Imagine what the boys said when they saw a Marionette enter the classroom!
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

and, struggling and making efforts to free himself from Yakov’s hands, he accidentally caught hold of his shirt near the neck and tore the collar; and it seemed to Aglaia that he was trying to beat Yakov.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It subsided at length; and, throwing himself on the couch, he remained silent and motionless, except that his changeful features shewed a strong internal conflict.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When inequality of conditions is the common law of society, the most marked inequalities do not strike the eye: when everything is nearly on the same level, the slightest are marked enough to hurt it.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

HAPPY AM I THAT THIS MISSION HAS BROUGHT MY FEET AT LAST TO PRESS NEW ENGLAND'S HISTORIC SOIL and my eyes to the knowledge of her beauty and her thrift.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Happy am I that this mission has brought my feet at last to press New England's historic soil and my eyes to the knowledge of her beauty and her thrift.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The pubic arch, A, spans crossways, the middle of this part of the urethra, G, opposite the bulb H. The two extremes, F K, of this curve, and the lower part of the symphysis pubis, occupy in the adult the same antero-posterior level; and it follows, therefore, that the distance to which the urethra near its bulb, H, is removed from the pubic symphysis above must equal the depth of its own curve, which measures about an inch perpendicularly.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

With the numerous soldiers of Asia, with all of warlike stores, ships, and military engines, that wealth and power could command, the Turks at once resolved to crush an enemy, which creeping on by degrees, had from their stronghold in the Morea, acquired Thrace and Macedonia, and had led their armies even to the gates of Constantinople, while their extensive commercial relations gave every European nation an interest in their success.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

As the supreme head of his family and nation, the great sultan of Persia commanded the obedience and tribute of his royal brethren: the thrones of Kerman and Nice, of Aleppo and Damascus; the Atabeks, and emirs of Syria and Mesopotamia, erected their standards under the shadow of his sceptre: and the hordes of Turkmans overspread the plains of the Western Asia.
— 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

Here's ten obituaries, and every one of them saints and models, even the men.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

and in hir brother, that would satisfie the request of Cnute herein, considering he had béene such a mortall enimie to hir former husband.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed

She was not interested in the humor of my embarrassment, but she wrote me a grieved and distressed letter, asking how I could ever have gone into the saloon of that Plaquemine hotel, or any other place where alcoholic beverages were sold, and much else to the like effect.
— from Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston

For, that same day, his Majesty having received their Deputation of welcome, as seemed, rather drily, the Deputation cannot but feel slighted, cannot but lament such slight: and thereupon our cheering swearing First Parliament sees itself, on the morrow, obliged to explode into fierce retaliatory sputter, of anti-royal Enactment as to how they, for their part, will receive Majesty; and how Majesty shall not be called Sire any more, except they please: and then, on the following day, to recall this Enactment of theirs, as too hasty, and a mere sputter though not unprovoked.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The free statoblasts are small and moderately elongate, the maximum breadth as a rule measuring about 2/3 of the length; the capsule is relatively large and the ring of air-cells is not very much broader at the ends than at the sides; the dorsal surface of the central capsule is profusely tuberculate.
— from Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale

Dear mother smiled softly at my excitement, though her own was not much less, I am sure, and enhanced by sore anxiety.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

He had but 22,000 men; and it is clear that, while the Spaniards were attacking his left and centre, he could not have set aside men enough to hold back the assault of the solid mass of 20,000 British troops upon his right.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

Under these circumstances, it can scarcely be wondered at, that thenceforth the Danish invasions became more frequent, more systematic, and more extensive than ever.
— from London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London. by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

"'It seemeth hard, Tom,' said Bill, tryin' to comfort him; 'it seemeth hard; but I'm an older man nor you be, Tom, the matter of several years;' and he gave his trowsers a twitch (you know they don't wear galluses, though a gallus holds them up sometimes), shifted his quid, gave his nor'wester a pull over his forehead, and looked solemncholly, 'and my experience, Tom, is, that this life ain't all beer and skittles.'
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We are glad to see that the Trustees of the British Museum have printed a List of the Autograph Letters, Original Charters, Great Seals, and Manuscripts, exhibited to the Public in the Department of Manuscripts .
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various