And looking up, he sees the clerk looking down at him and marking him as he passes a lamp.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

(Let us hope that fashion never comes back!)
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

But, while he was thus bewailing his unhappy mistake, he lifted up his eyes, and behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name of which was Beautiful, and it stood just by the highway side.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

let us have your company, if you go, as I suppose you do, to the Celestial City."
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

When Horatio calls his father 'a goodly king,' he answers, surely with an emphasis on 'man,' He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

At last I ran away myself, whenever I saw an emissary of the police approaching with some new intelligence; and lived a stealthy life until he was tried and ordered to be transported.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Levin untied his horse and rode home to his coffee.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But it is precisely at that time that the Beast will crawl up to us in full submission, and lick the soles of our feet, and sprinkle them with tears of blood and we shall sit upon the scarlet-colored Beast, and lifting up high the golden cup "full of abomination and filthiness," shall show written upon it the word "Mystery"!
— from The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Attached to her pension, from which, although it was regularly paid, she had not for a long time received the least advantage, my offers were lost upon her.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Matthews wriggled those faint lines upon his glistening forehead that served for eyebrows.
— from The Plow-Woman by Eleanor Gates

Van Tuiver said not a word, but I noted a strained look upon his face, and I thought the others seemed agitated also.
— from Sylvia's Marriage: A Novel by Upton Sinclair

He did not see me as I approached, but as I looked at him the thought came to me that he had suddenly grown old, and there was the anxious look upon his face—the same that I had seen when he had talked to me the first time.
— from My Monks of Vagabondia by Andress Floyd

With the knights of these days, for the most part, it is the damask, brocade, and rich stuffs they wear, that rustle as they go, not the chain mail of their armour; no knight now-a-days sleeps in the open field exposed to the inclemency of heaven, and in full panoply from head to foot; no one now takes a nap, as they call it, without drawing his feet out of the stirrups, and leaning upon his lance, as the knights-errant used to do; no one now, issuing from the wood, penetrates yonder mountains, and then treads the barren, lonely shore of the sea—mostly a tempestuous and stormy one—and finding on the beach a little bark without oars, sail, mast, or tackling of any kind, in the intrepidity of his heart flings himself into it and commits himself to the wrathful billows of the deep sea, that one moment lift him up to heaven and the next plunge him into the depths; and opposing his breast to the irresistible gale, finds himself, when he least expects it, three thousand leagues and more away from the place where he embarked; and leaping ashore in a remote and unknown land has adventures that deserve to be written, not on parchment, but on brass.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

let us hear the purple glens replying; Blow, bugle; answer, echoes—dying, dying, dying!
— from Graded Memory Selections by Various

The fine speeches which he lavished upon him, are as well known as his more substantial rewards.
— from Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

'THERE IS A HISTORY IN ALL MEN'S LIVES.' Upon his return to London, Churchill lost very little time before presenting himself in Cavendish Row.
— from A Strange World: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3) by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The groups which represent Izdubar, the Assyrian Hercules, strangling a lion under his arm, are as much as 19½ ft.
— from Manual of Oriental Antiquities by Ernest Babelon