And her rosy cheeks, her sweet, naïve, radiant smile, were to be seen now at the office window, now in the refreshment bar or behind the scenes of the theatre.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“He will not return,” said the sailor, shaking his head.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

“Sirs, there is no remedy,” said Merlin, “and God’s will must be done; but be ye all to-morrow before him, for God will make him speak before he die.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Those abject wretches—' 'Don't call names, Rokesmith,' said Mr Boffin. '—That exemplary brother and sister—lived and died in the foulest and filthiest degradation.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

"'In the next room,' said Millarca, 'there is a window that looks upon the hall door.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

In many other places there are springs and rivers and lakes which are necessarily rendered salt because they run through salt pits.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

“I added no such name,” replied Sobakevitch, and straightway joined the other guests.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Nor lack there men to govern them, when blown By blustering winds — from islands not remote — Sardinia or Corsica, of every rate, Pilot and patron, mariner and mate.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

Had the Duke—for any purpose short of disguise—made his appearance with a long cloak, a buff jerkin, a fustian doublet, and neither gloves nor rings, she would almost have thought the world was coming to an end.
— from Red and White: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses by Emily Sarah Holt

as the rate at which royalties are to be calculated, but no royalties shall be payable in respect of contrivances sold before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirteen, if contrivances reproducing the same work had been lawfully made, or placed on sale, within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten: ( c )
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

"Shall we pass into the next room, sire?" said Saint-Aignan, opening the door to let his guests precede him.
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

Then, as Mr. Jeminy made no reply, she added, "She's six, going on seven."
— from Autumn by Robert Nathan

The young men had now ran some distance, when they looked back.
— from The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Women's ideals are not readily shaken, and Miss Silvester has some big ones, which are permanent.
— from Swords Reluctant by Max Pemberton

TOUT notre raisonnement se reduit a ceder au sentiment.*—PASCAL.
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

A second's consideration showed that in the search that must ensue this would afford no refuge, so I at once opened the sash, and endeavoured to ascertain at what height I was above the ground beneath me; the night was so dark that I could see nothing, but judging from the leaves and twigs that reached to the window, that it was a garden beneath, and auguring from the perfumed smell of the shrubs, that they could not be tall trees, I resolved to leap, a resolve I had little time to come to, for the step of the soldiers was already heard upon the stair.
— from The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 4 by Charles James Lever