A fortnight ago a penitent letter had come from Stepan Arkadyevitch to Dolly.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Craigdarroch led a light-arm'd core, Tropes, metaphors, and figures pour, Like Hecla streaming thunder: Glenriddel, skill'd in rusty coins, Blew up each Tory's dark designs, And bared the treason under.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Poor Lucy herself only survived, till we arrived at Dijon.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But this pre-eminence thou hast lost, brought down To dwell on even ground now with thy sons: Yet doubt not but in valley, and in plain, God is, as here; and will be found alike Present; and of his presence many a sign Still following thee, still compassing thee round With goodness and paternal love, his face Express, and of his steps the track divine.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

As a good many such accidents have occurred, the thing seemed probable enough.” H2 anchor A VENDETTA The widow of Paolo Saverini lived alone with her son in a poor little house on the outskirts of Bonifacio.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He tells me how the King was vexed the other day for having no paper laid him at the Council-table, as was usual; and Sir Richard Browne did tell his Majesty he would call the person whose work it was to provide it: who being come, did tell his Majesty that he was but a poor man, and was out L400 or L500 for it, which was as much as he is worth; and that he cannot provide it any longer without money, having not received a penny since the King’s coming in.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Suddenly she leaned her right hand on the parapet, lifted her right leg over the railing, then her left and threw herself into the canal.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(Mind, xi, 232-3.)—Finally, Prof. Lipps has, in his elaborate way (Grundtatsachen, 179-188), made mince-meat of the view that stage 3 involves either conscious perception or conscious will.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The recumbent figure, in passing, lay hardly as high as the half door.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

And so Pierre Lapierre had accompanied Chloe to the mouth of the Yellow Knife, selected the site for her school, and generously remained upon the ground to direct the erection of her buildings.
— from The Gun-Brand by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

But the fancy that Blair wanted, poor Logan had; and the man who too severely criticises his flowing and elegant paraphrases would do well to beware of the memories of his children.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

"Hit's quite a lark," said Mr. Punch, laughing heartily.
— from The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen

The mark admissus cum praecipua laude had only very rarely been given before.
— from Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Brandes

If a pupil is studying formulas, let the formulas of geometry be studied; if he is taking up ratio and proportion; let him do so for algebra and geometry at the same time; if he is solving quadratics, let him apply them at once to certain propositions concerning secants; and if he is proving that ( a + b ) 2 equals a 2 + 2 ab + b 2 , let him do so by algebra and by geometry simultaneously.
— from The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith

Let’s go fetch the porter, let him wake them up.”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

VI His Father's Friendship—His Sister's Death—The Silent River One of the best things that Hugh's professional life had brought him was a friendship with his father; their relations had been increasingly tense all through the undergraduate days; if Hugh had not been of a superficially timorous temperament, disliking intensely the atmosphere of displeasure, disapproval, or misunderstanding, among those with whom he lived, there would probably have been sharp collisions.
— from Beside Still Waters by Arthur Christopher Benson

On the contrary, he appeared very dejected and disconsolate before the officer of justice, who, in all the pride of his position, laid his hand upon the man's shoulder.
— from Withered Leaves: A Novel. Vol. II. (of III) by Rudolf von Gottschall

“The death of his parents left him in charge of his Aunt Nancy, whose tender care took the place of those parental attentions which should have guided and protected his infant years, and consoled him for the severity of another relative.”
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes