"Hallo!" cried Little Claus, rushing out of the door, and seizing hold of the landlord by the throat; "you have killed my grandmother; see, here is a great hole in her forehead.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I explained that my theory of education for the Negro would not, for example, confine him for all time to farm life—to the production of the best and the most sweet potatoes—but that, if he succeeded in this line of industry, he could lay the foundations upon which his children and grand-children could grow to higher and more important things in life.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

He felt convinced, as I was, that De la Haye had been useful to him only through weak or selfish reasons, that is, that he would have cared little for his soul if his face had not been handsome, and if he had not known that he would derive important advantages from having caused his so-called conversion.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

His character, life, age, and death, are plainly and manifestly described to all that resort thither, by the epitaph on his tomb, in thirty-four heroic verses.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

And yet there are people who send him cruel letters!
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

In about five minutes I had completely lost my head; the side of the rift became hundreds of feet in height, and overhung so that I could not see the sky.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Having fallen into the habit, When he came late to Odette, of identifying her window by the fact that it was the only one still lighted in a row of windows otherwise all alike, he had been misled, this time, by the light, and had knocked at the window beyond hers, in the adjoining house.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Delighted with the profound attention which her companion lent her, she continued, allowing herself to be carried away by the charm of the thoughts she evoked.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

A Christian models his conduct less on the teaching than on the pattern of the Saviour.
— from The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods by Rudolf Steiner

The Yankee has completely “left” me—that is the word—for this angular daughter of Albion.
— from The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia Being the Exploits and Experiences of Claudius Bombarnac of "The Twentieth Century" by Jules Verne

Charlie's bedroom was at the angle of a wall, and on two sides he could look down from his windows, two hundred feet, sheer into the valley below.
— from With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

From where Georgina sat she could look out through the door and see the lights of a hundred boats twinkling in long wavy lines across the black water, and now and then a salt breeze with the fishy tang she loved, stole across the room and touched her cheek like a cool finger.
— from Georgina of the Rainbows by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

He loved her deeply and tenderly, and found in her love the brightest feature of his chequered life.
— from Three Apostles of Quakerism: Popular Sketches of Fox, Penn and Barclay by Benjamin Rhodes

Then he cautiously let himself down so that he hung by his knees, then clutched the limb with his hands, hung for a moment with his legs dangling, and let go.
— from Pee-Wee Harris by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

When hungry children look at you, they do not need to speak.
— from The Measure of a Man by Amelia E. Barr

"I don't think I am, in fact I'm sure," she answered with a break in her curled lips.
— from Andrew the Glad by Maria Thompson Daviess