A day or two will be spent here in looking over the wonderful subterraneous fortifications, permission to visit these galleries being readily obtained.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

What is a beating when the very head is loose on the shoulders?' Kim slid out quietly into the night, walked half round the house, keeping close to the walls, and headed away from the station for a mile or so.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

When it was over he bid me, with a tone of displeasure, get up: "that he would not do me the honour to think of me any more; that the old b——h might look out for another cully; that he would not be fooled so by ever a country mock modesty in England; that he supposed I had left my maidenhead with some hobnail in the country, and was come to dispose of my skim-milk in town" with a volley of the like abuse; which I listened to with more pleasure than ever fond woman did to protestations of love from her darling minion: for, incapable as I was of receiving any addition to my perfect hatred and aversion to him, I looked on this railing, as my security against his renewing his most odious caress.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Ten leagues of wood, of marsh land and valleys; he is lord of the hill and the plain and is now carrying on a suit for his feudal rights against the Bishop of Noyon!”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

All his acquaintances turned to Littlefield when they desired to know the date of the battle of Saragossa, the definition of the word “sabotage,” the future of the German mark, the translation of “hinc illae lachrimae,” or the number of products of coal tar.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Criticism: Essays, by Carlyle; by R.L. Stevenson, in Familiar Studies; by Hazlitt, in Lectures on the English Poets; by Stopford Brooke, in Theology in the English Poets; by J. Forster, in Great Teachers.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

“Here he is lying on the sofa!
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The power of giving or withholding rain is ascribed to him, and he is lord of the winds, including the Harmattan, the dry, hot wind which blows from the interior.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The little cock did run as fast as he could to the spring, and said, "Stream, thou art to give me some water; the little hen is lying on the nut-hill, and she has swallowed a large nut, and is choking."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

And at these words the young girl fixed her imperious look on the Catalan, who, as if fascinated by it, came slowly towards Edmond, and offered him his hand.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He is lingering on the death-bed.
— from Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis by Leonard Bloomfield

The cry becomes re [Pg 59] proachful when she finds he is lying on the grass.
— from Mollentrave on Women: A comedy in three acts by Alfred Sutro

On the wide spaces of the downs he wandered luxuriously irresolute; his mind, when for a moment it goaded itself into an effort of concentration, faltered immediately, so that dead chivalries, gleaming down below in the rainy dusk of the valleys, suffered in the very instant of perception a transmutation into lamplit streets; and the wind's dull August booming made embattled drums and fanfares romantic no more than music heard in London on the way home from school.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie

The leaves are about an inch and a half in length, occasionally two and a half.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

Indeed, in the country one must constantly renew his intellectual life, or there is danger of giving way to drunkenness.
— from Waldfried: A Novel by Berthold Auerbach

One leg is thrown over the other, an open book turned with its face downward upon his lap, while his hands are folded upon it, and he is looking off toward the wood in deep abstraction of thought.
— from The Lost Trail by Edward Sylvester Ellis

He is lying on the grass at Monica's feet, and is playing idly with her huge white fan.
— from Rossmoyne by Duchess

Many a time have I looked on the most romantic scenery in the freshness of May, but never did I so deeply feel the pleasantness and beauty of the world as on that balmy evening, when the rays of the setting sun, glowing from the west, streamed over the grass and wheat-fields on their path, and poured in mellowe
— from Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger

It gives us some anxiety to feel that perhaps we may be following the bad example of the Chinese, who, fancying themselves alone great and worthy of respect, and despising foreigners as little better than beasts, have come to suffer defeats at their hands and to have it lorded over themselves by those foreigners.
— from The Constitutional Development of Japan 1853-1881 Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Ninth Series by T. (Toyokichi) Iyenaga