But Alexander crossed the river Lycus 421 and pitched his camp there, to give his men and horses a little rest; while Parmenio seized the Persian camp with their baggage, elephants, and camels.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

The mad folly that the world calls love had never had any part in my madness, and here at least extremes met, and the vice of heartlessness became the virtue of constancy.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

He made another hole a little to one side and lower down, in a shaded place beside her chair, from which it was easy and safe to survey her by looking horizontally.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

One day he said, a little hesitatingly, and with somewhat of diffidence— 'Triangle, would you mind coming down to my stateroom a minute, and have a little talk on a certain matter?'
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

The Rochester Express, which stood nobly by her through this ordeal, said editorially: Miss Anthony had a loftier end in view than the making of a sensation when she registered her name and cast her vote.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The Professor charged up and down the green aisles like a stout Teutonic knight, with a pole for a lance, leading on the boys, who made a hook and ladder company of themselves, and performed wonders in the way of ground and lofty tumbling.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Mrs. Allan has a lovely smile; she has such exquisite dimples in her cheeks.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

She was very musical, and had a lovely voice; my brother had patronised her and helped her to a debut at his theatre, which test she stood brilliantly.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

I suspected something from what you told me, and had a look at one or two; they were simply disgraceful.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

He filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last sent Dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his receipt, he left at the end of November, without taking leave of any of his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in Poland.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Miss Arundel had at length succeeded in her great object.
— from Lothair by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Then one sings the call of the dead man for help: Oh ransom me, buy me, my friends to-day, 'Tis a costly ransom you'll have to pay, Oh ransom me, father, whate'er they demand, Though they take all your money and houses and land.
— from The Women of the Arabs by Henry Harris Jessup

My dear Friend ,—I found on my arrival here a letter from Geneva, dated the last spring, which announced to me the death of my grandfather, which has happened more than one year ago, and which was followed a short time after by that of my aunt,—his only daughter.
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

Enough, therefore, that we rode on (for Stickles had found me a horse at last) as far as Wells, where we slept that night; and being joined in the morning by several troopers and orderlies, we made a slow but safe journey to London, by way of Bath and Reading.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

After that Grey spent some portion of every summer at the farm-house growing more and more fond of his Aunt Hannah, notwithstanding her quiet manner and the severe plainness of her personal appearance so different from his mother and his Aunt Lucy Grey.
— from Bessie's Fortune: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

These people inhabit the mountains of Atlas, north of the city of Marocco, and have a language peculiar to themselves.
— from An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Shabeeny, Abd Salam, active 1820

He must be feeling how horribly degrading was the position of Claud—inheriting that land; and of Richard, who, just because he had served in the Indian Civil Service, had got to live on a pension all the rest of his days; and of Willie, who was in danger at any moment, if his health—always delicate—gave out, of having a sinecure found for him by his college friends; and of Alan, whose educated charm had enabled him to marry an heiress and live by managing her estates.
— from Studies and Essays: The Inn of Tranquility, and Others by John Galsworthy

Later he marries and has a legitimate son, whom we leave as, at about eighteen, he is taking his first step along the road trodden by his father.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

Since our Persons are not of our own Making, when they are such as appear Defective or Uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable Fortitude to dare to be Ugly; at least to keep our selves from being abashed with a Consciousness of Imperfections which we cannot help, and in which there is no Guilt.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

" Nothing but an indistinguishable murmur answered him, a low growl that was neither argument nor evasion.
— from Then I'll Come Back to You by Larry Evans