Thus was the first Day Eev’n and Morn: Nor past uncelebrated, nor unsung By the Celestial Quires, when Orient Light Exhaling first from Darkness they beheld; Birth-day of Heav’n and Earth; with joy and shout The hollow Universal Orb they fill’d, And touch’t thir Golden Harps, & hymning prais’d God and his works, Creatour him they sung, Both when first Eevning was, and when first Morn.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Thus was the first day even and morn: Nor past uncelebrated, nor unsung By the celestial quires, when orient light Exhaling first from darkness they beheld; Birth-day of Heaven and Earth; with joy and shout The hollow universal orb they filled, And touched their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works; Creator him they sung, Both when first evening was, and when first morn.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

He drove the rebels from their rifle-pits in front of the lines, extending from Fort Pringle, and pushed them vigorously.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

To the little town of Lambton, the scene of Mrs. Gardiner's former residence, and where she had lately learned that some acquaintance still remained, they bent their steps, after having seen all the principal wonders of the country; and within five miles of Lambton, Elizabeth found from her aunt, that Pemberley was situated.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I look in with loving eyes, For folded here, with well-known care, A goodly gathering lies, The record of a peaceful life— Gifts to gentle child and girl, A bridal gown, lines to a wife, A tiny shoe, a baby curl.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

By thus exaggerating to his own mind the anticipated ill-fortune of the next day, to which he had condemned himself by promising Mercédès to spare her son, the count at last exclaimed: “Folly, folly, folly!—to carry generosity so far as to put myself up as a mark for that young man to aim at.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Meanwhile, the hermano mayor distributed candles [ 230 ] with such zeal that many of the participants returned to their homes with light enough for four nights of card-playing.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Citizens of Noo ’Leans without the leas’ ’espec’ faw fawmeh polly-tickle diff’ence.
— from Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable

He cut them out at night, and intended to set to work the next morning with fresh spirit; but that was not to be, for when he got up they were already finished, and a customer even was not lacking, who gave him so much money that he was able to buy leather enough for four new pairs.
— from Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

On resigning that position he and L. E. Frost founded the Berkshire World, a stock paper which is now published in Chicago.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

A man has to feel Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, for they are not in the nature of facts.
— from G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West

Rose gazed at it with longing eyes, for, from a few remarks that had fallen from Mulford, she suspected he had hopes of escaping among its channels and coral.
— from Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef by James Fenimore Cooper

If this statement is to be relied on, Tyre must have been still uncaptured, when the time came for its sister capital to make that last effort for freedom in which it perished.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4: Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

I ask you, did love ever find fabric soft enough, or nice enough, or pretty enough, for " the baby "?
— from Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women, and Things. by Fanny Fern