People are so kind; they seem really to think I do them a favour in letting them make me rich, and giving me good bargains.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

she cried, after a pause, and still keeping the same look-out.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Gikuháag bayinti písus ang swildu kay gitantan sa útang, Twenty pesos was deducted from the salary to pay off part of the debt.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I pressed a silent kiss on the lips of the Muses, and they seemed to stir and move.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I'm a 'love,' if you please, and she kisses me, and wants me to go with her everywhere, and call her by her Christian name."
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

There are painful associations connected with Grassdale, which she cannot easily overcome; and I shall not molest you with my company or interference here: I am a very quiet person, and shall keep my own apartments, and attend to my own concerns, and only see you now and then.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

So saying, he gathered together, and brought to a flame, the decaying brands which lay scattered on the ample hearth; took from the larger board a mess of pottage and seethed kid, placed it upon the small table at which he had himself supped, and, without waiting the Jew's thanks, went to the other side of the hall;—whether from unwillingness to hold more close communication with the object of his benevolence, or from a wish to draw near to the upper end of the table, seemed uncertain.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Daling panítan ang sambag kugal, It’s easy to peel ripe tamarinds when the skin is separated from the flesh.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It is wonderful how long they will endure left undisturbed and pressed in this way; the paper they used in old books seems to have been softer, without the hard surface of our present paper, more like blotting paper, and so keeps them better.
— from Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies

Chapman's Peak and Slang Kop Point from Hout Bay 99 18.
— from The Cape Peninsula: Pen and Colour Sketches by Réné Hansard

Courtiers have a marvelous instinct in scenting the turn of events; courtiers possess a supreme kind of science; they are diplomatists in throwing light upon the unraveling of complicated intrigues, captains in divining the issue of battles, and physicians in curing the sick.
— from The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

Her heart began to throb painfully, and she knew that a treacherous colour had risen to her checks.
— from The Odd Women by George Gissing

Now rival parishes, and shrievedoms, keep, On upland lochs, the long-expected tryst To play their yearly bonspiel.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Maximof employed an agent to do the dirty work of the estate; he rarely came personally in contact with his people and scarcely knew the names of any of them.
— from Moscow: A Story of the French Invasion of 1812 by Frederick Whishaw

"The impersonal verb termination -awan, -uan, etc., is sometimes written with the participial and subjunctive k " ( ka or gh. ) (Gerard.)
— from Footprints of the Red Men Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them. by Edward Manning Ruttenber

A merry laugh broke from the princess as she kissed her friend.
— from The Hot Swamp by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

All these effects of decomposition, we know, are apt to arise in coarse, obese bodies, and accompany both natural and unnatural deaths; indeed, if we look strictly at the matter, putting on one side the preservative effects of certain metallic poisons, it may be laid down that generally the corpses of those dying from poison are less apt to decompose rapidly than those dying from disease—this for the simple reason that a majority of diseases cause changes in the fluids and tissues, which render putrefactive changes more active, while, as a rule, those who take poison are suddenly killed, with their fluids and tissues fairly healthy.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth