Often had I seen her standing at Graham's side, resting that volume on his knee, and reading to his tuition; and, when the lesson was over, begging, as a treat, that he would tell her all about the pictures.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

I believe I will think for a few minutes; so I will thank you, friend Tip, to get out your knife and rip this heavy crown from my forehead."
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

But, though everybody was kind and ready to help us, there was only one hand that could turn drudgery into pleasure.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

But Reynard was more than a match for his king, And replied that his cold being rather a bad one, He could not at present distinguish a thing [Pg 403] By its odour, or even assert that it had one.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

The lady was seated in a stiff, high-backed arm-chair, with a small round table, containing a desk and a work-basket on one side of her, and her little boy on the other, who stood leaning his elbow on her knee, and reading to her, with wonderful fluency, from a small volume that lay in her lap; while she rested her hand on his shoulder, and abstractedly played with the long, wavy curls that fell on his ivory neck.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Jacopo, seeing him fall, had believed him killed, and rushing towards him raised him up, and then attended to him with all the kindness of a devoted comrade.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I held his hand, and then he screamed and kicked and ran to his father, and told him that I was fighting him.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The boy, at this, jumped from Cudjoe’s knee, and running to her side put up his arms.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Damodar advanced the conquests of his nation page 174 p. 174 to the west, and, having subdued Kumau, all resistance to his force on the hills was in vain, and Mahadatta was soon deprived of all the hope of protection, that he might have had from the power of his son-in-law the regent, the young Raja of Gorkha having put his uncle to death.
— from An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Francis Hamilton

In life's mere minute, with power to use that proof, Leave knowledge and revert to how it sprung?
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

The answers were cold and insulting, asking France to take back her Bourbon kings and return to her old boundaries.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

The locks and keys are rusty; there has been so little doing; since 1789 every one has been going to hell.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England by Georg Brandes

But Richards knew, and raged, and the other miners knew, and rejoiced, that he had given the signal to hoist.
— from Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905 by Various

“The day after the morn,” continued the widow, “I’ll be ready with all that I ken, and ready to hear whatever you think for yourselves; think discreetly, and I’ll no’ oppose, and think soberly, without pride, for we’re at the foot of the brae.
— from The Laird of Norlaw; A Scottish Story by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Alas, why did you leave your fashionable friends and a world in which you are so fitted to shine, to bring unhappiness on an obscure household that never dreamed of courting your notice?" As she stood before him in her radiant anger, it went hard with Odo not to silence with a kiss a resentment that he guessed to be mainly directed against herself; but he controlled himself and said quietly: "Madam, I were a dolt not to perceive that I have had the misfortune to offend; but when or how, I swear to heaven
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

Mazarin, who, in my opinion, was in this matter the maddest of them all, interested the royal authority in favor of M. d'Épernon, when a wise minister might have made both parties answerable for what had passed, without prejudice to the king, and rather to his advantage....
— from The War of Women, Volume 1 by Alexandre Dumas

Forgetting that he had been a king, and remembering that he was a father, Louis XVI.
— from Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand