Of their own motion these poets learned all the essential secrets of the dramatic art.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The preceding lines are the exact story of an event which was the topic of the day; for after a month or two poor Wilhelmina was unfortunate enough for people to take notice of her feelings.
— from On Love by Stendhal

This was addressed to a certain extent to me, as an Englishman, of course, but the glamour of his rich intonation enveloped those two beautiful women, mother and daughter, sitting there with their perfect parted lips and their extraordinarily seductive Slavonic eyes.
— from Captain Macedoine's Daughter by William McFee

The yearning cry of some bewildered bird Above an empty nest, and truant boys Along the river's shady margin heard— A harmony of noise— A melody of wrangling voices blent With liquid laughter, and with rippling calls Of piping lips and trilling echoes sent To mimic waterfalls.
— from Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems by James Whitcomb Riley

They are written in plain language and treat every subject in a practical way.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work by Mary Rogers Miller

On the evening of the second day of the attack, therefore, our troops held a line which ran approximately as follows: From our old front line east of Gonnelieu the right flank of our new positions lay along the eastern slopes of the Bonavis Ridge, passing east of Lateau Wood and striking the [354] Masnières-Beaurevoir line north of the Canal de l'Escaut at a point about half way between Crèvecoeur and Masnières.
— from Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various

Now tell me what I shall communicate unto Rāghava, and the highly powerful Lakshmana, and the energetic Sugriva, and all the assembled monkeys."
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume Two. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam by Valmiki

Philippe listened attentively to every sound; his heart panted and throbbed at the very suspicion of approaching terror and misfortune; but confident in his own strength, which was confirmed by the force of an overpoweringly resolute determination, he waited until some decisive circumstance should permit him to judge for himself.
— from The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

“Did such a pretty lady as this ever sit in your great chair?”
— from The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair Or, True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne