Nobody else need know: you could go with me to Mr. Grower and just let me speak to 'ee before him as if we were on such terms.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The three boys with their tutor, Abbe Martin, were on her right and the three girls, with Miss Smith, their English governess, were on her left.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"Do get up," she murmured at length, "and give me something to eat."
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I gave her another ten louis, begging her to buy some furniture, and to get me something to eat by the time I came next day.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"I wonder what that crowd near the pigsty means!" said the emperor, who had just come out on his balcony.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Play Old country airs with plaintive rhythm recurring, Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear home-voices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smoke-wreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets, Their music strikes the ear like Gascon patois!. . .
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Where the spirit of duty and self-sacrifice is low the troops are unready and inefficient; where, as in Prussia, these qualities, by the training of a whole century, have become instinctive, troops really are ready to the last button, and might be poured down upon any one of her neighbours with such rapidity that the very first collision must suffice to ensure ultimate success—a success by no means certain if the enemy, whoever he may be, is allowed breathing-time in which to set his house in order.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Lady Barmouth was in great trouble, and resembled more strongly than ever the heaving billows.
— from Lady Maude's Mania by George Manville Fenn

[111] Saboly's music has a "go" and a melodic quality suggestive of the work of Sir Arthur Sullivan; but it has a more tender, a fresher, a purer note, even more sparkle, than ever Sullivan has achieved.
— from The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

He had first a little journey to make to bring back Lucy from that temporary and reluctant separation from the district which propriety had made needful; but, in the mean time, Mr Wentworth trode with firm foot the streets of his parish, secure that no parson nor priest should tithe or toll in his dominions, and a great deal more sure than even Mr Morgan had been, that henceforth no unauthorised evangelisation should take place in any portion of his territory.
— from The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Still motives evidently act in a different way from stimuli; for the action of the former may be very brief, nay, need only be momentary; since their efficacy, unlike that of stimuli, stands in no relation whatever to the duration of that action, to the proximity of the object, &c. &
— from On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Taking into consideration the enhanced value of money since that epoch, these 972 francs would represent to-day 7,000 francs.
— from Veronese by François Crastre

In parsing, the learner may supply the ellipsis.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

All must spend the evening together.
— from That Stick by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Let Moran see thine eyes.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 362, March 21, 1829 by Various

With which compare these lines in The Gardener's Daughter : "Yet might I tell of meetings, of farewells,— Of that which came between, more sweet than each, In whispers, like the whispers of the leaves That tremble round a nightingale— in sighs Which perfect Joy, perplexed for utterance, Stole from her sister Sorrow ."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various