Since then the appellation which I had thought to reserve to the horizons and landscapes of a merely realistic dream-country, has become more and more popular as a practical definition; and the dream-country has, by degrees, solidified into a utilitarian region which people can go to, take a house in, and write to the papers from.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The arms of Wareham afford an instance of fleurs-de-lis reversed, and the Corporate Seals of Liskeard and Tamworth merit reproduction, did space permit, from the designs of the fleurs-de-lis which there appear.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

“And that is the very thing that alarms me,” returned Dantès.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But will my Rosalind do so?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I heard, poured forth on the threshold, some fervid murmurings to "Marie, Reine du Ciel," some deep aspiration that his hope might yet be mine .
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

It is hence important not to be fooled about the effect, and that can be accomplished only through the observation of the witnesses’ gestures, these being much more rarely deceptive than words.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I kept my rage down and answered as steadily as possible, "Listen, you have engaged your word?"
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The work is perfect; and from its good state of preservation would seem to be of a more recent date
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

Now, Mr Richard, did the gentleman say anything else?’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

If only we might run down that hill!
— from The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole

Not only this, however, caused Margaret restless days and troubled nights: there were those children down in the mills—those little children, nine, ten, twelve years old.
— from The Turn of the Tide: The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Once I had my riding dream.
— from Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown

He seems to have been able to keep his agreements with them and at the same time to maintain rigid discipline and control.
— from The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado by Stewart Edward White

more radical deputies further inflamed public feeling by persisting in the discussion of the abolition of the nobility, and of a variety of other more or less impracticable and revolutionary projects.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

Vested with such powers as these, the Corporation of London are clearly competent to introduce whatever reforms circumstances may render desirable.
— from The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges by William Ferneley Allen

All labored night and day, and General Ewing got over on the 23d; but my rear division was cut off by the broken bridge at Brown's Ferry, and could not join me.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman