Don’t you think Diana has got very soulful eyes?
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

You will read the story of his great victory in the Battle of New Orleans.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

He has not, indeed, many hooks; but with what hooks he has, he grapples very forcibly.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

A similar image of him, decked with all the fruits of the earth, is said to have stood in a temple before a figure of Isis, and in the chambers dedicated to him at Philae the dead god is portrayed lying on his bier in an attitude which indicates in the plainest way that even in death his generative virtue was not extinct but only suspended, ready to prove a source of life and fertility to the world when the opportunity should offer.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I had brought some of my nicest books for him: he asked me to read a little of one, and I was about to comply, when Earnshaw burst the door open: having gathered venom with reflection.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

King Harald also gave Harald Grenske Vingulmark, Vestfold, and Agder all the way to Lidandisnes (the Naze), together with the title of king; and let him have these dominions with the same rights as his family in former times had held them, and as Harald Harfager had given with them to his sons.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

“Why,” cried she, “I have had grander views for you myself, if once I could get you to Paris, and make you be owned; but if I can’t do that, and you can do no better, why, as you are both my relations, I think to leave my fortune between you; and then, if you marry, you never need want for nothing.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

In 788, the emperor found it necessary to call three general plaids , and, besides these, he was pleased to summon his great vassals, both clerical and lay, to the four principal feasts of the year.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Then she reminded the Queen of her agreement, and led her back to the camp, and next morning she went back to her kingdom, but before she had gone very far she began to repent of her bargain, and when the King came out to meet her she looked so sad that he guessed that something had happened, and asked what was the matter.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Chin Jung became still more haughty, and wagging his head and smacking his lips, he gave vent to many more abusive epithets; but as it happened that they also reached Yü Ai's ears, the two of them, though seated apart, began an altercation in a loud tone of voice.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

," says Uncle Theodore with his gruffest voice: "You have known it the whole time!"
— from Invisible Links by Selma Lagerlöf

Nevertheless, though he was mounted by the man and forced out of his way by the violence of the current, the paramount excellence of his nature enabled him to keep his great vigour intact, and he reached the riverbank according to the wish of that man.
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura

They cannot have gone very far, and they cannot get away, for, as some of you are aware, it is impossible to make one’s way very far inland from here; we are completely shut in on the landward side by inaccessible cliffs.
— from A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood

His voice had grown vindictive.
— from Sophy of Kravonia: A Novel by Anthony Hope

By the year 1781 he had grown very old and feeble.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 02 (of 15), American (2) by Charles Morris

He gave vent to sentiments which caused me to lose my self-control, and I exclaimed: "Mr. Stokes, we shall be hanging men like you in less than six weeks."
— from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie

He remembered the address that Miss Carol had given Vane just as he remembered every other word of the conversation.
— from The Missionary by George Chetwynd Griffith

The use of it also could not at that time be so important and necessary, as to enable us to determine whether they were acquainted with it; whereas, on the other hand, green vitriol and alum can easily be distinguished among the materials for dyeing.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

he gasped, vastly astonished at hearing Jack air his conviction.
— from Eagles of the Sky; Or, With Jack Ralston Along the Air Lanes by Ambrose Newcomb

I wish here to record my grateful obligations for all these friendly courtesies, which have given value to the book, besides saving me from many of the pitfalls with which the subject abounds.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose