My world had for some years been in Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Unufoje en malgranda urbeto ( town ) en Italujo, la reĝo, kiun oni estis nominta Johano, metis grandan sonorilon en la vendejon.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Instead of poverty of spirit we find the rankest kind of pride; instead of mourners we find pleasure seekers; instead of meekness, arrogance; instead of hunger after righteousness we hear men saying, "I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing"; instead of mercy we find cruelty; instead of purity of heart,
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

We now know that our Mandeville is a compilation, as clever and artistic as Malory’s ‘Morte d’Arthur,’ from the works of earlier writers, with few, if any, touches added from personal experience; that it was written in French, and rendered into Latin before it attracted the notice of a series of English translators (whose own accounts of the work they were translating are not to be trusted), and that the name Sir John Mandeville was a nom de guerre borrowed from a real knight of this name who lived in the reign of Edward II.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

When they have thus visited all the houses, they strip the Rain King of his leafy robes and feast upon what they have gathered.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

We find it in a sporting poem, and it deserves to be quoted verbatim as a record of the royal kitchen of the fourteenth century.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

U, Dyú, dalì ra kadiyut, Oh, Joe , would you come here a second.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Then Merlin went to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and counselled him for to send for all the lords of the realm, and all the gentlemen of arms, that they should to London come by Christmas, upon pain of cursing; and for this cause, that Jesus, that was born on that night, that he would of his great mercy show some miracle, as he was come to be king of mankind, for to show some miracle who should be rightwise king of this realm.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

One torpedo, striking the right kind of a blow, can destroy a battleship.
— from The Boy Allies under Two Flags by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

The means was found in 1660 by proposing that Charles II., the newly restored King of England, should marry the Donna Catherine de Braganza.
— from The Story of the Nations: Portugal by H. Morse (Henry Morse) Stephens

Richard knelt on the stone floor outside the choir, intending after early mass to seek his brother; but to his surprise he found the blind man with his child at his feet in what was evidently his accustomed place, just within the door.
— from The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

It's real kind of you.
— from Tom Swift and His Wireless Message; Or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island by Victor Appleton

There!--there you see the real king of France, my brother!"
— from The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

The masonry castle, the ruined keep of which stands to the north-west of the earlier castle, was built by Henry II between 1166 and 1174.
— from English Coast Defences From Roman Times to the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century by George Clinch

The players were not, with the exception of Miss Renée Kelly , of the star class and (I don't necessarily say therefore) were almost uniformly admirable.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Various

2. Father, let our faithful mind Rest, on Thee alone inclined; Every anxious thought repress, Keep our souls in perfect peace.
— from Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary Wilder Tileston

There was a hut at the place with two native policemen to help travellers, and we were told by them that there had been for some days in the neighbourhood what is called "a rogue elephant"—an elephant which, for some reason known only in elephant councils has been driven out of the herd, and is so enraged by his expulsion that he is ready to run amuck at every person and animal he sees.
— from Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy

How would any of the rest know of it or be able to help you?
— from Greenacre Girls by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester