Nor did she leave this inspection entirely to Lizzie, but reciprocated it.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

It tasted so good to her—so very good, that the next day she longed for it three times as much as before.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

yon silver lamp, the moon, Which turns our midnight into perfect noon, Doth surely light thy towers, guarding well Where Dante sleeps, where Byron loved to dwell.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

He did not seem pleased at this time that I mentioned it, and said (somewhat sternly,) 'he would not have the lustre lighted the next day.' Some ladies, who had been present yesterday when I mentioned his birth-day, came to dinner to-day, and plagued him unintentionally, by wishing him joy.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

“Whether it is your own house or others’ it makes no difference so long as it is warm and the women don’t scold...” said Crutch, and he laughed.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Is she not down so late, or up so early?
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Nam diffusa solo latus explicat; ac subit auras Turribus in coelum nitentibus: incola claris Cor studiis acuit...
— 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

Having now destroyed so large a part of their forces by internecine slaughter, they thought that their strength was not equal to storming the palace, and consulted a sorceress named Gudrun.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

"There is such a yellow gentleman next door, Sara," Lottie whispered at the French class afterward.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

[1222] There can be no doubt, so Luther argues, that, among his followers in the town of Erfurt, there was indeed the true “Holy Catholic Church, the Bride of Christ,” for they possessed the true Word and the true Sacraments.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

arden-gate to meet me, no longer the perversely tempting, sorrowful, wisp of white mist drifting in the complicated bad dream of existence: Neither did she look like a forsaken elf.
— from Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad

Fidessa's face, And fair dame nature blushing to behold it; Now did she laugh, now wink, now smile apace, She took me by the hand and fast did hold it; Sweetly her sweet body did she lay down by me; "Alas, poor wretch," quoth she, "great is thy sorrow;
— from Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Smith, William, active 1596

Magic and poetry were not dead so long as a man could charm that soft diamond sheen from a girl’s eyes...
— from The Secret Victory by Stephen McKenna

Try as he would his eyes could pick up no dim shore line.
— from Burned Bridges by Bertrand W. Sinclair

As soon as she came home from school the next day she left the manse and made her way down the Glen.
— from Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Vigilantibus non dormientibus servit lex.
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 2 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

Not for nothing had she lain so still, not for nothing had such piercing moans come from her lips, not for nothing did she look so pale, and drawn, and suffering now.
— from Scamp and I: A Story of City By-Ways by L. T. Meade

That she had not done so long before seems due to accident more than anything else.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell