and I said, 'Yes, I've heerd tell on him, and I've heerd as he was a reg'lar swell, but affable and free-spoken' (for I heerd 'em tell on you, you know)," Luke added, parenthetically.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

M. Pro rege, lege, et grege —For king, law, and people.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

After kissing Liza at parting, and going out at the garden gate, Bugrov came upon Groholsky, who was standing at the gate waiting for him.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He would get into his carriage and drive off, but he knew that this thought had jumped in after him and had settled down upon his knee, like a pet animal which he might take everywhere, and would keep with him at the dinner-table, unobserved by his fellow-guests.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

From his palace in the suburbs he ruled the whole kingdom; letters and proclamations were issued in his name; he was prayed for from the pulpits and commemorated on the coinage; and he even wore robes of gold tissue woven with his name, such as kings only were wont to wear.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

He must be kept like a prisoner.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Heister, for instance, shows as a lithotomy knife a large knife, like a phlebotome in shape.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Káwang lang ang paghílak kay nahitabù na
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He may live, as Keats lived, a pure life; but his soul, like that of Plato's false astronomer, becomes more and more immersed in sense, until nothing which lacks an appeal to sense has interest for him.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

He kissed little Alice, put her down, and rose.
— from One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex by Alfred Ollivant

FREDERIC: A paradox? KING: (laughing) A paradox! RUTH: A most ingenious paradox!
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

His little knickerbockered legs and play-worn shoes protruded grotesquely from beneath a heap of bedding.
— from Fighting in Flanders by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

While speaking, the King lifted a panel, while the boy held a light, for the corridor has no windows, and showed me a two foot round hole.
— from The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty by Alexandre Dumas

The road, weary of going uphill on its knees, like a pilgrim, got suddenly upon its feet and we were on its back, with the Prince's chariot trailing after us.
— from My Friend the Chauffeur by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Enormous volumes of ash and pumice were poured out and myriads of lava bombs were scattered for miles, which in falling demolished houses and killed livestock and people.
— from Iceland: Horseback tours in saga land by W. S. C. (Waterman Spaulding Chapman) Russell

The King looked annoyed, possibly a little suspicious.
— from Sophy of Kravonia: A Novel by Anthony Hope

All over the country this explanation is supposed to satisfy those simple, honest people who know little about percentages but ask plain questions at Food Economy meetings.
— from The Fiddlers; Drink in the Witness Box by Arthur Mee