But now a knocking at the door was heard, and such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

Prince Andrew’s last stay at Boguchárovo, when he introduced hospitals and schools and reduced the quitrent the peasants had to pay, had not softened their disposition but had on the contrary strengthened in them the traits of character the old prince called boorishness.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Wordsworth was born in 1770 at Cockermouth, Cumberland, where the Derwent, Fairest of all rivers, loved To blend his murmurs with my nurse's song, And from his alder shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

But finally she heaves a sigh, And rising from her bench proceeds;
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Humanely taking the part of a young girl who was accused of witchcraft, his enemies asserted that he was himself a sorcerer, and raised such a storm over his head, that he was forced to fly the city.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

She had another self, another responsibility.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

He named it with humility and shame and repented of it once more.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The family and the state had a soberer antique religion of their own; this hereditary piety, together with the laws, prescribed education, customs, and duties.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

He raised me, and, as I bent towards the door, led me to the stairs foot, and, saluting me there again, left me to go up to my closet, where I threw myself on my knees in raptures of joy, and blessed that gracious God, who had thus changed my distress to happiness, and so abundantly rewarded me for all the sufferings I had passed through.—And
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

"I fear, captain," said Marcel to Blake, "that we have achieved such a reputation for valorous conduct that we will never be able to prove the tenth part of it."
— from In Hostile Red by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

The builder and decorator’s man would have aimed simply at reproducing something which impressed him because it was in a printed book: his horses do not represent what he knows or feels about horses, but what he is able to crib from a photographer in a book advertising somebody’s food or embrocation; his “Coach and Horses” is painful to see, because it ought obviously to be in a book.
— from The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas

Any one who hears this, as I have stated it, no doubt supposes that it has reference to images, because they are the works of the hands of men; but he asserts that visible and tangible images are, as it were, only the bodies of the gods, and that there dwell in them certain spirits, which have been invited to come into them, and which have power to inflict harm, or to fulfil the desires of those by whom divine honours and services are rendered to them.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Nothing is beyond the reach of his ambition, and his ambition soars at random; he is light-hearted, generous, and enthusiastic; in short, the fledgling bird has discovered that he has wings.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The first of these was known as the “proprietary companies,” and included the Southern Pacific Railroad of California, the Southern Pacific Railroad of New Mexico, the Southern Pacific Railroad of Arizona, Morgan’s Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company, the Louisiana and Western Railroad, the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, and the Northern Railway.
— from Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific by Stuart Daggett

The tyrant, hearing that Eustace de Vesci had a very beautiful wife, but far distant from court, and studying how to accomplish his licentious designs towards her, sitting at table with her husband and seeing a ring on his finger, he laid hold of it and told him that he had such another stone, which he resolved to set in gold in that very form.
— from Finger-Ring Lore: Historical, Legendary, Anecdotal by Jones, William, F.S.A.

In the old days, when huge and strange animals roamed through the world, there was an era [27] when great size was necessary, as a protection.
— from The Crow's Nest by Clarence Day

Her ladyship instantly put on her hood and gloves, and her woman tied up a handkerchief full of things; for her principal matters were not unpacked; and her coachman got her chariot ready, and her footmen their horses; and she appeared resolved to go.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson