Recovering from the softer impressions produced by Bathsheba's voice, the shearers rose to leave, Coggan turning to Pennyways as he pushed back the bench to pass out:— "I like to give praise where praise is due, and the man deserves it—that 'a do so," he remarked, looking at the worthy thief, as if he were the masterpiece of some world-renowned artist.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

He slipped into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened the door.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I remember that, although I had often conducted this opera before in Magdeburg, on this occasion the wild nature of the instrumentation and its lack of mastership affected me to such an extent that it literally made me ill, and as soon as he returned, therefore, I implored Reissiger at any cost to resume the leadership.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

So then Xenophon, with the youngest men, scaled up to the top, leaving orders to the rest to march on slowly, so as to allow the hindmost companies to unite with them; they were to advance by the road, and when they reached the level to ground arms (3).
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

And as the day advanced and the engine drivers and stokers refused to return to London, the pressure of the flight drove the people in an ever-thickening multitude away from the stations and along the northward-running roads.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

"Look ye, senor," said Sancho, "there's no enchantment here, nor anything of the sort, for between the bars and chinks of the cage I have seen the paw of a real lion, and judging by that I reckon the lion such a paw could belong to must be bigger than a mountain."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And, indeed, Françoise herself was well aware that she had in him a countryman and contemporary, for when my aunt was too ill for Françoise to be able, unaided, to lift her in her bed or to carry her to her chair, rather than let the kitchen-maid come upstairs and, perhaps, 'make an impression' on my aunt, she would send out for Théodore.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

He encamped on the banks of the Anio, at the distance of three miles from the city; and he was soon informed, that the ground on which he had pitched his tent, was sold for an adequate price at a public auction; 911 and that a body of troops was dismissed by an opposite road, to reenforce the legions of Spain.
— 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

Still continuing no less attached to union than enamored of liberty, they observed the danger which immediately threatened the former and more remotely the latter; and being persuaded that ample security for both could only be found in a national government more wisely framed, they as with one voice, convened the late convention at Philadelphia, to take that important subject under consideration.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

After he had in divers ways studied amain to recover the love himseemed he had lost without his fault and finding all his labour vain, he resolved to withdraw from the world, that he might not afford her who was the cause of his ill the pleasure of seeing him pine away; wherefore, without saying aught to friend or kinsman, save to a comrade of his, who knew all, he took such monies as he might avail to have and departing secretly, came to Ancona, where, under the name of Filippo di Sanlodeccio, he made acquaintance with a rich merchant and taking service with him, accompanied him to Cyprus on board a ship of his.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

It was to be really the last time.
— from A Rich Man's Relatives (Vol. 2 of 3) by Robert Cleland

Yes, there, right there, look out for the water, not stagnant, but water that “breaks out.” “Then shall the lame man leap as the hart” that finds the stream it needs, and the “dumb shall sing,” for this living water shall quench his thirst, and loosen his dried-up tongue.
— from Broken Bread, from an Evangelist's Wallet by Thomas Champness

The Heer says that I live upon his land, but I am not his slave; I pay him rent to live here.
— from Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Growing bolder, Mary Louise continued to raise the lid of the compartment until it was upright at its full height.
— from The Mystery at Dark Cedars by Edith Lavell

Jack and Barney slipped through the low lattice, and by means of a narrow shed reached the low roof.
— from The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

“You say she was cheerful yesterday; was she so after receiving this letter?”
— from The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green

She was buried at the expense of the woman of whom her destroyer had rented the little apartment on Sixth Avenue, where she had passed her happiest days and her last.
— from The Secrets of the Great City A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City by James Dabney McCabe

Our right wing had advanced slightly, and occupied a line from near El Mugheir to Es Sawieh, while our left wing had swung round and reached the line Bidich-Baka-Messudieh Junction—that is to say, we were gradually closing in on Nablus from the south, south-west, and west.
— from With the British Army in The Holy Land by H. O. (Henry Osmond) Lock

She repeated these lines with so strong an emphasis, that she almost frightened Amelia out of her wits, and not a little staggered Booth, who was himself no contemptible scholar.
— from Amelia — Volume 2 by Henry Fielding

They had entered the fatal room; the lamp still burned on the table, and its light fell full on the livid and purple face of the dead woman.
— from A Changed Heart: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming