" "Pray do not mention him in that light again, uncle," said Dorothea, feeling some of her late irritation revive.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

aquel momento eran subidas al furgón.—Se me había olvidado 15 llamarle a usted, Sr. de Rey.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Like an unseasonable stormy day Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores, As if the world were all dissolv'd to tears, So high above his limits swells the rage Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“He was gray, you remember, and had white teeth, and stood and looked at us....” “Sónya, do you remember?” asked Nicholas.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The listless glances of the few tailors and cobblers who, with suspended thread, now looked after us, seemed dazed—as if they could not believe in the reality of two early tourists.
— from In and out of Three Normandy Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd

It had been a grief to the gently generous wife that the man she loved must live always under so distressing an obligation to the friend who had so magnanimously forgiven.
— from A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs by George Cary Eggleston

Vain ladies and men of letters are usually so disposed.
— from The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney by Jean de La Fontaine

At a recent centennial celebration on the site of one of the most important forts in the entire West the old fortress was reconstructed with life-like accuracy under scholarly direction.
— from Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent by Archer Butler Hulbert

He said—‘You, my brother, to whom I forgave all your sins, you and the woman-snake that I cherished in my bosom, and your servant, the black-souled magician, her accomplice, have done me miserably to death, and set the Queen of both the Lands, Amen’s royal child, to starve in yonder tower with the noble lady Asti, until she dies or takes you to be her husband—you, her uncle, who seek her beauty and my throne.
— from Morning Star by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

But Sally—she could tell it, looking at us so demurely, With a woe-begone expression that no actress would despise; And if you'd never heard it, why you would imagine surely That you'd need your pocket-handkerchief to wipe your weeping eyes.
— from The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Kate Sanborn

"We'll have a look at un," suggested Dick, who hurried forward with the others at his heels.
— from Ungava Bob: A Winter's Tale by Dillon Wallace

Justices of the peace who must live wholly upon fees in regions where fees will not furnish a living, and United States deputy marshals appointed for political reasons, constitute a very feeble staff against law-breakers.
— from Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck