up to be introduced; and heard Gertrude Lefferts say, as she beamed on the Countess with her large unperceiving smile: "But I think we used to go to dancing-school together when we were children—." Behind her, waiting their turn to name themselves to the Countess, Archer noticed a number of the recalcitrant couples who had declined to meet her at Mrs. Lovell Mingott's.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

He armed my limbs with burnished mail Whose lustre turns the sunbeams pale, In battle proof gainst heavenly bands With thunder in their threatening hands.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Mr. Hater tells me at noon that some rude people have been, as he hears, at my Lord Chancellor’s, where they have cut down the trees before his house and broke his windows; and a gibbet either set up before or painted upon his gate, and these three words writ: “Three sights to be seen; Dunkirke, Tangier, and a barren Queene.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I’ve had a miserable life of it since I came on board this frigate.
— from From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure by William Henry Giles Kingston

Bogdan sees red, and stabs the man, to be struck down dead himself a moment later.—In this story the growth of the revolutionary spirit is manifest.
— from The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

I have known him all my life."
— from Peter's Mother by De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs.

This occupied him eight months, and proved to be far more troublesome to him and much less satisfactory than the like investigation which he had made with reference to the Aztecs.
— from William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

If ever I get home alive, my lady—Ha!—( striking the door with her slipper .)
— from The Bride of Fort Edward: Founded on an Incident of the Revolution by Delia Salter Bacon

Mr. Holton and Mr. Lewis were waiting for them.
— from The Forest of Mystery by James H. Foster

Mrs. B. You know that the revolution of the earth on its axis, must give to every particle a tendency to fly off from the centre, that this tendency is stronger, or weaker, in proportion to the velocity with which the particle moves; now a particle situated near to one of the poles, makes one rotation in the same space of time as a particle at the equator; the latter, therefore, having a much larger circle to describe, travels proportionally faster, consequently the centrifugal force is much stronger at the equator than in the polar regions: it gradually decreases as you leave the equator and approach the poles, at which points the centrifugal force, entirely ceases.
— from Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet

I sat down on one side of him, and my landlord on the other side.
— from The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 Together with Other Documents, Official and Private, Relating to the Same Mission, to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park by Mungo Park

And here a most ludicrous scene occurred during the night.
— from The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Rajah of Sarawak James

Monthly payments are made by share holders and money loaned on real-estate.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 by Various