I then went up and dressed myself, as like a bride as I could, in my best clothes; and, on inquiry, hearing my dearest master was gone to walk in the garden, I went to find him out.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Expression is as necessary to me as leaf and blossoms are to the black branches of the trees that show themselves above the prison walls and are so restless in the wind.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

He stretched himself out under the bench, did not move a limb, and behaved as if he were stone dead.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

She then assumed as a permanent appellation, the pseudonym of Camille Maupin, and led a bright and independent life.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Be content, 'tis but a nine days' wonder, and as one sorrow drives out another, one passion another, one cloud another, one rumour is expelled by another; every day almost, come new news unto our ears, as how the sun was eclipsed, meteors seen in the air, monsters born, prodigies, how the Turks were overthrown in Persia, an earthquake in Helvetia, Calabria, Japan, or China, an inundation in Holland, a great plague in Constantinople, a fire at Prague, a dearth in Germany, such a man is made a lord, a bishop, another hanged, deposed, pressed to death, for some murder, treason, rape, theft, oppression, all which we do hear at first with a kind of admiration, detestation, consternation, but by and by they are buried in silence: thy father's dead, thy brother robbed, wife runs mad, neighbour hath killed himself; 'tis heavy, ghastly, fearful news at first, in every man's mouth, table talk; but after a while who speaks or thinks of it?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But he found his match at last, and before a full company.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Freshly infused tea was brought in, after which you thanked your host for the feast, and took your leave, being accompanied to the door of the house by the whole family, to whom you made as low a bow as possible before mounting your pony or entering your palanquin.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

The humanity of the man who had ever depicted the morbid, treacherous, worst-passioned natures was suddenly reflected in the light-hearted, innocent frolic of youth, music as light and babbling as a child's speech.
— from Verdi: Man and Musician His Biography with Especial Reference to His English Experiences by Frederick James Crowest

The giant made a lunge and broke away from us, heedless that Don might have shot him.
— from The White Invaders by Ray Cummings

"This," exclaimed Pizarro, when he heard the news, "is Almagro's return to me, after losing a beloved and gallant brother, and spending all I possess in pacifying the country.
— from The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2 by Thomas Cleland Dawson

He has been tried by a jury of his peers "—On another occasion, Mr. Paine was making a legal argument before an eminent judge, when he was interrupted by the latter, who said: "Mr. Paine, you know that that is not law."
— from The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various

The people of the village all said, "It could be none but the good-natured Dwarfs, who come by night tripping along with their feet covered with long mantles, as light as birds, and industriously perform for mankind their daily work.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley

For from hence not only magnanimity, and liberality, and beneficence, and fortitude, and providence, and the tutelary protection of all good arts, derive their food, and the growth of their organs, but continence, and self-denial, and labour, and vigilance, and frugality, and whatever else there is in which the mind shows itself above the appetite, are nowhere more in their proper element than in the provision and distribution of the public wealth.
— from Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke

These were developments of great significance, and the immense and growing strength of the British Fleet justified the French in concentrating their battle squadrons in the Mediterranean, and leaving at Brest and in the Channel only a division of cruisers, supported by flotillas.
— from The Achievement of the British Navy in the World-War by John Leyland

The dispute, she pretended, was merely a local affair between Austria and Serbia, in which no other Power had the right to intervene.
— from A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

Followed a babel of talk and laughter, in the midst of which Honor, who had moved a little apart, became aware that Desmond was at her side.
— from Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver