It was not the house in which Goethe was born, nor the old Council House, through whose grated windows peered the horns of the oxen that were roasted and given to the people when the emperors were crowned.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

But I staid vexed in my closet till by and by my cozen Thomas Pepys, of Hatcham, come to see me, and he up to my closet, and there sat talking an hour or two of the sad state of the times, whereof we did talk very freely, and he thinks nothing but a union of religious interests will ever settle us; and I do think that, and the Parliament’s taking the whole management of things into their hands, and severe inquisitions into our miscarriages; will help us.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She followed him on tiptoe out to the car.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

She put her hand in his hard dry one, and he stuck the tomahawk in his belt and held out the other to Rags.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

He owned two or three farms, and about thirty slaves.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

The young man availed himself of this order to quit the apartment; and, as the day was fast coming to a close, he hastened without delay, to make the necessary arrangements.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

In this way, a woman may be impregnated by her own totem or that of her husband, though residing in a different totemic district.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

His one thought of the incident was that the lieutenant was a peculiar creature to feel interested in such matters upon this occasion.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

And now his harping on this one tense chord The villa and the palace, palace this And villa the other, all day and all night Creaked like the implacable cicala's cry And made one's ear-drum ache: naught else would serve But that, to light his mother's visage up With second youth, hope, gayety again, He must find straightway, woo and haply win And bear away triumphant back, some wife.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Since the Master has changed his mind, I suppose we need stay here no longer; but in the first place I beg leave to tell him——” “Tell him anything you will,” said Craigengelt, “if you will first allow me to state the inconveniences to which he will expose himself by quitting our society, to remind him of the obstacles to his remaining here, and of the difficulties attending his proper introduction at Versailles and Saint Germains without the countenance of those who have established useful connexions.”
— from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

It is the prevailing stratum in all the country between the Arkansa and Red rivers, from the confluence of the Mamelle westward; rising to the height of two or three thousand feet, to form the summits of the Cavaniol, Sugar Loaf, and
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 4 by Thomas Say

[291] Finally, so safe had been this great trust in his hands, and so efficiently had he borne himself, in all the labors and responsibilities of his high office, that, on the 29th of May, the House of Delegates, by resolution, unanimously elected him as governor for a third term,—an act in which, on the same day, the Senate voted its concurrence.
— from Patrick Henry by Moses Coit Tyler

But that the sign-engraver meant by his hawk, Immortality, and by her pedestal, the House or Tavern of Truth, is of little importance now to the passing traveler, not yet preparing to take the sarcophagus for his place of rest.
— from Ariadne Florentina: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin

He related to them how on two occasions the Wanyamwesi had tried to carry Chawendé's town by assault, but had been repulsed both times.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by David Livingstone

The promontory, which rose abruptly to a height of two or three hundred feet from the sea, presented a jagged wall full of nooks and crevices glazed with frozen snow on the windward side, but black and partly bare to leeward.
— from The Modern Vikings: Stories of Life and Sport in the Norseland by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

He came on, and gracefully bowed to each, was permitted to take the hands of two or three, and greeted with a little chorus of—"You have come back!"
— from Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by A. G. (Albert Gallatin) Riddle

But the engineer among us calmly reminded me of an interesting aneroid observation I had once taken of the top of Moss Ghyll on Scawfell, making it a hundred feet higher than Scawfell itself.
— from Rock-climbing in the English Lake District Third Edition by Owen Glynne Jones

He spent most of his time, however, on top of the pile, where he watched the water and the clouds.
— from The Big Brother: A Story of Indian War by George Cary Eggleston