In the door there was a golden key, and when she turned it the door sprang open, and there sat an old lady spinning away very busily.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

In the trances of this medium, I cannot resist the conviction that knowledge appears which she has never gained by the ordinary waking use of her eyes and ears and wits.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

‘Dear mother,’ he said kindly, ‘don’t you see that if there were really any serious inclination on the part of Mr. Frank towards Kate, and we suffered ourselves for a moment to encourage it, we should be acting a most dishonourable and ungrateful part?
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

He saw Kate, and was struck with her natural elegance.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

If he means to keep a whole skin on his bones, I recommend him not to come back in a hurry.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The servant, however, thought he intended by that to say, "That is the first thief," and as he actually was so, he was terrified, and said to his comrade outside, "The doctor knows all: we shall fare ill, he said I was the first."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

I never knew a woman so dote upon a man: surely I think you have charms, la!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Provisions were purchased at Kholby, and, while Sir Francis and Mr. Fogg took the howdahs on either side, Passepartout got astride the saddle-cloth between them.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Why, I know a whole sackful of tricks!"
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

When she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly through the glass and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery, and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

She wanted to know all about Kingscourt, and what shooting they had had.
— from The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by William Black

"There is good picking among the vessels of that nation, as the great European belligerents well know; and while so many are profiting by it, we may as well come in for our share."
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper

Killanmarg, A wide sloping marg above Gulmarg, just above the pine forest on the slopes of Apharwat. Kilta, Creel made of the pliant withes of the Wych Hazel, Parrotia Jacquemontiana (Chob-i-poh).
— from A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne

Bessie let the book slide thanklessly to the bottom of her little “kist,” and was sadly at a loss what to do with the moss, which however, was finally thrust into the same repository.
— from Merkland; or, Self Sacrifice by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The latter standard was so called, it is said, because its standard had been kept at Winchester since the time of King Edgar; it was, by 22 Chas.
— from Men and Measures by Edward Nicholson

But Arthur and his knights, as we see them in the earliest French romances, have little in common with their Celtic prototypes, as we dimly catch sight of them in Irish, Welsh, and Breton legend.
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

King Arthur was said to have been a native of Lyonesse.
— from School Reading by Grades: Sixth Year by James Baldwin

They fix bunches of palm leaves to their heads, shoulders, and knees, and wear square bucklers, which they ornament with considerable taste.
— from The World of Waters Or, A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea by Osborne, David, Mrs. (Fanny)

The general certainly was very much astonished by the communications made to him the other evening by the gipsy girl: he kept a wary silence towards us on the subject, and affected to treat it lightly; but I have noticed that he has since redoubled his attentions to Lady Lillycraft and her dogs.
— from Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving

He knelt, and with solemnity took the oath, repeating each word after her in an audible tone.
— from Captain Kyd; or, The Wizard of the Sea. Vol. II by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham