Mr. Pocket took me into the house and showed me my room: which was a pleasant one, and so furnished as that I could use it with comfort for my own private sitting-room.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I resolved, therefore, to quit the house, mentioned it to her, and she, far from opposing my resolution, approved it.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

These petty sovereigns revered the power or virtue of the Carlovingian monarch, implored the honor and support of his alliance, and styled him their common parent, the sole and supreme emperor of the West.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Green boughs and saplings, mingled in their haste, And smoking torches, on the ships they cast.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Tim Linkinwater, sir, where is my brother Ned?’ ‘Gone out with Mr. Trimmers, about getting that unfortunate man into the hospital, and sending a nurse to his children,’ said Tim.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The ground was hard, the air was still, my road was lonely; I walked fast till I got warm, and then I walked slowly to enjoy and analyse the species of pleasure brooding for me in the hour and situation.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

With the addition of some separate and nameless columns, such were the remains of the ancient city; for the marks of a more recent structure might be detected in the walls, which formed a circumference of ten miles, included three hundred and seventy-nine turrets, and opened into the country by thirteen gates.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Now the little trembling hare, which the dread of all her numerous enemies, and chiefly of that cunning, cruel, carnivorous animal, man, had confined all the day to her lurking-place, sports wantonly o'er the lawns; now on some hollow tree the owl, shrill chorister of the night, hoots forth notes which might charm the ears of some modern connoisseurs in music; now, in the imagination of the half-drunk clown, as he staggers through the churchyard, or rather charnelyard, to his home, fear paints the bloody hobgoblin; now thieves and ruffians are awake, and honest watchmen fast asleep; in plain English, it was now midnight; and the company at the inn, as well those who have been already mentioned in this history, as some others who arrived in the evening, were all in bed.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The varieties in the fitting-up of the rooms, where the common necessaries provided by the owner, in the common indifferent plight, were contrasted with some few articles of a rare species of wood, excellently worked up, and with something curious and valuable from all the distant countries Captain Harville had visited, were more than amusing to Anne; connected as it all was with his profession, the fruit of its labours, the effect of its influence on his habits, the picture of repose and domestic happiness it presented, made it to her a something more, or less, than gratification.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

But instantly, upon her making the request, it came into my thought, 'that I was in a manner a stranger to every body in the house: not so much as a servant I could call my own, or of whom I had any great opinion: that there were four men of free manners in the house, avowed supporters of Mr. Lovelace in matters of offence; himself a man of enterprise; all, as far as I knew, (and as I had reason to think by their noisy mirth after I left them,) drinking deeply: that Miss Partington herself is not so bashful a person as she was represented to me to be: that officious pains were taken to give me a good opinion of her: and that Mrs. Sinclair made a greater parade in prefacing the request, than such a request needed.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson

Part of the time we were not segregated from the colored prisoners, a group of whom were moved into the hospital and shared with us the one bathroom and toilet.
— from The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore

No, my beloved one sits by my side, and I guess not her thoughts, and my mind is to her a sealed fountain.
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

But the expected romance did not materialise,—there came apparently a gradual "cooling off" in the sentiments of both parties concerned,—and though Roger Seaton was still occasionally seen with Morgana in her automobile, in her opera-box, or at her receptions, his appearances were fewer, and other men, in fact many other men, were more openly encouraged and flattered,—Morgana herself showing as much indifference towards him as she had at first shown interest.
— from The Secret Power by Marie Corelli

Where we stand reigned Nero,—here were his tessellated floors; here, “Mighty in the heaven, a second heaven,” hung the vault of his ivory roofs; here, arch upon arch, pillar on pillar, glittered to the world the golden palace of its master,—the Golden House of Nero.
— from Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The mother is telling her adopted son about the death of her real son:— "Den Morgen, da ban led sin skrækkelige Dom, Endnu var det neppe daget— Traadte Slutteren ind og sagde: 'Kom!
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany by Georg Brandes

cries he, and it was no longer in a whisper; "there's men in the hills, and Seth Barker whistling fit to crack his lips.
— from The House Under the Sea: A Romance by Max Pemberton

At last there seemed to be more movement in the house and she could hear voices; then she heard somebody sobbing, and the light in the upper room went quickly out.
— from Betty Leicester: A Story For Girls by Sarah Orne Jewett