He only answered with a kiss, and pressed her still closer to his bosom.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

A vertical section of this kennel, as Phoebus had so justly styled it, would have made a triangle.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

This insulated condition, sustained by a consciousness of wealth, knowledge, and power, had served to produce a decided peculiarity of manners, and even of appearance.
— from Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper

To upset a Turtle on the shore, one is obliged to fall on his knees, and placing his shoulder behind her fore-arm, gradually raise her up by pushing with great force, and then with a jerk throw her over.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2 (of 2) by John James Audubon

Suppose the king, if there was one, and the priest, if there was one—and I presume there was a priest, because it was a very ignorant age—suppose this king and priest had said: "That tom-tom is the most beautiful instrument of music of which any man can conceive; that is the kind of music they have in heaven; an angel sitting upon the edge of a fleecy cloud, golden in the setting sun, playing upon that tom-tom, became so enraptured, so entranced with her own music, that in a kind of ecstasy she dropped it—that is how we obtained it; and any man who says that it can be improved by putting a back and front to it, and four strings, and a bridge, and getting a bow of hair with rosin, is a blaspheming wretch, and shall die the death,"—I ask you, what effect would that have had upon music?
— from The Ghosts, and Other Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

Meleager, kindling with rage at the wrong done to himself, and still more at the insult offered to her whom he loved, forgot the claims of kindred, and plunged his sword into the offenders' hearts.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

To that end the Holy Bible had been written and the Church founded, and to that end Keble and Pusey had sought to rouse the Church from its indolence and indifference.
— from Round the Corner Being the Life and Death of Francis Christopher Folyat, Bachelor of Divinity, and Father of a Large Family by Gilbert Cannan

"I no longer know any parties," he said.
— from And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919 by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

he inquired, pulling her down on his knee and patting her shoulder.
— from Polly's First Year at Boarding School by Dorothy Whitehill

The kits are packed, horses saddled, waggons inspanned, and coffee drunk in twenty minutes to half an hour (considerably less if there is an alarm) from the time the men are roused, whether in the dark or not.
— from Our Cavalry by Michael Frederic Rimington

The tinker heard it all, and wondered in his mind How gentlefolks could be so very good and kind; And promised her she should next Sabbath go again, But wished that she would now her former words explain.
— from The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Thomas Cowherd

Emperors, kings, and princes, he says, would yet have to take up the sword against the rage and plague of the Romanists.
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin