“But, my dear child, the time is drawing near; here is April, and June, or say even July, is very near, with such business to accomplish before us.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Can they had changed all the wealth that he had bestowed upon them into this mass of rubies, emeralds, and other jewels, being well aware of the impossibility of carrying with them so great an amount in gold over a journey of such extreme length and difficulty.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

XXI China and bronze the tables weight, Amber on pipes from Stamboul glows, And, joy of souls effeminate, Phials of crystal scents enclose.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Jane Osborne scarcely ever met a man under sixty, and almost the only bachelor who appeared in their society was Mr. Smirk, the celebrated ladies' doctor.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The spot was charming, and Lily was not insensible to the charm, or to the fact that her presence enhanced it; but she was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company, and the combination of a handsome girl and a romantic scene struck her as too good to be wasted.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

A good job, or snack easily got: also shellfish growing at the bottoms of ships; a bird of the goose kind; an instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the noses of vicious horses whilst shoeing; a nick name for spectacles, and also for the gratuity given to grooms by the buyers and sellers of horses.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Success is jealous of scattered energies.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Then suddenly another sound became audible—a very gentle, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping continually from a kettle.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

His teeth were chattering, and he did not know if it were jealousy or something else.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“You see,” she continued, in a faint and lady-like voice, like the last dying breath of an Arabian jessamine, or something equally ethereal, “you see, Cousin Ophelia, I don’t often speak of myself.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The journal of Sister Eliza thus opens this episode of her life: "On the 26th of October, 1872, I started on the mission to Palestine.
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

For when he came before Emma, the Judge of Souls, Emma said to him: 'Living, thou madest no image of me.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series by Lafcadio Hearn

That's just one small example.
— from Anything You Can Do ... by Randall Garrett

He hears in passing "Joybells of some exuberant town at play.
— from Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson

The first difficulties, which were brought on by the employés of the company taking possession of the engines and trains, were, so far as I could judge, or saw, exclusively by those who had been railroad employés up to that point.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

Of course, whenever he came he always brought something delightful in his pockets for the children--perhaps a little man, who would roll his eyes and make bows and scrapes, most comic to behold; or a box, out of which a little bird would jump; or something else of the kind.
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann