That, in fact, all I ask is, that she should say two or three sisterly words with sympathy, should not repulse me at first sight; should take me on trust and listen to what I say; should laugh at me if she likes, encourage me, say two words to me, only two words, even though we never meet again afterwards!...
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In Chinese and Japanese art this creature holds a prominent place, and in literature even more so.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

At 6:30 Ned Land entered my stateroom.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

The indiscreet eyes of scholars will never perceive anything in these things, however much learned energy may still have to be expended in the service of this excavation—; even the noble zeal of such friends of antiquity as Goethe and Winckelmann, seems to savour somewhat of bad form and of arrogance, precisely in this respect.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Li estas maljuna sinjoro, he is an old (aged) gentleman .
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

"A lesson to teach them all to go and do likewise, eh, Marlboro'?" said St. George, passing, with Miss Humphreys on his arm.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

A hot coop enervated a chicken and made it too lazy to lay eggs, Millington said, but this regulator he was having made would keep the heat at an even temperature, summer and winter, and render the hens bright and cheerful and inclined to do their best.
— from The Adventures of a Suburbanite by Ellis Parker Butler

my longing eyes might see The green island that lies smiling on the bosom of the sea; That is fed with heaven's dew and the fatness of the earth, Fanned by wild Atlantic breezes that sweep over it in mirth.
— from Verses and Rhymes By the Way by Norah

Yes, He surely had a great and loving heart, capable of taking in everybody; for Cecile's stepmother, though she was not very nice, had smiled when that little story of the poor girl on the doorstep had been told to her; had smiled and seemed comforted, and had repeated the words, "Jesus loves even me," softly over to herself when she was dying.
— from The Children's Pilgrimage by L. T. Meade

However, the audience, which was growing larger every minute, seemed to find the bellowing enjoyable and applauded loudly.
— from Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Joseph Crosby Lincoln