and there were heaps of books in three languages, to say nothing of Russian, which he had read and thrown away, in the corners of my room and under my bed.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But nobody else should C meddle with anything of the kind; and although the rulers have this privilege, for a private man to lie to them in return is to be deemed a more heinous fault than for the patient or the pupil of a gymnasium not to speak the truth about his own bodily illnesses to the physician or to the trainer, or for a sailor not to tell the captain what is happening about the ship and the rest of the crew, and how things are going with himself or his fellow sailors.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Barely a few sparse floes, some moving icebergs; a sea stretching into the distance; hosts of birds in the air and myriads of fish under the waters, which varied from intense blue to olive green depending on the depth.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

How of Barnstable , in the County of Devon.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Into the oldest and cleanest-looking house of business in the square, he led the way.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

That the largest balls thus discharged would not only destroy whole ranks of an army at once, but batter the strongest walls to the ground, sink down ships with a thousand men in each to the bottom of the sea; and, when linked together by a chain, would cut through masts and rigging, divide hundreds of bodies in the middle, and lay all waste before them.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

Now the man destitute of self-control desires either all pleasant things indiscriminately or those which are specially pleasant, and he is impelled by his desire to choose these things in preference to all others; and this involves pain, not only when he misses the attainment of his objects but, in the very desiring them, since all desire is accompanied by pain.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

All her nice books are mine; she offered to give me them, and her pretty birds, and her pony Minny, if I would get the key of our room, and let her out; but I told her she had nothing to give, they were all, all mine.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

He also desired to find out whether Colwyn's presence at the moat-house meant that Phil had succeeded in impressing him with his own belief in the innocence of Hazel Rath.
— from The Hand in the Dark by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

No event that followed affected it, though the day after they had taken their passage on the Norumbia he heard that she had once been in the worst sort of storm in the month of August.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete by William Dean Howells

Here and there, where light streamed out through open doors, the forest men stooped in groups, packing for departure all wares not previously bound around their heads or bestowed in their stomachs.
— from The Vinland Champions by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz

It is likely that Abe was reconciled to his situation in this family by the presence of his sister, and the opportunity it gave him of being in the company of Mrs. Crawford, for whom he had a genuine attachment; for she was nothing that her husband was, and every thing that he was not.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Shape and sound were wedded together in early days by the first beginners of writing, and all the labour bestowed on them since has only been in the way of modification and adaptation to changed circumstances.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

Musingly, I said: "That which has occurred before in this journey to the unknown country of which I have been advised, seemed mysterious; but each succeeding step discovers to me another novelty that is more mysterious, with unlooked-for phenomena that are more obscure."
— from Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

The supremacy that had once been in the hands of the Northumbrians now passed away to the kings of Mercia, the largest and most central of the English kingdoms.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

The $15,000,000,000, he explained, was in addition to the large sums that would be carried in the Fortifications Appropriation bill, which covers the cost of heavy ordnance both in the United States and overseas.
— from Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times by Various

On the day named, he occupied by invitation the pulpit of Dr. T. H. Clelland at the Court-House.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 04, April 1879 by Various

dear as Mary had once been, in the golden time when my portrait was first painted? Mary!
— from The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins