“You should have come sooner,” said Gerard, “and then you might have gone round with the fine folks.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

In a month or more, having sold a large part of her cargo, she stretches over to Catalina, or other of the large uninhabited islands which lie off the coast, in a trip from port to port, and supplies herself with choice goods from a vessel from Oahu, which has been lying off and on the islands, waiting for her.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Thus, though suffering, she was by no means desolate, and when, during fine summer days, she led her mother into the flowery and shady lanes near their abode, a gleam of unmixed joy enlightened her countenance; she saw that her parent was happy, and she knew that this happiness was of her sole creating.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

That he can hither come so soon, Is by your fancy’s thankful doom.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He came so straight towards the front door that it seemed quite incredible that he had not just come out of the study opposite to it.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

So I did freely at first word do it, and give her a crown more freely to buy her child something, she being a good-natured and painful wretch, and one that I would do good for as far as I can that I might not be burdened.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She brought it bits of bouquets, she read to it, took it out to breathe fresh air, hidden under her coat, she sang it lullabies and never went to bed without kissing its dirty face and whispering tenderly, "I hope you'll have a good night, my poor dear.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Till the autumn came and vanished, till the season of the rains, Till the western world lay fettered in midwinter’s crystal chains, Still she listened for his coming, Still she watched the distant plains.
— from The White Wampum by E. Pauline Johnson

Injungo nihilominus vobis ad meritum salutaris obedientiae, quatenus praesentationem hujusmodi cum solemnitate solita sine multo dispendio facere debeatis; si tamen constiterit vobis, quod dominus Cancellarius velit duos simul licentiare de nostris, volo et placet mihi, quod frater Albertus Methensis, si ad Conventum redire poterit, cum praefato fratre Joanne debeat expediri.
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

So far as he could see she was a great deal more inclined to worry over Vic, who refused to stay in school when he could now and then earn a dollar or two acting in "mob scenes" for some photoplay company out in Hollywood.
— from Starr, of the Desert by B. M. Bower

The word "Well" to the first stanza marks the raising of the curtain and we see the ardent Negro boy lover nonsensically prattling to the one of his fancy about everything in creation until he is so tired that he can scarcely stand erect.
— from Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley

Dennis gazed upon them with a fascinated horror, and as he looked it seemed to him that in the mouldering receptacle of death nearest to him he could see something bright shining through the crevices of the boarding that, warped by long inhumation, leaned partly open.
— from True, and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop

"I am sorry if I have interrupted you when you have company," she said slowly.
— from The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine

[Enter HAEMON] CREON Soon shall we know, better than seer can tell.
— from Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone by Sophocles

And conscious of the outrage he commits, Shall seek it and not find it in his turn.
— from The Task, and Other Poems by William Cowper

Then, for the first time, his cheeks showed symptoms of returning to their natural color, and he exclaimed fervently, “Thank God!
— from Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins