We had been recommended to a boarding-house in Sullivan Street, and thither we drove.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

CV Let not my love be call'd idolatry, Nor my beloved as an idol show, Since all alike my songs and praises be To one, of one, still such, and ever so.
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

“You have not been in the Caucasus long, I should say?” “About a year,” I answered.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

The trees were dark in color, and mournful in form and attitude, wreathing themselves into sad, solemn, and spectral shapes that conveyed ideas of mortal sorrow and untimely death.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

The salt with which these herrings are cured is sometimes Scotch, and sometimes foreign salt; both which are delivered, free of all excise duty, to the fish-curers.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I shall strike across Halsell Common, and see the gleams on the wet grass.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

And I considered whether, if it should signify any one of these meanings, which was so very likely, could I quite answer for myself?
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

It is rather of that character of ignorance—if so strong a word is justifiable—that is found here in the persistent misspelling of the great explorer's name and the bodies of water which have transmitted it to posterity so well, although the authority—really the absolute demand, if correctness is desired—for the change from Behring to Bering has been well known to exist for a number of years, and is now adopted in even our best elementary geographies.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

it drew me on, it hastened me, and so strong was the flood of gladness within me, that I stood still at last and with questioning eyes looked round me, as I would seek some outer cause of my mood of rapture....
— from The Jew and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

During the first few days, we had some difficulty in accustoming ourselves to the sight of women with their shoulders exposed as if they were going to a ball, their arms bare, their feet encased in satin shoes, and their fan in their hand, walking about alone in a public thoroughfare, for it is not the custom to offer your arm to a lady unless you are her husband or some near relation; you content yourself with merely walking by her side, at least as long as it is light, for after nightfall, this practice is not so rigorously observed, especially with foreigners who are not used to it.
— from Wanderings in Spain by Théophile Gautier

Brutus immediately led forth the cavalry equipped in splendid style, and he brought up the infantry with equal expedition.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

"I feel," he said, "the hand of death rapidly approaching, and bitterly doth it now weigh upon my soul, that I have in some sort aided the enemies of my country in raising that dreadful tempest which sooner or later must now fall upon the land."
— from William Shakespeare as He Lived: An Historical Tale by Henry Curling

“I expect there was always plenty of driftwood thrown up, and a poor failin' patch of spruces covered all the north side of the island, so she always had something to burn.
— from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

I liked it very much—it is so simple, and we have seen so many allegorical groups and gods and goddesses lately that it was rather a relief to see anything quite plain and intelligible.
— from Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Mary King Waddington

They are as firm in their places as continents, myriads of them only a few feet out of water; and when the sun as it sinks sends a flood of gold and red light athwart them, they turn all colors, and glow on the water like great smoke crystals with fire shining through.
— from Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Hunt Jackson

I shall stay a little time in London, to see if any thing new will present itself.
— from Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Hill Burton

"Well, your honour," replied the pilot; "I cannot risk my life, or my men, or even you in such a voyage, in so small a ship, at this time of year.
— from Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

"At first those were very interesting; but we have seen enough of them." "I supposed so," added Lord Tremlyn.
— from Across India; Or, Live Boys in the Far East by Oliver Optic