All the children were at school, and while they were sitting on the forms and learning their lessons, it sat on its thin green stalk and learnt from the sun and from its surroundings how kind God is, and it rejoiced that the song of the little lark expressed so sweetly and distinctly its own feelings.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

To show his partiality to the subject, he once amused his readers with two columns on Slang and Sanscrit, from which the following is taken:— “The allegory which pervades the conversation of all Eastern nations is the foundation of Western Slang; and the increased number of students of the Oriental languages, especially since Sanscrit and Arabic have been made subjects for the Indian Civil Service examinations, may have contributed to supply the English language with a large portion of its new dialect.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The form cacepollus is met with in the Leges Ethelredi , see Schmid and Ducange.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

La Esmeralda smiled, sighed, and remained silent.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

And it was not long ago that he amused his readers with two columns on Slang and Sanscrit :— “The allegory which pervades the conversation of all Eastern nations,” remarked the philosophical Punch , “is the foundation of Western Slang; and the increased number of students of the Oriental languages, especially since Sanscrit and Arabic have been made subjects for the Indian Civil Service Examinations, may have contributed to supply the English language with a large portion of its new dialect.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

For Polixenes, With whom I am accus'd, I do confess I lov'd him as in honour he requir'd; With such a kind of love as might become A lady like me; with a love even such, So and no other, as yourself commanded; Which not to have done, I think had been in me Both disobedience and ingratitude To you and toward your friend; whose love had spoke, Ever since it could speak, from an infant, freely, That it was yours.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Then he said: “Well, you see, I’m a kind of a hard lot,—least everybody says so, and I don’t see nothing agin it—and sometimes I can’t sleep much, on account of thinking about it and sort of trying to strike out a new way of doing.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

At last, everything stood still again; and he saw himself in the glass.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

'This, too, was his favourite hour,' said she, as she gazed upon the long evening shadows, stretched athwart the landscape.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

[43] It is so near the river that materials for constructing the Monument can be conveyed to it from the river at but little expense; stone, sand, and lime, all of the best kind, can be brought to it by water from convenient distances; and marble of the most beautiful quality, obtained at a distance of only eleven miles from Baltimore, on the Susquehanna railroad, can be brought either on the railroad or in vessels.
— from History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington National Monument Society by Frederick L. (Frederick Loviad) Harvey

"Turn the leaders ever so slightly, and I'll try and keep the swing cattle in line."
— from Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

For me, I must write impromptu, or not at all; none of your conventional impromptus, toils of half-a-day, as little instantaneous as sundry patent lights; no working-up of laborious epigrams, sedulously sharpened antitheses, or scintillative trifles, diligently filed and polished; but the positive impromptu of longing to be an adept at shorthand-writing, by way of catching as they fly those swift-winged thoughts; not quick enough by half; most of those bright colours unfixed; most of those fair semi-notions unrecorded.
— from An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Mr. Beauchamp was under a good deal of concern at Sir Charles's engagements to leave England so soon after his arrival; and asked his father's leave to attend him.
— from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson

“Listen, Evey,” she said, almost solemnly, “and then never let us allude to this matter again.
— from Philippa by Mrs. Molesworth

"I don't know how you stand it, I should let 'em starve," said Andrew, his eyes travelling from her white forehead to her brown hands.
— from In Mr. Knox's Country by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville