It has a stately hump, a rich silky hanging tail nearly reaching the ground, twisted horns, a noble bearing, and an erect head.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

It had already risen so high that it was approaching the eaves, and when it reaches this point there is always imminent risk of their being swept away.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

“I think that I heard a ring,” said Holmes.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

I therefore sent my French body-servant, in the year 17—, to Dublin with a commission to bring the young reprobate over; and the report brought to me was that he had passed the whole of the last night of his stay in Ireland with his Popish friend at the mass-house; that he and my mother had a violent quarrel on the very last day; that, on the contrary, he kissed Biddy and Dosy, her two nieces, who seemed very sorry that he should go; and that being pressed to go and visit the rector, he absolutely refused, saying he was a wicked old Pharisee, inside whose doors he would never set his foot.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

[He lets her go, stamping with rage at having forgotten himself, and recoils so hastily that he stumbles back into his seat on the ottoman].
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

But, as man has a rational soul, he subordinates all this which he has in common with the beasts to the peace of his rational soul, that his intellect may have free play and may regulate his actions, and that he may thus enjoy the well-ordered harmony of knowledge and action which constitutes, as we have said, the peace of the rational soul.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

However sweetly humble and requisite, said he, this may appear to my dear Pamela's niceness, it befits me to tell you, that I am every moment more and more pleased with the right you have to my name: and, my dear life, added he, I have only to wish I may be half as worthy as you are of the happy knot so lately knit.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Getting called on the Chancellor's carpet because Oxford University call him and really shook him up… but I had a team of 6 lawyers, half from the University of Illinois, who backed me up, so we made Oxford back down.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Joseph was now come up, and Mrs Slipslop would have had him quit his horse to the parson, and come himself into the coach; but he absolutely refused, saying, he thanked Heaven he was well enough recovered to be very able to ride; and added, he hoped he knew his duty better than to ride in a coach while Mr Adams was on horseback.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

She asks if she can have a room, some hot water, etc.
— from Manners and Social Usages by M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood

He turned his back upon his friend and covered his face with his hands, and Raphael saw his shoulders quivering.
— from The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

She was a most appreciative listener, and in the warmth of his confidence she opened her mind to him, and rather surprised him by her range of intelligence and the singular uprightness of her opinions, and more still by her ready wit and playfulness.
— from That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner

"Very well, I will say hastened away," replied Sir Herbert impatiently.
— from The Shrieking Pit by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

We rose early on the 27th, and starting at half-past six, continued moving until noon, when we encamped in a valley a little before the water of Akourou, where there is herbage for the camels in a hollow amidst rocky sandstone hills.
— from Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson

I had a regular saddle horse, two pairs for cay'age.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

First, he admired Rose; second, he was poor, and Rose had at least $10,000 a year entirely at her own disposal; third, he hated Antony; and for these reasons, to induce Rose to leave Antony had become the passion of his life—a passion so eager, earnest, and pervading, that Rose was frightened at its strength.
— from Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance by Amelia E. Barr

But, nevertheless, even in her attic room she has had a glimpse of Paradise.
— from North, South and Over the Sea by M. E. Francis

Men and women tear their clothes off, looking to see if they have anywhere upon them a rash or a patch of mottled skin, find that they have, or imagine that they have, and rush, screaming, half-undressed, into the street.
— from John Ingerfield, and Other Stories by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome