How do you like this: The long white trail is calling—calling—and it's over the hills and far away for every man or woman that has red blood in his veins and on his lips the ancient song of the buccaneers.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Coggan was on his back, with his mouth open, huzzing forth snores, as were several others; the united breathings of the horizonal assemblage forming a subdued roar like London from a distance.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

But while she was resolved to say an affectionate farewell to Philip, how she looked forward to that evening walk in the still, fleckered shade of the hollows, away from all that was harsh and unlovely; to the affectionate, admiring looks that would meet her; to the sense of comradeship that childish memories would give to wiser, older talk; to the certainty that Philip would care to hear everything she said, which no one else cared for!
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

In the words of the Church Ritual: “If any one of the monks depart in the Lord, the monk designated (that is, whose office it is) shall wipe the body with warm water, making first the sign of the cross with a sponge on the forehead of the deceased, on the breast, on the hands and feet and on the knees, and that is enough.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the midst of the public triumph, Constantinople was protected by a strong enclosure of new and more extensive walls; the same vigilant care was applied to restore the fortifications of the Illyrian cities; and a plan was judiciously conceived, which, in the space of seven years, would have secured the command of the Danube, by establishing on that river a perpetual fleet of two hundred and fifty armed vessels.
— 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

The officers should feel the conviction that resignation, bravery, and faithful attention to duty are virtues without which no glory is possible, no army is respectable, and that firmness amid reverses is more honorable than enthusiasm in success,—since courage alone is necessary to storm a position, while it requires heroism to make a difficult retreat before a victorious and enterprising enemy, always opposing to him a firm and unbroken front.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Everybody declared that there never had been such a perfect day or such a jolly set to enjoy it, and everyone gave themselves up to the simple pleasures of the hour as freely as if there were no such things as care or sorrow in the world.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Nay, I've observed him, at your public ordinary, Take his advertisement from a traveller A conceal'd statesman, in a trencher of meat; And instantly, before the meal was done, Convey an answer in a tooth-pick.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

Each bottle is made from an entire goat-skin, from which only the head and feet are removed.
— from The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Israel Abrahams

Grasp it about the middle and lift up so that only the head and feet are touching the ground.
— from Backwoods Surgery & Medicine by Charles Stuart Moody

One of the horses, a fine animal, was then exerting itself to the utmost; for the roads were very bad at the time, and the hill was therefore very difficult of ascent.
— from The Life and Letters of the Rev. George Mortimer, M.A. Rector of Thornhill, in the Diocese of Toronto, Canada West by John Armstrong

The toucan let them approach quite close, and then made a sudden dive at them with his wings down, rose in the air right over their heads and flew away with a loud chuckling kind of noise that sounded like a laugh.
— from The Enchanted Island by Fannie Louise Apjohn

Off, then; home as fast as possible!
— from Sketch-Book of the North by George Eyre-Todd

The second kind of knowledge of the habit arises from a careful inquiry, as is explained above of the mind (A. 1).
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

I didn't say a word more, so I went out of the house as fast as I could."
— from The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat

and playing ‘Over the hills and far away?’
— from Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Low down the hillside five forts, connected by a wall and covered way, protected its whole eastern front from the edge of the heights as far as the sea.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

Although she had for a while opposed the happiness and fortune awaiting her two eldest girls, she yielded to those private considerations which husband and wife confide to each other when their heads are resting on the same pillow.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac