We climbed ladders and had to cross narrow ledges on the edge of the abysses, and it was altogether most interesting to learn the different sounds the rock with ore in it made when hammered on, to the earth rock.
— from Elizabeth Visits America by Elinor Glyn

"This remarkable book is here offered to the English reader in an unusually good translation ...
— from On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa by Albert Schweitzer

The grasshoppers sang, the wind swept through the grass and swung the harebells, the "drowsy hum" of the threshing engine rose up from the plain; the low slumberous melody of harvest time floated in the air.
— from The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies

"Right shamefaced was Saladin when the horse returned," for he knew that some would suspect him of trying to entrap Richard.
— from With Spurs of Gold: Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds by Dolly Williams Kirk

The lights in full jet hang over ten thousand evening repasts—the parents at either end of the table, the children between.
— from The Abominations of Modern Society by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

there rose up above the sands, at the foot of the hills of Thebes, the exultant Ramesseum.
— from The Spell of Egypt by Robert Hichens

Walton, take him over to the examination room.
— from Fighting in Cuban Waters; Or, Under Schley on the Brooklyn by Edward Stratemeyer

As a matter of fact, I fancy he does not at all like sitting in the sun waiting, so often beguiles the time by sitting in the coffee-house situated on the banks of the river; and then, having allowed an hour or two to elapse, returns empty-handed, saying: “There are no fish in the river to-day.”
— from Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith