Their number continued to increase more and more; and by the time Gerda had finished her prayers, a whole legion stood round her.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

It was a groan—a groan of a man in pain, as was lyin' somewhere hid among the bushes.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

All disciplines furnish examples of the fact that things for a long time had probable validity, later indubitable validity; that again some things were considered proved and were later shown to be incorrect, and that many things at one time wobbly are in various places, and even among particular persons, supposed to be at the limits of probability and proof.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Some of them were all over as white as swans, others as black as crows, many as grey as owls, others black and white like magpies, some all red like red-birds, and others purple and white like some pigeons.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The traveler has no provisions and would like something[5] nourishing.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

It was not a bountiful producer, and with labor scarce and unreliable, its cultivation was expensive.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The same scheme had saved Sher Shah in this country from Maldeo, and has more recently been put in practice, and with like success, in the war with Sivaji.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

I bought a small leather satchel with a lock and key, in which I placed a white linen shirt, a pair of worsted stockings, a razor and a prayer-book.
— from Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery by George Borrow

3 It was perhaps a week later she told me: "This, beyond any reasonable doubt, is the Forest of Arden."
— from The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

The laws of the place are written large, so that all may read them; and we know that every road, whether it be my trodden path or some byway through your gayer meadows, yet leads in the end to God.
— from Chivalry: Dizain des Reines by James Branch Cabell

This was Don Juan's earliest scrape; but whether I shall proceed with his adventures is Dependent on the public altogether; We 'll see, however, what they say to this: Their favour in an author's cap 's a feather, And no great mischief 's done by their caprice; And if their approbation we experience, Perhaps they 'll have some more about a year hence.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

With the coldest of farewells, and with a certain worn expression on her beauty that gave it, though scarcely yet in its prime, a wasted look, she left the room.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Hitherto the law, which consisted essentially of customs and precedents, and was largely sacral in character, had been known only to the magistrates and to the priests, that is to members of the patrician order.
— from A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur E. R. (Arthur Edward Romilly) Boak

With scornful insolence he dropped his guard and pecked at a twig or a grass blade, jerking the unconsidered morsel aside and presenting his point again with lightning swiftness.
— from The Secret Trails by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir