Don Quixote was firmly persuaded that this was the Marquis of Mantua, his uncle, so the only answer he made was to go on with his ballad, in which he told the tale of his misfortune, and of the loves of the Emperor's son and his wife all exactly as the ballad sings it.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But Martha was so tearful and tender-spirited, and unlike her usual self, that I said as little as possible about myself, and endeavoured rather to comfort Martha under all the probable and possible misfortunes which came crowding upon her imagination.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Portia, who by her father's wish has been bound to the choice of a husband by lot, has so far escaped all her unfavored suitors through the fortunes of chance.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

And then he yielded him unto Sir Tristram.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Often elliptically: as, acūtī hominis, ut Siculī , TD.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

He had palmed a tale on the girl that some secret mystery—to be explained one day—prevented his marrying her just then; and so she had gone on, trusting patiently to him, until she trusted too far, and lost what none could ever give her back.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

From hence the low murmur of his pupils’ voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer’s day, like the hum of a beehive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command, or, peradventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.
— from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

In herds unsingled, scour the dusty plain, And a long chase in open view maintain.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

When at last the Mole woke up, much refreshed and in his usual spirits, the Rat said, "Now then!
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Take Oswald's case: he, unfortunately, seems to have few enough ideals as it is; but I can see that his father stands before him as an ideal.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

She put her unbridled steed to fullest speed, and flashed by the onlookers like unto some sweet meteor.
— from Sandburrs by Alfred Henry Lewis

Many and many a time, when he had come desponding and bemoaning himself on account of some contemptible bodily infirmity, the old Doctor had looked at him through his spectacles, listened patiently while he told his ailments, and then, in his large parental way, given him a few words of wholesome advice, and cheered him up so that he went off with a light heart, thinking that the heaven he was so much afraid of was not so very near, after all.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

With absolute fidelity he tells of the struggle he has undergone since the day he sent Golding to his death, and his reason for procrastinating in ending his life.
— from The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin A Political Novel of the Twentieth Century by Francis Alexandre Adams

Her friends had given her up, supposing that she had dragged herself away into the depths of the woods, and died of starvation, when one day she returned, cured of lameness, but thin as a virgin shadow.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 by Charles Dudley Warner

No better subject immediately presenting itself to mind, I remarked that we had just been talking of Edgar Allan Poe, and his unfinished story, "The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym"; and I spoke of Dirk Peters.
— from A Strange Discovery by Charles Romyn Dake