In her room, tucked away in a corner of the old Willard House, Elizabeth Willard lighted a lamp and put it on a dressing table that stood by the door.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

And when Pantagruel saw those giants approach very near unto him, he took Loupgarou by the two feet, and lift up his body like a pike in the air, wherewith, it being harnessed with anvils, he laid such heavy load amongst those giants armed with free-stone, that, striking them down as a mason doth little knobs of stones, there was not one of them that stood before him whom he threw not flat to the ground.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present in the port of London.”
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

XII Now the vice of being destitute of all Self-Control seems to be more truly voluntary than Cowardice, because pleasure is the cause of the former and pain of the latter, and pleasure is an object of choice, pain of avoidance.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Something in his face made Amy say quickly and warmly... "No, be yourself with me, Laurie, and part in the good old way.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

I took out Ada's letter and put it in his hand.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Next instant, with a loud shout of triumph he held up one splinter, in which a round, dark object was fixed like a plum in a pudding.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

No less large and powerful is their part, we may assure ourselves, in the lives and feelings of women.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

Then there was another fuss as to what was to be done with it, but Bubi’s mother, who, as we have said was a very wise Queen and 11 png 23 very loyal to old customs, settled that the King should write a very polite letter and put it with the tooth in an envelope under his pillow that night, which has always been the proper thing to do ever since the world began, and no one has ever known Perez the Mouse forget to come and fetch the tooth and leave a lovely present in its place.
— from Perez the Mouse by Luis Coloma

"Cryptic, positively cryptic!" murmured Sir Francis, as he folded up the letter and put it by.
— from The Treasure of Heaven: A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli

The Joys of a life of Play are inexpressible—it leads a Person into the politest company, actuates the Spirits with the sweetest Vicissitudes of Passions—hope and fear, Pleasure and Anxiety, running an eternal Round.
— from The Englishman from Paris by Arthur Murphy

If we do now set our minds to deprive Germany of these things in their fullness, it is in exactly the same spirit as that in which one might remove that legitimate and peaceful implement, a bread knife, from the hand of a homicidal maniac.
— from What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Silent here are lark and plover; In the cover Deep below the cushat best Loves his mate, and croons above her O’er their nest, Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover.
— from XXXII Ballades in Blue China [1885] by Andrew Lang

I had a great surprise when I looked at the barograph this morning as the needle had gone right off the paper at the bottom, and at first glance I thought we had struck a tropical depression of the first magnitude, which, flouting all the laws of meteorology, had somehow found its way to the English Channel; but the engineer explained to me that, as I have already stated, the low atmospheric pressure in the boat was due to the conning-tower hatch being shut down.
— from The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne by King-Hall, Stephen, Sir

The fundamental exhortation as to love to God is once more repeated; only here fear is joined with love and precedes it; but the necessity of love to God is expanded and dwelt upon, as at the beginning, with a zeal that never wearies.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Deuteronomy by Andrew Harper

of soda over the ordinary process of boiling, and by the subsequent washing, or rinsing, in the same continuous manner, without removing the material from the vessels, the normal structure of the fibre is in a great measure retained, waste is minimized, and thus, while being thoroughly cleansed and freed from extraneous matter, the strength and staple of the fibre are preserved; a considerable saving of fuel results from the heated liquors being used again and again, less steam being required, as also less water, while at the same time economy of both labour and power is effected over the ordinary system.
— from Bamboo, Considered as a Paper-making Material With remarks upon its cultivation and treatment. Supplemented by a consideration of the present position of the paper trade in relation to the supply of raw material. by Thomas Routledge

The more modern ones such as the Thinghüs , Government Building, the Safnahüs , Library, are pleasing in [65] architecture and solid in construction.
— from Iceland: Horseback tours in saga land by W. S. C. (Waterman Spaulding Chapman) Russell