Fearing to betray herself, she slipped away, murmuring something about needing more paper.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Mr Swiveller pulled off his coat, and folded it up with great elaboration, staring at Miss Sally all the time; then put on a blue jacket with a double row of gilt buttons, which he had originally ordered for aquatic expeditions, but had brought with him that morning for office purposes; and, still keeping his eye upon her, suffered himself to drop down silently upon Mr Brass’s stool.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

“No, stop a minute, stop a minute,” he said.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I go, great King, thy task to share, And may success attend thee there.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Deeply moved by those startling events and being of a highly nervous nature, she spontaneously sought at my side a protection and security that I was pleased to give her.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

The myrtle bushes, the thyme, the little cyclamen, which peep from the fissures of the rock, all the produce of the place, bear affinity to him; the light that invests the hills participates in his essence, and sky and mountains, sea and valley, are imbued by the presence of his spirit.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I walked back through fields and lines of villas and terraces and then slums and mean streets, and it took me pretty nearly two hours.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

In short, a meer Courtier, a meer Soldier, a meer Scholar, a meer any thing, is an insipid Pedantick Character, and equally ridiculous.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

One is reminded here of Masefield's "The Everlasting Mercy," wherein he speaks as Markham speaks about the child: "And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street; And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom Come; And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to earth."
— from Giant Hours with Poet Preachers by William L. (William Le Roy) Stidger

Mr. Sowerberry came down soon after, and, shortly afterwards, Mrs. Sowerberry appeared; and Oliver having "caught it," in fulfilment of Noah's prediction, followed that young gentleman down stairs to breakfast.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

In cold and ungenial districts the seedlings are mostly sour and crabbed, but in more favorable soils they are oftener mild and sweet.
— from Winter Sunshine by John Burroughs

{151} God creates all living creatures in genera and species, as the Scripture plainly hints when it says: "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after its kind , which may have seed in itself upon the earth."
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

He talks in sputters at my side, as we walk in the increasing light— "They told us—you remember, perhaps—but you weren't there, I believe—they told us the wire had got to be strengthened in front of the Billard Trench.
— from Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse

And, with hand upon my arm, Led me off into the Farm, Where, amid a dwelling-place Fresh and bright as her own face, With a gleam of shining ware For a background everywhere, Free as any summer breeze, With a bunch of huswife's keys At her girdle, sweet and mild Sister Annie blush'd and smiled,— While two tiny laughing girls, Peeping at me through their curls, Hid their sweet shamefacëdness In the skirts of Annie's dress.
— from Saint Abe and His Seven Wives A Tale of Salt Lake City, with a Bibliographical Note by Robert Williams Buchanan

The initial point of the boundary line between the United States and Mexico settled, and a monument with inscriptions erected in north latitude 32° 31´ 59´´.58, and in longitude 119° 35´ 0´´.15 west from Greenwich.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell