Everywhere around her were the evidences of wealth and splendor; while in strange contrast to all this, and to her own beauty; the awkward groom stood rubbing his bullet head as my lady explained to him what she intended to do for her confidential maid.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

For an ye heard a music, like enow They are building still, seeing the city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built for ever.'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Mr. Hallidie and Manager Locks escorted the general and his party to the booth in the Tintern Abbey where they partook of refreshments.
— from Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake Alverson

This code which embraces the universality of things thenceforth becomes human, and mortal like everything that is human.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

"We next went to Monsieur de Wagner, the Prussian Consul (who expressed the same opinion), and to Colonel Hodges and Monsieur Laurin, expressing to both our sincere thanks for what they had done in favour of the Jews in Damascus, Safed, and the Holy Land in general."
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

I have all my life endeavoured to keep an open mind on these questions, and have been prepared to accept new ideas and new modes of thought.
— from An Autobiography by Catherine Helen Spence

The plain but powerful summary of public obligation had a more lasting effect than his more fiery appeals.
— from Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall

Holding his light at arm's length, above his head, a million little eyes twinkled back at him as the rays shot to and fro on the pointed facets of the rock crystals which hung from the roof and started out of the walls and ground.
— from A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham

He must go into the house after Miss Lizzie entered the barn and he must disappear before she returned.
— from The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders by Edwin H. Porter

“No, he ain't,” the servant said, “and ain't been at home all night; there were a row between him and maister last even; they had a fight.
— from Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

It is to his credit that although engaged in almost perpetual wars, and burdened moreover with the administration of a mighty empire, he had a mind large enough to entertain the consideration also of intellectual problems, and to enjoy and take part in their discussion; but it could scarcely be expected that, with his numerous other employments, he should really sound to their utmost depths the profundities of Greek thought, or understand the speculative difficulties which separated the various schools one from another.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7: The Sassanian or New Persian Empire The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

"I cannot deny that I have all my life endeavored to relieve myself, for one, of the popular reproach that women are unfit for the sphere of highest----" "Dinner's ready!" cried the parlor-maid in at the door.
— from Problematic Characters: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen