And on that evening when the sea tossed hither and thither and roared dully under the load of fog, and the whimsical wind in mournful astonishment gently stirred the sails of the ships; when the citizens meeting on the streets asked one another: “Is he dead?”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Then several yeomen came forward and spread cloths upon the green grass, and placed a royal feast; while others still broached barrels of sack and Malmsey and good stout ale, and set them in jars upon the cloth, with drinking horns about them.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Carrie was not by any means a gloomy soul.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

He offered me a good salary and this little blue card.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The socialist magazines, a great smattering of Tolstoi, and his own intense longing for a cause that would bring out whatever strength lay in him, had finally decided him to preach peace as a subjective ideal.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Rossignan was a fine man, a good soldier, fond of wine and women, and, though he was not learned, he knew the whole of Dante’s Divine Comedy by heart.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I delight, also, to follow in the wake of a pleasure-party of young men and girls strolling along the beach after an early supper at the Point.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The fire burns well; What need we keep a stirring of 't, and make A greater smother?
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

I had heard it spoken of by old men in my childhood as the name borne by a dazzling charlatan who had made a great sensation in London for a year or so, and had fled the country in the charge of a double murder within his own house—that of his mistress and his rival.
— from Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters An Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

“You have done me a great service,” said Tiny, with a second bow.
— from The Squirrel's Pilgrim's Progress A Book for Boys and Girls Setting Forth the Adventures of Tiny Red Squirrel and Chatty Chipmunk by J. D. (James Douglas) Williams

The man who spoke with this mighty voice was a terror to the others, for they fell away before him, and he was the biggest monster there—Carver Doone, whose name for many a generation shall be used to frighten unruly babes to bed.
— from Tales from the Telling-House by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

For that he had made many and great sacrifices, even to the mortgaging of the land he owned and which his forefathers had loved and cultivated.
— from Blackthorn Farm by Arthur Applin

If once beyond her boudoir's precincts in ye went, Your "fortune" was in a fair way "to swell A man" (as Giles says);
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Rothenstein wore my rosette and made a great sensation and I was congratulated by Whistler and Abbey and Pennell.
— from Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Richard Harding Davis

I thought we had made it up,—and yet you are still unforgiving. Give me a good scold, and be friends!"
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 04 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

And he was the more afraid, when he saw lying among the ice pack the wrecks of many a gallant ship; some with masts and yards all standing, some with the seamen frozen fast on board.
— from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley

Scarcely any of them maintain a gaseous state at ordinary temperatures.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer