Glinda smiled, and going to Tip she took his small brown hand within her dainty white one.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

After the rehearsal I, together with the musical director, Stohr, and Gotze the singer, accepted Liszt's invitation to a simple dinner, at a different inn from the one where he lived.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

For example, if among a large number of infants receiving pasteurized milk from a common source, some are given the milk diluted by one-half, others given it diluted by one-third, and still others whole milk, the last group will show the least tendency to scurvy, which we should not expect were the poison contained in the food.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

“Silence!” said the young woman, placing her hand upon his lips; “silence, and go the same way you came!”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Though gray cutaway suits and gray top hats have always been worn to the races in England, they do not seem suitable here, as races in America are not such full-dress occasions as in France and England.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Then said Panurge: ‘Heere, ik en spreeke anders geen taele dan kersten taele: my dunkt noghtans, al en seg ik u niet een wordt, mynen noot verklaert genoegh wat ik begeere: geeft my uyt bermhertigheit yets waar van ik gevoet magh zyn.’ To which answered Pantagruel, As much of that.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Finally he unravelled a bundle of clothing, comprising a complete set of underclothes, socks, a gray tweed suit, and a short yellow overcoat.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

Describe symptoms and give treatment for the following: wounds, fractures and sprains, exhaustion, choking, lameness.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Diggory, you are too talkative.—Then, if I happen to say a good thing, or tell a good story at table, you must not all burst out a-laughing, as if you made part of the company.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith

Sowl, man, if I were in your boots, with a fine plantation and a whole regiment of black nagers, I’d snap my fingers at the sarvice, and go to raisin’ shugar and tobaccay.
— from Osceola the Seminole; or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid

It will be of little use fishing for some time to come; for these hot hours of the afternoon, from three till six, are generally the ‘deadest time’ of the whole day.
— from Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley

The Kiel Canal, connecting the Baltic and North Sea, and giving the German fleet access to all the open waters of the earth, was opened in 1895.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct; but stand, As if a man were author of himself, And knew no other kin.
— from The Tragedy of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

Before Miss Folliard came down to make tea, Reilly had summoned the servants, and given them instructions as to their conduct during the expected attack.
— from Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

I wish you were bad; it's because you are so awfully good that I hate—I mean, that I cannot get on with any of you.”
— from Light O' the Morning: The Story of an Irish Girl by L. T. Meade

His grace, however, sent Mr. Carrington, the very next morning, with another summons; with which, though in the utmost distress, I immediately complied; but the duke, happening, unfortunately for me, to be then particularly engaged, after I had waited some time, sent a gentleman to discourse with me on the best plan which could be invented for putting an immediate end to those murders and robberies which were every day committed in the streets; upon which I promised to transmit my opinion, in writing, to his grace, who, as the gentleman informed me, intended to lay it before the privy council.
— from The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding

Rolf's crime, however, was that in coming home from one of these expeditions, his crew having fallen short of victual, Rolf landed with them on the shore of Norway, and in his strait, drove in some cattle there (a crime by law) and proceeded to kill and eat; which, in a little while, he heard that King Harald was on foot to inquire into and punish; whereupon Rolf the Ganger speedily got into his ships again, got to the coast of France with his sea-robbers, got infestment by the poor King of France in the fruitful, shaggy desert which is since called Normandy, land of the Northmen; and there, gradually felling the forests, banking the rivers, tilling the fields, became, during the next two centuries, Wilhelmus Conquaestor, the man famous to England, and momentous at this day, not to England alone, but to all speakers of the English tongue, now spread from side to side of the world in a wonderful degree.
— from Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle

Then having slain five generals, and seven counsellors' sons, and grinded the heroic Aksha, he was bound fast (by the arms of Indrajit).
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki

They could not have been made before the chalk; for out of the chalk they came; and the only explanation which is left to us, I believe, is, that over the tops of the chalk downs; over our heads where we stand now, there once stretched layers of sand and gravel, “Tertiary strata” as I have been calling them to you; and among them layers of this same hard sandstone.
— from Scientific Essays and Lectures by Charles Kingsley