“Nonsense,” returned Danglars, “I tell you again I have nothing whatever to do with it; besides, you know very well that I tore the paper to pieces.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I had rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition 25 than in air rarified to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

His wife, his son, his uncle, (a barber in name and profession,) exposed the contrast of vulgar manners and princely expense; and without acquiring the majesty, Rienzi degenerated into the vices, of a king.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

There sat Elizabeth of York in the midst of an immense white rose, whose petals formed elaborate furbelows around her; by her side was Henry VII., issuing out of a vast red rose, disposed in the same manner: the hands of the royal pair were locked together, and the wedding-ring ostentatiously displayed.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

He then returned disconsolate into the kitchen, where he found Jones in the custody of his servants.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

As the sternal ribs degenerate into the "false" asternal or incomplete ribs from before, obliquely backward down to the last dorsal vertebra, so the thoracic space takes form.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

When they had collected some trifling gratuities they went to the river Regnitz and flung the puppets representing Death into the stream.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

In the back, a wide doorway with curtains drawn back, leading into a smaller room decorated in the same style as the drawing-room.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

The detail which is applied to an existing surface is invariably more open, with a resulting display in the background.
— from Design and Tradition A short account of the principles and historic development of architecture and the applied arts by Amor Fenn

Although many people strongly associate the Gesell Committee with the use of economic coercion against race discrimination in the community, the committee's emphasis was always on the local commander's role in achieving voluntary compliance with the department's equal opportunity policies.
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

Jack awoke early in the morning, and seeing something uncommon darkening the window of his bedchamber, ran downstairs into the garden, where he found some of the beans had taken root, and sprung up surprisingly: the stalks were of an immense thickness, and had twined together until they formed a ladder like a chain, and so high that the top appeared to be lost in the clouds.
— from The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

We are going to have a romping day in the country.
— from The Eddy: A Novel of To-day by Clarence Louis Cullen

Before it reached the schooner Mark rushed down into the cabin and called to his parents and Ruth to hurry on deck.
— from Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida by Kirk Munroe

He also studied at Oxford, reading deeply in the Bodleian Library, and became the correspondent of Le Clerc and Bayle.
— from A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

1 The priest can scarcely have been a descendant of his namesake, the General, who, to the manifest delight of an Irish Parliament, thus spake of potheen :—“The Chancellor on the woolsack drinks it, the Judge on the bench drinks it, the Peer in his robes drinks it, the Beggar with his wallet drinks it, I drink it, every man drinks it.” The city of Delhi is constructed of painted wood, and does not exceed in dimensions a respectable modern residence.
— from A Little Tour in Ireland by S. Reynolds (Samuel Reynolds) Hole