Hedges too must be woven and all beasts Barred entrance, chiefly while the leaf is young And witless of disaster; for therewith, Beside harsh winters and o'erpowering sun, Wild buffaloes and pestering goats for ay Besport them, sheep and heifers glut their greed.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

The thought of Dinah's pale grave face and mild grey eyes, which the sight of the gown and cap brought with it, made it a laughable surprise enough to see them replaced by Hetty's round rosy cheeks and coquettish dark eyes.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

I spoke him in return as handsomely as I was able; but all the while I was wondering what would come next, and why he had parted with his precious guineas; for as to the reason he had given, a baby would have refused it.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

This happened in the days when the so-called "gun-boat" policy was no longer in favour, and poor Gibson fell a victim to his excess of zeal.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

In the County Board, without which Not one stone would have been placed on another, And the contributions out of my own pocket To build the temple, are but memories among the people, Gradually fading away, and soon to descend With them to this oblivion where I lie?
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

The pitiful groans from all sides and the torturing pain in his thigh, stomach, and back distracted him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The procession gathered few adherents on the way.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

If an auctioneer in the most perfect good faith, and in the regular course of his business, sells goods sent to his rooms for the purpose of being sold, he may be compelled to pay their full value if a third person turns out to be the owner, although he has paid over the proceeds, and has no means of obtaining indemnity.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

She was holding now in her hand a bundle of notes, by means of which various poor people, her protégés, had procured goods from a grocer's shop.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But nothing could have been more remarkable than the resolute determination of these young men to push grim facts away.
— from The Prelude to Adventure by Hugh Walpole

Such a glorious chase he gave us, and more than once we almost took a toss as the ponies groped for a foothold in the maze of ant bear holes.
— from Two Dianas in Somaliland: The Record of a Shooting Trip by Agnes Herbert

A good plot, good friends, and full of expectation: an excellent plot, very good friends ."
— from The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

They tested out pretty good for a half-hour, then we tried them on in there.
— from We Didn't Do Anything Wrong, Hardly by Roger Kuykendall

"You'll probably lose her," the colonel persisted, gnawing fiercely at his moustache.
— from The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

She seemed to take this question in ethics with the most perfect good faith and all the seriousness in the world.
— from Lady William by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

They're to be paying guests, for a month at least.
— from Lady Connie by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

[Pg 118] Murat, bedizened in gold-lace and furs; and Demetrius, the City-Taker, who made himself up like a French Marquise —were all pretty good fellows at fighting.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

We have seen a lovely Ravenna pine, grown from a cone picked up in the celebrated forest of Ravenna; every other shrub of its kind perished from the effects of the climate, while this solitary one throve well, and filled a considerable space in the garden.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

It will be then always summer, always sunshine, always pleasant, green, fruitful, and beautiful to the sons of God. '
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan