But she was not without practical intentions; the love of independence was too strong an inheritance and a habit for her not to remember that she must get her bread; and when other projects looked vague, she fell back on that of returning to her plain sewing, and so getting enough to pay for her lodging at Bob's.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

By my faith"—Here he stopped and stood glaring upon the, Miller grimly.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

“Yes,” she said, “he is really quite a beauty, and he has such a sweet, good-tempered face, and such a fine, intelligent eye—what do you say to calling him Black Beauty?”
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

In vegetables soul and seed go forth together and leave nothing but a husk behind.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

where the flutter of his wings Upon his back and body flings Shadows and sunny glimmerings, That cover him all over.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘Your (wife, so I would say) affectionate servant, ‘Goneril.’
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

When Servius, amid some grandees of the Latins with whom he had taken pains to form connexions of hospitality and friendship, extolled in high terms such concord and associa [Pg 60] tion of their gods, by frequently insisting on the same subject, he at length prevailed so far as that the Latin states agreed to build a temple to Diana at Rome, in conjunction with the Roman people.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

I really could not speak, so I kissed the top of Omar’s turban, Arab fashion, and the Maōhn blessed him quite solemnly, and said: ‘God reward thee, my son; thou hast honoured thy lady greatly before thy people, and she has honoured thee, and ye are an example of masters and servants, and of kindness and fidelity;’ and the brown labourers who were lounging about said: ‘Verily, it is true, and God be praised for people of excellent conduct.’ I never expected to feel like Naomi, and possibly many English people might only think Omar’s unconscious repetition of Ruth’s words rather absurd, but to me they sounded in perfect harmony with the life and ways of this country and these people, who are so full of tender and affectionate feelings, when they have not been crushed out of them.
— from Letters from Egypt by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady

Smoke is still rising from the white ashes of the fire, but it is proof enough that the little group has moved away, and that no one is visible from [Pg 88] the highway of the river, when a kingfisher flashes across the bridge, straight up the stream, a swift gleam of azure through the sunlit air.
— from In the West Country by Francis A. (Francis Arnold) Knight

And sad and sadder grew our lay,
— from Canadian Battlefields, and Other Poems by J. R. (John Richardson) Wilkinson

As a matter of course the line should be of braided silk, enamelled, and suited to the weight of the rod, as small as size G, but not larger than size
— from Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others by James A. (James Alexander) Henshall

What is the future of these jostling millions, each individual of whom is striving after some goal, seeking to satisfy some desire?
— from Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

THE GIFTS TO THE FLOCK '… By Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

These are occasionally brought into a higher relief by the white flashes, as the boys throw handfuls of hickory shavings on to the fore-stick, or punch the back-log with the long iron peel, while wishing they had "as many shillings as sparks go up chimney."
— from The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 by Various

It had been arranged that the tourists should pass as Lord and Lady Churchill (the Queen and Prince assuming these rôles ), Lady Churchill becoming Miss Spencer, and Sir George Grey becoming “Dr.” Grey.
— from The Public Life of Queen Victoria by John McGilchrist