He knew, from the diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the earth road.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The apathy of the people about reform that Earl Russell thought he perceived, as far as London was concerned, at once disappeared.
— from The Grand Old Man Or, the Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook

“Mine prickles all round, too,” Elfrida reminded him, “and it’s lower, and you get bigger as you go down, so it prickles more of me than yours does you.”
— from The House of Arden: A Story for Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Walafrid Strabo praised Charles, son of Louis the Pious, and Radbert, the Empress Richgard.
— from The Medieval Latin Hymn by Ruth Ellis Messenger

So he arranged that he should remain four years with a well-to-do farmer of his acquaintance in Herefordshire, and learn farming; at the end of that time, he should go to Australia, and try his fortune there, where so many were filling their pockets and returning to England rich men.
— from Wilton School; or, Harry Campbell's Revenge by F. E. (Frederic Edward) Weatherly

The traits of the secondary Vistulian race appear especially among the Poles of Prussia and Russia; the Eastern race is most marked in the White Russians, but is also met with among the Great Russians, the Mazours, and the Wends; the Adriatic race characterises the Serbo-Croats, as well as certain Czechs and Ruthenians; the sub-Adriatic race is well represented by a section of the Czechs, while numerous elements of the Western race are met with among the Slovaks, the Little Russians, and certain Great Russians.
— from The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker

Don’t despise me when I say that in some things I am more a woman than a man—and when my heart is touched strongly I lavish more love upon the one who does so than I have perhaps any right to expect returned; and then I have so few friends that when I do find one I am ever jealous of his or her absence.
— from William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir Compiled by His Wife Elizabeth A. Sharp by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Amelia) Sharp

It is probable that I shall visit our Australian settlements; glance at the islands of the Pacific; and return to Europe round Cape Horn.
— from The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Rajah of Sarawak James

Again, the portion of the building that directly faces you as you enter the court from St. Germain is the oldest part , and represents the early Renaissance spirit.
— from Paris Grant Allen's Historical Guides by Grant Allen