The mayor of the village, in delivering the prize to the author of it, made a warm speech in which he said that it was by far the most “eloquent” thing he had ever listened to, and that Daniel Webster himself might well be proud of it.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Moreover those who issue the invitation are no respecters of persons:— “Let those which are near, arrive the first, Let those which are far off be sent for, Let those which have eggs, leave their eggs, Those which have young, leave their young, Those which are blind, be led by others, Those which have broken limbs, come on crutches; Come and assemble in King Solomon’s Audience-Chamber.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

“Ye’ve made a sore hash of my brig; I haven’t hands enough left to work her; and my first officer (whom I could ill spare) has got your sword throughout his vitals, and passed without speech.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

But sad to tell, not long at Rome Had eloquence like this its home.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

In these two fortresses perished many persons of note, among whom was Pagano Doria, knight of the Order of St. John, a man of generous disposition, as was shown by his extreme liberality to his brother, the famous John Andrea Doria; and what made his death the more sad was that he was slain by some Arabs to whom, seeing that the fort was now lost, he entrusted himself, and who offered to conduct him in the disguise of a Moor to Tabarca, a small fort or station on the coast held by the Genoese employed in the coral fishery.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

or else something of this kind—"Before you get to Boston the hides will wear the hair off your head, and you'll take up all your wages in clothes, and won't have enough left to buy a wig with!"
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The English have entirely left the city!
— from American Historical and Literary Curiosities: Second Series, Complete by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

420-450 Lying on the ground, he gazes on his eyes like two stars, and fingers worthy of Bacchus, and hair worthy of Apollo, and his youthful cheeks and ivory neck, and the comeliness of his mouth, and his blushing complexion mingled with the whiteness of snow; and everything he admires, for which he himself is worthy to be admired.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

In Germany I am treated with gloomy caution: for years I have rejoiced in the privilege of such absolute freedom of speech, as no one nowadays, least of all in the "Empire," has enough liberty to claim.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And with courageous hands and prompt my Leader Thrust me between the sepulchres towards him, Exclaiming, "Let thy words explicit be." As soon as I was at the foot of his tomb Somewhat he eyed me, and, as if disdainful, Then asked of me, "Who were thine ancestors?" I, who desirous of obeying was, Concealed it not, but all revealed to him; Whereat he raised his brows a little upward.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

She was a fine tall woman, black and quick and fierce, with a proud way of carrying her head, and a glint from her eye like the spark from a flint.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

“Has Edwards left the house?”
— from The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna by James Fenimore Cooper

Even as he fought the beast, Billie realized that in some manner the [Pg 26] ape had learned to fear firearms, but whether it had ever learned to use them he could not venture a guess.
— from The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes by Frank Fowler

I would then allow Nemo to bite my finger, and if he bit it too hard I would slap him again, and in this manner soon taught him to understand that Mickie only bit me in fun, and he evidently learned that this was a fact.
— from The Speech of Monkeys by R. L. (Richard Lynch) Garner

" For two years and a half, as he informs us, that awful scripture sounded in his ears like the knell of a lost soul.
— from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VI. (Of VII) Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, Plus Personal Sketches and Tributes and Historical Papers by John Greenleaf Whittier

What have you to fear when I am with you?" echoed in her ears like the most beautiful melody which she had ever sting or heard.
— from Barbara Blomberg — Volume 10 by Georg Ebers

Caroline Richards and her sister Anna, having early lost their mother, were sent to the home of her parents in Canandaigua, New York, where they were brought up in the simplicity and sweetness of a refined household, amid Puritan traditions.
— from Village Life in America 1852-1872, Including the Period of the American Civil War As Told in the Diary of a School-Girl by Caroline Cowles Richards

It is due also to the memory of Frederic to say that he earnestly labored to secure to his people the great blessing of cheap and speedy justice.
— from Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron