The two children loved each other so dearly that they always walked about hand in hand whenever they went out together, and when Snow-white said, “We will never desert each other,” Rose-red answered: “No, not as long as we live”; and the mother added: “Whatever one gets she shall share with the other.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

And long afterwards, at painful moments of his life, he recalled among other pangs of remorse all the circumstances of that waking, and that earthenware basin, and the china jug filled with cold water in which there were still floating icicles, and the oval cake of soap at fifteen kopecks, in pink paper with letters embossed on it, evidently bought for the bridal pair though it fell to Ivan Ilyitch to use it, and the old lady with the linen towel over her left shoulder.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

t-h-t! of the rifle-balls, I see the shells exploding leaving small white clouds, I hear the great shells shrieking as they pass, The grape like the hum and whirr of wind through the trees, (tumultuous now the contest rages,) All the scenes at the batteries rise in detail before me again, The crashing and smoking, the pride of the men in their pieces, The chief-gunner ranges and sights his piece and selects a fuse of the right time, After firing I see him lean aside and look eagerly off to note the effect; Elsewhere I hear the cry of a regiment charging, (the young colonel leads himself this time with brandish'd sword,) I see the gaps cut by the enemy's volleys, (quickly fill'd up, no delay,) I breathe the suffocating smoke, then the flat clouds hover low concealing all; Now a strange lull for a few seconds, not a shot fired on either side, Then resumed the chaos louder than ever, with eager calls and orders of officers, While from some distant part of the field the wind wafts to my ears a shout of applause, (some special success,)
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Acting upon the impulse of this passion, he (the savage) began to hit himself severe thumps in the chest, and to exhibit other indications of being desperately in love, which being rather a prosy proceeding, was very likely the cause of the maiden’s falling asleep; whether it was or no, asleep she did fall, sound as a church, on a sloping bank, and the savage perceiving it, leant his left ear on his left hand, and nodded sideways, to intimate to all whom it might concern that she was asleep, and no shamming.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

[ Five in the last edition of Priscus.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Have you forgot the last evening of our being together at Barton?
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

"The payment of a subsidy, which had excited the indignation of the Romans, ought not (such was the language of Stilicho) to be considered in the odious light, either of a tribute, or of a ransom, extorted by the menaces of a Barbarian enemy.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

47 The Juniper-Tree It is now long ago, quite two thousand years, since there was a rich man who had a beautiful and pious wife, and they loved each other dearly.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

20 Wentworth, Lady Henrietta Maria, account of, x, 337 Whig and Tory, origin of the names of, ix, 208 Whigs, epistle to the, ib. 417 Whip and Key, account of, ib. 425 White, John, account of, x, 257 White-boys, what meant by, vii, 257 Whitmore, Lady, epitaph on, xi, 150 Wif of Bathes Tale, by Chaucer, xii, lxxxii Wife of Bath, a tale, xi, 377 remarks on, ib.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden

A gallery for sleeping was built at the lower end of the room.
— from Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure by C. R. (Claude Reignier) Conder

But having no time for any other diversions than might be found on his rustic homestead, he grew up behind the plow horse, tramping in the dark, stony pasture land, eking out his meager existence from the black fields of Pennsylvania.
— from The White Feather Hex by Don Peterson

Our camp to-night is beside a little hillside torrent on the lower edge of Point Pleasant.
— from Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Reuben Gold Thwaites

By each , or some equivalent term, in English, Dutch, [Pg 48] and the Scandinavian languages— each other, English; elkander , Dutch; hver andre, Icelandic, Danish, Swedish.
— from Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

L. ex out + tonare to thunder, but perhaps influenced by E. stun.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

These words were spoken with the last effort of his voice, and scarce were they uttered ere the speaker was no more.
— from The Abbot by Walter Scott

Two who loved each other were separated by the fault of the man; the charm of some joro, perhaps, having been the temptation to faithlessness.
— from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn

My dear Julia, you have done extremely well; I am sorry Anna Maria has effected nothing; but I never saw Lord Ennismore offer you any attention—how did it all come about?"
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 1 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

She foresaw, however, that as they were an agricultural and shifting people, and spread over a large extent of territory, she would require to be constantly travelling, and to sleep as often in her hammock as in her bed.
— from Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary by W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone