“What a lot of those Frenchies were taken today, and the fact is that not one of them had what you might call real boots on,” said a soldier, starting a new theme.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"Why, Reynold Greenleaf!" cried the Sheriff, "whence comest thou and where hast thou been?" "I have been in the forest," answered Little John, speaking amazedly, "and there I saw a sight such as ne'er before man's eyes beheld!
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

He only just looked scornful, and said something about nobody ever heard of such an idiotic idea, and then he went to studying.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Bring me here, with elfin speed, The fragrant philter which I need; Make it sweet and swift and strong, Spirit, answer now my song!"
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Crossing the frontier I felt myself in safety, a sensation, strange and new, for the first time after so many years”—and so on and so on.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Make it sweet and swift and strong, Spirit, answer now my song!
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Don Quixote and Sancho got up rather shaken, and, looking about them, were filled with amazement at finding themselves in the same garden from which they had started, and seeing such a number of people stretched on the ground; and their astonishment was increased when at one side of the garden they perceived a tall lance planted in the ground, and hanging from it by two cords of green silk a smooth white parchment on which there was the following inscription in large gold letters: "The illustrious knight Don Quixote of La Mancha has, by merely attempting it, finished and concluded the adventure of the Countess Trifaldi, otherwise called the Distressed Duenna; Malambruno is now satisfied on every point, the chins of the duennas are now smooth and clean, and King Don Clavijo and Queen Antonomasia in their original form; and when the squirely flagellation shall have been completed, the white dove shall find herself delivered from the pestiferous gerfalcons that persecute her, and in the arms of her beloved mat
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Those who consume wheaten bread pay three guilders fifteen stivers; about six shillings and ninepence halfpenny.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I should also say, so as not to praise myself too highly, I had never been tempted," she added with a bitter sigh; and then she smiled: "I met George upon his return from the army—I fell in love with him—I loved him—Oh!
— from The Galley Slave's Ring; or, The Family of Lebrenn A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 by Eugène Sue

But as she stands before him in her artistically simple white dress, her little fingers twitching with embarrassment, and with her large, anxious eyes seeking approval in his face which she awaited so securely and now cannot find, it really seems to him that never in his life has he met a lovelier young girl than Mascha.
— from Boris Lensky by Ossip Schubin

When the King asked her in the evening how she liked the review, she said: “Very well, but only those German soldiers are so simple as not to call things by their proper names, for I had their shouts explained to me.”
— from Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Complete by Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

But he caused those two whom he had put up to do battle with Eric to be set upon with staves and driven from his following, and the end of it was that they might stay no more in Iceland, but took ship and sailed south, and now they are out of the story.
— from Eric Brighteyes by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The carriages of the guests now rolled in from all sides, and so soon as night descended the whole row of windows in the Castle streamed with light.
— from Hermann: A Novel by E. Werner

She smiled and said something, and Neil turned and bowed to Rath and young Blackie, and then stepped into the carriage and took his seat beside the lady, and they drove off together.”
— from Christine: A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia E. Barr

Here, vanish, as in mist, before a flood Of bright obscurity, hill, lawn, and wood; There, objects, by the searching beams betrayed, Come forth, and here retire in purple shade; Even the white stems of birch, the cottage white, Soften their glare before the mellow light; The skiffs, at anchor where with umbrage wide Yon chestnuts half the latticed boat-house hide, Shed from their sides, that face the sun's slant beam, Strong flakes of radiance on the tremulous stream: Raised by yon travelling flock, a dusty cloud Mounts from the road, and spreads its moving shroud; The shepherd, all involved in wreaths of fire, Now shows a shadowy speck, and now is lost entire.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8) by William Wordsworth