My friends find for me a place 563 in a college, where I teach as at home, and earn enough to make the way smooth for Franz and Emil.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Nor do I believe that we have any more foundation for the tales concerning them, than for the legends relative to Joseph of Arimathea and King Bruce which prevailed two centuries back in the sister island.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Such a dish would strongly resemble platters of “ fritures ” and “ fritto misto ” (mixed fried foods) esteemed in France and Italy.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Hast Thou, although present every where, cast away our misery far from Thee?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The waves of air of the proper length, propagated in accordance with correct mathematical formulas, flowed around all the inanimate things in the room, lapped against Mrs Verloc’s head as if it had been a head of stone.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

We remained there for a considerable number of days, and commenced to trade there and made firm friendship.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Neither, to say aught of Sir William Walworth, [175] the glory of their company, more than that he slew Jack Straw, which is a mere fable, for the said Straw was after overthrowing of the rebels, taken, and by judgment of the mayor beheaded; whose confession at the gallows is extant in my Annals , where also is set down the most valiant and praiseworthy act of William Walworth against the principal rebel Waltar Tighlar.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

“I defy your Eminence to prove it,” cried Treville, with his Gascon freedom and military frankness; “for one hour before, Monsieur Athos, who, I will confide it to your Majesty, is really a man of the highest quality, did me the honor after having dined with me to be conversing in the saloon of my hotel, with the Duc de la Tremouille and the Comte de Chalus, who happened to be there.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The reciprocal conjunction with the Lord which makes heaven in the human being is revealed by the Lord in these words in John: Abide in Me, and I in you; … he who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me ye can do nothing (15:4, 5, 7).
— from Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg

These were good reasons and motives for fear and anger; orthodox and sound enough.
— from A Young Man's Year by Anthony Hope

Follow me: follow; follow!”
— from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

Long before he reached the North the theory that he was a murderer fleeing from justice got started, and at some places a very careful watch was kept over him. Arrived at Nakvak, he went to the house of everyone's friend, George Ford.
— from A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

The tar dropped from the rigging, and none of us willingly touched any piece of metal for fear of burning our fingers.
— from In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

Michel threw the heavy mass furiously from him, and the dog, suffocated, almost dead, fell upon the ground with a dull, heavy sound.
— from Prince Zilah — Volume 2 by Jules Claretie

Above all were they solicitous that the missionaries should not carry out a design they had formed to leave them, and try to find a field more favorable for their labors.
— from Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons by Arabella M. Willson

Major Frazer followed, closing his field telescope as he descended.
— from Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Arthur Quiller-Couch

My face feels only a tiny portion of the atmosphere; but I go through continuous space and feel the air at every point, every instant.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller