To the north of Helsinburg the shores are steep and rocky; they lower to the south; and the distant spires of Lanscrona, Lund, and Malmoe are seen in the flat country.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Luganovitch looked at me and said: “‘Look here, come round to dinner with me.’
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The man has certainly gathered a whole budget of shrewd observations, but he brings them forth in such an ungracious manner as would be extremely disgusting, if it was not marked by that characteristic oddity which never fails to attract the attention—He and Mr Bramble discoursed, and even disputed, on different subjects in war, policy, the belles lettres, law, and metaphysics; and sometimes they were warmed into such altercation as seemed to threaten an abrupt dissolution of their society; but Mr Bramble set a guard over his own irascibility, the more vigilantly as the officer was his guest; and when, in spite of all his efforts, he began to wax warm, the other prudently cooled in the same proportion.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

and all in a chorus: "while we labor so, thou alone, free from contribution and labor, like a mistress art served by us all and the fruit of all our labors thou thyself alone dost enjoy."
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

But no—she mastered the rising irritation, leaned back in her chair, crossed her arms on her broad bosom, and with a smile of grim sarcasm on her thick lips, looked at me as steadily as ever.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

All the ladies laughed at me as she said this, and called me an unbaked roll left out in the cold—which never felt the fire.
— from Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

For ance 'at there cam the markis to the hoose—whan things warna freely sae scant aboot the place as they hae been sin' yer father cam to the throne—there cam at his back a fearsome storm, sic as comes but seldom in a life lang as mine, an' sic 'at his lordship cudna win awa'.
— from Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance by George MacDonald

I was, indeed, quite alive to the national evils of war, and I will not admit that any man-of-peace feels more sensitively than I do the fact that, in war, a nation’s best, youngest, and most hopeful blood is spilled, while its longest lives and most ardent spirits are ruthlessly, uselessly sacrificed—its budding youths, its strapping men, its freshest and most muscular, to say nothing of mental, manhood.
— from In the Track of the Troops by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The convent lay low, among meadows all shut in with fine elm trees, and the cows belonging to the sisters were being driven home, their bells tinkling.
— from Grisly Grisell; Or, The Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

"I love Lorenza as much as she loves me.
— from Balsamo, the Magician; or, The Memoirs of a Physician by Alexandre Dumas

He certainly did not look like a murderer, and several of the crowd, including Stephens, the game-warden, began to wonder if they had not been barking up the wrong tree.
— from Jim: The Story of a Backwoods Police Dog by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

She was a broad-backed young girl, and looked like a matron as she hurried along in the dusk.
— from Evelina's Garden by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

A little later, and monuments and statues will spring up all over.
— from Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland