Then she reminded the Queen of her agreement, and led her back to the camp, and next morning she went back to her kingdom, but before she had gone very far she began to repent of her bargain, and when the King came out to meet her she looked so sad that he guessed that something had happened, and asked what was the matter.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The tower is left solitary save the fish-caves at its base.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

All progress, as we are aware, depends on the joint process of integration and differentiation; synthesis, analysis, and then a larger synthesis seem to form the law of development.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Dear was he to our Lord, But it might not be hidden from him That his angel began To be presumptuous, Raised himself against his Master, Sought speech of hate, Words of pride towards him, Would not serve God, Said that his body was Light and beauteous, Fair and bright of hue: He might not find in his mind That he would God In subjection, His Lord, serve: Seemed to himself That he a power and force Had greater Than the holy God Could have [ 123 ] Of adherents.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The latter sin, sad to say, was begun by listening to his father cursing some obstinate kettle which refused to be tinkered, and it was perfected in the Parliamentary army.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

'Look, Skipper see these yellow boys, The source and fount of human joys; With them you grasp the dear delights Of festive days and glorious nights.'
— from A Golfing Idyll; Or, The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Violet Flint

Ælius Verus at his death left an only son Lucius, who later was adopted by Antoninus Pius, and later still shared the imperial purple with the famous philosopher-emperor, Marcus Aurelius.
— from Italian Prisons St. Angelo; the Piombi; the Vicaria; Prisons of the Roman Inquisition by Arthur Griffiths

It is a strange thing to say, but it must be noted, that with their habits of political shortsightedness, the popular armed resistance, even in the name of the Law, seemed sedition to them.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

" "A lover?" she stepped toward him, her eyes blazing, her cheeks aflame.
— from Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West by Randall Parrish

The date of the first building of St. Mary Woolnoth of the Nativity, in Lombard Street, seems to be very doubtful; nor does Stow help us to the origin of the name.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 19: Psalms by Anonymous

Few people who have lived in the world have left such slight traces.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton