He also invented those automata, dressed like the Sultan and resembling the Sultan in all respects,[2] which made people believe that the Commander of the Faithful was awake at one place, when, in reality, he was asleep elsewhere.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Mr Bloom promptly did as suggested and removed the incriminated article, a blunt hornhandled ordinary knife with nothing particularly Roman or antique about it to the lay eye, observing that the point was the least conspicuous point about it.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Without taking leave of his new friend, Pierre left the gate with unsteady steps and returning to his room lay down on the sofa and immediately fell asleep.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Not a chicken or turkey or duck in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

He was not asked to dinner again for six weeks; and Fiche, my lord's confidential man, to whom Wagg naturally paid a good deal of court, was instructed to tell him that if he ever dared to say a rude thing to Mrs. Crawley again, or make her the butt of his stupid jokes, Milor would put every one of his notes of hand into his lawyer's hands and sell him up without mercy.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Thereupon, all the people hurried to the shore, and recognized the body, lamented over it and buried it, and then began to look for the assassins.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

They divide novels into two classes, stories and romances; the story being a form of the novel which relates certain incidents of life with as little complexity as possible; and the romance being a form of novel which describes life as led by strong emotions into complex and unusual circumstances.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

There was our situation as revealed to me in Mr. Franklin’s last words!
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

He seated Cosette with her back against a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where the conduit touched the pavement.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

This put Mrs. Crabtree into such a rage, that she followed Peter with a perfect hail-storm of angry words, till at last, for a joke, he put up Mrs. Darwin’s umbrella to screen himself, and immediately afterwards the car drove slowly off.
— from Holiday House: A Series of Tales by Catherine Sinclair

Descending into the plains, McMillan selected a site for a station, left some of his men to build huts and stockyards, and returned to report his discovery to Macalister.
— from The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the Early Colonial Life of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, and Others Who Left Their Native Land and Never Returned by George Dunderdale

She has read Georgei, Klapka, and all the rest of them; and she is so thoroughly Bohemian in heart, soul and race, that she is universally called the Tzigana.”
— from Prince Zilah — Complete by Jules Claretie

" "How's that?" "She absolutely refuses to stay here any longer.
— from Peg O' My Heart by J. Hartley Manners

It was seen and responded to by other organizations; thus the English Colonial Church and School Society thought it advisable to locate schools at London, [626] Amherstburg, [627] Colchester
— from The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history by Wilbur Henry Siebert

Scandals and slander are related to the hatred of the people who invent them and are not in any shadowy sense even, effigies or images of the person attacked."
— from Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1 by Frank Harris

Some who are masters of English undefiled might help the cause by translating some of the best bits of Browning, Swinburne and Rossetti, to say nothing of Tennyson, who has gradually constructed a dialect of his own and trained us to understand it.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

But see, now—” he took up a bit of charred stick, and rising, turned to one of the wagons whose canvas side showed clearly in the light of the camp-fire.
— from The Fortune of the Landrays by Vaughan Kester

She perceived the effect she had produced, and in a soft and relenting tone added—'I do not seek to wound your feelings, Mr. Trevor.
— from The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft