Lady Audley went from the garden to the library, a pleasant, oak-paneled, homely apartment in which Sir Michael liked to sit reading or writing, or arranging the business of his estate with his steward, a stalwart countryman, half agriculturalist, half lawyer, who rented a small farm a few miles from the Court.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

An Officer of the Ship seeing a Silver Call hang at the Wast of the former, said to him, I presume you are Boatswain of this Ship.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

What he asserts is, first, that the Sovereign, as such, cannot have any interest contrary to the interest of the citizens as a whole—that is obvious; and, secondly, that it cannot have an interest contrary to that of any individual.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“You shall not go to Brown's today, little one,” he whispers, as he climbs the stairs; and she catches his arm in terror, gasping: “No!
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

she murmured:—"This is the end of love!—Yet not the end!"— and frenzy lent her strength as she cast her arm up to heaven: "there is the end!
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I saved thee— Let thine own Greeks be witness, every one That sailed on Argo—saved thee, sent alone To yoke with yokes the bulls of fiery breath, And sow that Acre of the Lords of Death; And mine own ancient Serpent, who did keep The Golden Fleece, the eyes that knew not sleep, And shining coils, him also did I smite Dead for thy sake, and lifted up the light [Pg 28] That bade thee live.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

On it was cut in black letters the well-known words which so many Americans had reverently read: “Sacred to the Memory of General Sir Arthur St. Clare, Hero and Martyr, who Always Vanquished his Enemies and Always Spared Them, and Was Treacherously Slain by Them At Last.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

"There's the tail to be skinned yet," said Sancho; "all so far is cakes and fancy bread; but if your worship wants to know all about the calumnies they bring against you, I will fetch you one this instant who can tell you the whole of them without missing an atom; for last night the son of Bartholomew Carrasco, who has been studying at Salamanca, came home after having been made a bachelor, and when I went to welcome him, he told me that your worship's history is already abroad in books, with the title of THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA; and he says they mention me in it by my own name of Sancho Panza, and the lady Dulcinea del Toboso too, and divers things that happened to us when we were alone; so that I crossed myself in my wonder how the historian who wrote them down could have known them."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

As soon as she came here, and saw the water, she stopped as if she had come to her destination; and presently went slowly along by the brink of the river, looking intently at it.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Will it not be easy for me to forget her sex, and still consider her as my Friend and my disciple?
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Flora was silent, and Sim cried "Hookie" a hundred times within an hour.
— from Down the River; Or, Buck Bradford and His Tyrants by Oliver Optic

Sorely against his will, Elsley went, saw, and smelt; came home again; was very unwell; and was visited nightly for a week after that by that most disgusting of all phantoms, sanitary nightmare; which some who have worked in the foul places of the earth know but too well.
— from Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley

Crescence stood by the fire in the kitchen: the College Chap came in with very audible steps, and said,-- "Crescence, how are you?
— from Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

Mr. Ready told Mrs. Ready as soon as she came home, and she told her neighbour the same night.
— from Talkers: With Illustrations by John Bate

Wallowby secured her book as she reached the landing, and placed himself at her side; and Peter, not to be cut out, had to make a dash for her parasol on the stand, and so constitute himself a third in the party.
— from Inchbracken: The Story of a Fama Clamosa by Robert Cleland

As soon as she came home, and had paid her duty to the marquis, she hurried to her chamber, to be at liberty to indulge her agreeable reflections; and, after the example of her heroines, when any thing extraordinary happened to them, called her favourite woman; or, to use her own language, her, "in whom she confided her most secret thoughts."
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

Pod struck out, but Bert advanced his center fielder to second with a sacrifice, and Smeed came home a moment later on Fleet’s long hit between first and second.
— from Comrades on River and Lake by Ralph Victor