In the spring of 1852, Yule made an interesting little semi-professional tour in company with a brother officer, his accomplished friend, Major R. B. Smith.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Then have they mischief and ill luck, said Grangousier; which was very true.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Above me, as I lay, shone the eternal stars, and there at my feet the impish marsh-born balls of fire rolled this way and that, vapour-tossed and earth-desiring, and methought that in the two I saw a type and image of what man is, and what perchance man may one day be, if the living Force who ordained him and them should so ordain this also.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

I hurriedly gave Betteredge my address in London, so that he might write to me, if necessary; promising, on my side, to inform him of any news which I might have to communicate.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

One man spoke to me, and I literally shook with fear as I hastened on.
— from Sacred and Profane Love: A Novel in Three Episodes by Arnold Bennett

I read in the paper of one woman who lost forty pounds in three months, and is losing still!"
— from Stories That End Well by Octave Thanet

Even the application of graving on metal in Etruria solely to the toilet mirror, and in Latium solely to the toilet casket, indicates the diversity of the art-impulses that affected the two lands.
— from The History of Rome, Book II From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy by Theodor Mommsen

The interior has been badly modernised, and is less striking.
— from Naples, Past and Present by Arthur H. (Arthur Hamilton) Norway