He has had the worst winter yet, mainly from grippe and gastric troubles, and threaten'd blindness; but keeps good spirits, and has a new little forthcoming book in the printer's hands.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

From the root of this tree there put out immediately a sucker, which, in a few days, grew to such a height as not only to equal, but overshadow it, and afford room for many nests of wild pigeons which built in it, though that species of bird particularly avoids a hard and rough leaf.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Emerson paid the following tribute in his Journal to Vedic thought: "It is sublime as heat and night and a breathless ocean.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Would but your Highness, as indeed I now Must call you—and upon his bended knee Never bent Subject more devotedly— However all about you, and perhaps You to yourself incomprehensiblest, But rest in the assurance of your own Sane waking senses, by these witnesses Attested, till the story of it all, Of which I bring a chapter, be reveal'd, Assured of all you see and hear as neither Madness nor mockery— SEG.
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Mrs Whitefield, who has been pottering round the Granada shops, and has a net full of little parcels in her hand, comes in through the gate and sees him.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

This—though I knew how entirely false the statement was—I was fain to pretend to believe; so I begged her to write to her cousin, Lord George, who had supplied her with money, as she admitted, and with whom the plan had been arranged, stating, briefly, that she had altered her mind as to the trip to the country proposed; and that, as her dear husband was rather in delicate health, she preferred to stay at home and nurse him.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Was he at all such as he appears now?" "I have not seen Mr Elliot these three years," was Mrs Smith's answer, given so gravely that it was impossible to pursue the subject farther; and Anne felt that she had gained nothing but an increase of curiosity.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

A smart guard jumped out, giving a whistle, and after him one by one the impatient passengers began to get down: an officer of the guards, holding himself erect, and looking severely about him; a nimble little merchant with a satchel, smiling gaily; a peasant with a sack over his shoulder.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Had they stayed at home, and never seen your daughter, they had answered all the same, spleen, blood, stomach, lungs, liver, lunacy, or as they call it possession.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

He wouldn't have such a hussy another night under his roof.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Outside her prison the street boys sang derisive songs about her, and not a soul comforted her with a kind word.
— from Favorite Fairy Tales: The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women by Various

One weary little mother had eyes for nothing but the kiddie-koop, a little screened box on wheels where her baby could play safe and happy always near her, but out of her way, while she cooked meals for a raft of hired men.
— from God's Green Country: A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Ethel M. Chapman

Very little light or air ever entered the box-like place; during the day its atmosphere was stale and heavy, at night almost fetid.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various

At four there was another service at Berthelsdorf; at eight another service at Herrnhut; at nine the young men marched round the settlement singing hymns; and on Monday morning these wonderful folk returned to their labour like giants refreshed with new wine.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

These creatures had to be driven out of the caves and kept out of the caves in which these early men wanted to squat and hide; and no doubt fire was an effective method of eviction and protection.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells