Where the lines of print at last left off running into each other, I know, however, perfectly well.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Went to chapel and heard a little musique, and there met with Creed, and with him a little while walking, and to Wilkinson’s for me to drink, being troubled with winde, and at noon to Sir Philip Warwicke’s to dinner, where abundance of company come in unexpectedly; and here I saw one pretty piece of household stuff, as the company increaseth, to put a larger leaf upon an oval table.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"What a quiet life it is the family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in such a nice home for his sister and parents.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

But in the time of Abd-er-Rahmān III ., or perhaps a little later, when a great minister added a new faubourg, it was at its best.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

On his return he finds it necessary to write his future wife and to her father—and to pen a legible letter to the latter gives him far more trouble than winning a battle against the Austrians, if not assisted by General Danube.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

But at Leipzig I found a letter in which he begged me to wait patiently a little longer for his final verdict.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

I possessed a little library of works, all suitable to the present emergency, all calculated to arouse, convince, prepare, enlighten, and fortify my aunt.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Two strongholds of slavery; but in the first, deliverance possible, a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Her heavy eye-lids are half clos’d, Her cheeks are pale and livid like the dead, Down hang her loose arms lifelessly, Down hangs her languid head.
— from The Curse of Kehama, Volume 1 (of 2) by Robert Southey

Sc. 2) we have a graphic picture of a distressed army followed by ravens on the look-out for corpses:— “Yond island carrions , desperate of their bones, Ill-favour’dly become the morning field: Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose, And our air shakes them passing scornfully.
— from The Ornithology of Shakespeare Critically examined, explained and illustrated by James Edmund Harting

"She put on her bonnet and opened the parlour door; but then she saw the square figure of the landlord standing at the open house door, smoking his evening pipe, and looming large and distinct against the dark air and landscape beyond.
— from Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations by Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) Macquoid

Practically the entire first page was given up to proclamations, and looked like a miniature hoarding hidden under miniature posters.
— from War's Brighter Side The Story of The Friend Newspaper Edited by the Correspondents with Lord Roberts's Forces, March-April, 1900 by Julian Ralph

Protect a lordless lady!
— from The Kādambarī of Bāṇa by Bāṇa‏

Then with her mind still thoroughly unawakened, her heart began suddenly to pitch and lurch like a frightened horse whose rider has not even remotely sensed as yet the approach of an unwonted footfall.
— from The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

The characters display about the same qualities; Blacius is made perhaps a trifle more reasonable and Poluvius a little less so.
— from Humanistic Studies of the University of Kansas, Vol. 1 by Pearl Hogrefe

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— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency