Mrs. Bennet had so carefully provided for the entertainment of her brother and sister, that they did not once sit down to a family dinner.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

We’ll MAKE him be a sensible Toad.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

In later times, especially among non-bardic poets, there has been a similar tendency to misinterpret this primitive mystical Celtic pantheism into the corrupt form of the re-birth doctrine, namely transmigration of the human soul into animal bodies.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The admiral caused him tell his story more at large and having heard everything from him as it had happened, was about to depart, when Gianni called him back and said to him, 'For God's sake, my lord, an it may be, get me one favour of him who maketh me to abide thus.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

He here paused abruptly, bent his head to his bosom, and seemed to listen to a sound which I could not hear.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

But searching more narrowly, it appeared he had been affected some time; and as soon as he found that his family had been poisoned by himself he went distracted, and would have laid violent hands upon himself, but was kept from that by those who looked to him, and in a few days died. (2) The other particular is, that many people having been well to the best of their own judgement, or by the best observation which they could make of themselves for several days, and only finding a decay of appetite, or a light sickness upon their stomachs; nay, some whose appetite has been strong, and even craving, and only a light pain in their heads, have sent for physicians to know what ailed them, and have been found, to their great surprise, at the brink of death: the tokens upon them, or the plague grown up to an incurable height.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

This has been a severe teacher, but under him we have become potent.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Ang ímung ranggu nagbitay sa usa ka lugas lánut, Your rank is hanging by a single thread (i.e. you are in imminent danger of demotion).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He bent again, stroking the beautiful hair.
— from Jack Ballington, Forester by John Trotwood Moore

Yea, Abel also, forasmuch as he acted faith before he offered sacrifice, must thereby entirely respect the promise, which promise was not grounded upon a condition of works to be found in Abel, but in and for the sake of the seed of the woman, which is Christ; which promise he believed, and so took it for granted that this Christ should break the serpent's head—that is, destroy by himself the works of the devil; to wit, sin, death, the curse, and hell (Gal 4:4).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Of course Lavirotte would not recognise in him the grandfather of Dora, but they had been acquainted some time and were partners in his secret, in his great undertaking.
— from The Last Call: A Romance (Vol. 2 of 3) by Richard Dowling

I was, however, but a short time on shore, for as soon as the boats were unloaded we pulled away to the brig.
— from Twice Lost by William Henry Giles Kingston

"Jim," said he, "can you show me his bones, and swear to your belief that he was an escaped pauper?"
— from Sevenoaks: A Story of Today by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland

Jean handed his barrow and shovel to his relief, and, mounting the succession of steep, iron-runged perpendicular ladders, climbed upward from the ship's black depths, and made his way to the steerage deck.
— from The Belovéd Traitor by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

From nine till noon the air was filled with revilings and reproaches—all leveled at the one sinless Sufferer; but now, for three hours, these have been absolutely silent, till at last one cry of agony breaks the stillness; and it is from Him who "was oppressed and afflicted, yet opened not His mouth; was brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before her shearer is dumb, so opened He not His mouth:"—"Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani"—"My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me!" There, my beloved readers, look there!
— from Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Frederick Charles Jennings

And then he went on to say—"I am well aware that I have but a short time to live; my mode of life has rendered it impossible that I should get rid of this fever.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. IX.—February, 1851.—Vol. II. by Various

In the meantime the friends and relations of the family pay to him their visits of congratulation; whilst the woman attends to the business of the house, carries victuals and drink to the husband in his bed, and suckles the infant at his side.”
— from Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould