Thénardier began to dictate:— “My daughter—” The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Then once more old Maciej slowly raised his head, and the tumult began somewhat to subside. “Do not scoff at Robak,” he said; “I know him; he is a clever priest.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

And I, according to my copy, have done set it in imprint, to the intent that noble men may see and learn the noble acts of chivalry, the gentle and virtuous deeds that some knights used in those days, by which they came to honour, and how they that were vicious were punished and oft put to shame and rebuke; humbly beseeching all noble lords and ladies, with all other estates of what estate or degree they been of, that shall see and read in this said book and work, that they take the good and honest acts in their remembrance, and to follow the same.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Thereafter he goes to the ships and revisits his crew, of whose company he chooses the foremost in valour to attend him to war; the rest glide down the water and float idly with the descending stream, to come with news to Ascanius of his father's state.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

"I wish I was going to have a fine time and wear all these nice things," said Amy with her mouth full of pins, as she artistically replenished her sister's cushion.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Besides his task of singing and reading, he had also received a commission from the Apostolic Pope, carefully to inform himself concerning the faith of the English Church, and to give an account thereof on his return to Rome.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Have you telegraph forms? Just write a couple of messages for me: ‘Sumner, Shipping Agent, Ratcliff Highway.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her vessels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of shipbuilding and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

At the town of Caloocan, some three or four miles out to the north of Manila, were located the shops and round houses of the Manila and Dagupan Railway, which runs from Manila in a northwesterly direction about 120 miles to Dagupan, and was then the only railroad in the archipelago.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

sternness &c. adj.; austerity; moodishness[obs3], captiousness &c. 901; cynicism; tartness &c. adj.; acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity. scowl, black looks, frown; short answer, rebuff; hard words, contumely; unparliamentary language, personality. bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub[obs3]; frump, crosspatch[obs3]; saucebox &c. 887[obs3]; crooked stick; grizzly.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Vivian had passed such a recluse life for the last two years and a half, that he had quite forgotten that he was once considered an agreeable fellow; and so, determined to discover what right he ever had to such a reputation, he dashed into all these amourettes in beautiful style.
— from Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Scamp licked her face and huffed and snuffed all round her.
— from Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn by Rosa M. (Rosa Mulholland) Gilbert

But when he had recovered his strength, and refreshed himself after his harsh treatment, he began to be weary with spending his evenings alone, and so entered again upon the same way of living as before; which was to provide enough every day to regale a stranger at night.
— from The Arabian Nights, Volume 3 (of 4) by Anonymous

After this vision she clothed him suitably and returned him to his home.
— from Essays on the Greek Romances by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight

Such a reproach has sullied the clemency of Nicephorus, who relaxed in their favor the severity of the penal statutes, nor will his character sustain the honor of a more liberal motive.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

But quite simply and resolutely he turned away from those things that all too eloquently spoke of the irreparable wrong that had been done to him and his, and affected not to see them or remember them; and Käthchen—a not uninterested observer—said proudly to herself: "If that is not Highland courtesy, I do not know what is."
— from Donald Ross of Heimra (Volume 2 of 3) by William Black

Summoning all resolution, he determined to make another effort to reach the object of his wishes.
— from The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

The Rhio product is also thus sophisticated, and rendered heavier by the Chinese purposely packing it in baskets lined with wet cajangs , occasioning a loss to the purchaser of about 30 per cent.
— from A Text-book of Tanning A treatise on the conversion of skins into leather, both practical and theoretical. by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

He sat down beneath the cypress that stood behind the statue and rested his head within his hands.
— from Foes by Mary Johnston