The next morning, very early, Romeo went to Friar Laurence, a priest, and, telling him all the story, begged him to marry him to Juliet without delay.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And I have seen the Park, and the paleass of Saint Gimses, and the king’s and the queen’s magisterial pursing, and the sweet young princes, and the hillyfents, and pye bald ass, and all the rest of the royal family.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Any one of us may remember that a witness who was ready with a prompt, and to him an indifferent reply, started thinking and gave an essentially different answer, even contradictory to his first, when the meaning and the effect of what he might say was made clear to him.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

[39] Not all Shakspere's great passages about the hand are tragic.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

Several times while they were putting away the horse Anne caught Priscilla looking at her in a furtive, puzzled way.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But, separated from Captain Grant at the moment when the ship struck upon the rocks, he had till then believed that the captain with all his crew had perished, and that he, Ayrton, was the sole survivor of the ‘Britannia.’
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Miss Anthony hastened to confer with Mrs. Hooker, who was a guest at the home of Senator Pomeroy, and to urge that they should be present at this hearing and learn what Mrs. Woodhull proposed to do.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Afterwards, when an "intern" at Hotel-Dieu, he remembered the good deeds of Bourgeat, nursed him as a devoted son, and, in the time of the Empire, established in honor of this simple man who professed religious sentiments a quarterly mass at Saint-Sulpice, at which he piously assisted, though himself an outspoken atheist.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Thus much also I have to say about this land, namely that it is occupied by four races and no more, so far as we know; and of these races two are natives of the soil and the other two not so; for the Libyans and the Ethiopians are natives, the one race dwelling in the Northern parts of Libya and the other in the Southern, while the Phenicians and the Hellenes are strangers.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Blake was profoundly influenced by his residence at Felpham in one respect; he became acquainted with opposition, and distinctly realised a power antagonistic to his aspirations.
— from William Blake, Painter and Poet by Richard Garnett

The pillow is placed at the head, and the old Mackinac blanket-bag is spread neatly over all, as a token of ownership and possession.
— from Woodcraft and Camping by George Washington Sears

The dancers donned buffalo skins, the head of the dancer being placed in the head of the skin so that the eyes looked out as the buffalo's had; the horns projected above the head, and the tail dragged on the ground.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

By these means the agricultural proletariate became at an early period so powerful as to have a material influence on the destinies of the community.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

But I can't see what either of those women would be doing prowling about the halls at two A. M." "Unless it was in connection with the murder," Zizi said, straightforwardly.
— from In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells

Hunger and a bad cold were easily treated, and maybe there was a spark of consolation in having a patient all to herself and her homoeopathic book.
— from The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

This doctrine, so contrary to common sense, and even to Whig principles, astonished the House, and still more astonished the country.
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

A prominent educator, who had given considerable attention to this subject, after spending an hour in my recitation room with a class of college seniors, indicated with perfect accuracy the habitual and excessive smokers, simply by noting the eye, manner, and complexion.
— from Practical Ethics by William De Witt Hyde

The portrait of Eleazer Swalmius—the so-called Burgomaster Six—is finely painted as to head and beard.
— from Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker