The lieutenant looked at the sunbeam, at the familiar furniture and the door, and his first inclination was to laugh.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

They are connected by many threads with the old law-books ( smṛitis ) and the Vedas, representing probably a development of older works of the same class.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

It was also common on the Sabbath day itself in many parishes, in the days when dissent was unknown and parishioners had long distances to traverse on a Sunday; ‘and that, too, with the sanction of the clergyman, and even his personal superintendence.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

“Now,” said D’Artagnan, “I am going to call this soldier and talk to him.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

How many miles could you make in those few brief hours, with the darling at your bosom,—the little sleepy head on your shoulder,—the small, soft arms trustingly holding on to your neck?
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

That may be so, but at least it is not so superficial as thought is.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The head usher comes to ask whether the Joneses to be seated in the fourth pew are the tall dark ones or the blond ones, and whether he had not better put some of the Titheringtons who belong in the eighth pew also in the seventh, as there are nine Titheringtons and the Eminents in the seventh pew are only four.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupied with his family a small red wooden house, still standing at the date of this edition, near the Stockbridge Bowl.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

The song of the bullets was in the air and shells snarled among the treetops.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

He early became involved in the controversies of the times, and abandoned his business and country soon after the burning of Falmouth by Mowatt.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark

Then the queen-mother was burnt in the great public square, and the witch in a smaller square; but the children’s mother was crowned queen again amid the shouts of the people, and her husband and her children loved her dearly.
— from Tuscan folk-lore and sketches, together with some other papers by Isabella Mary Anderton

"There's nothing like a lamp-post for an occasion like this, it broadens one's views so," he said, rapidly climbing up a convenient post, from which he could see all that went on.
— from Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica by John Kendrick Bangs

And not on this alone, but on every similar text of the Sacred Word! Which of them can say, in the same sense as the Apostles did, of the Ministers of Christ , that they are “Workers together with God ?”—Let any man revolve in his mind all those words so copiously quoted already, concerning the p. 37 unearthly responsibilities of those who have to “save themselves, and them that hear them.” Let a man deeply think of his Saviour’s words, “I give unto you the keys of the kingdom of heaven,” “He
— from On the apostolical succession Parochial lectures, second series by William J. (William Josiah) Irons

The proportion will in fact be that of the thinness of the mortar in relation to the number of courses or to the quantity of mortar laid between the stones above the different levels of the old wall.
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo

In fact, she always looked “interesting and human,” as her friends might say, but she was sensitive about the disorder she pretended to despise.
— from Nancy Brandon by Lilian Garis

end stanza O elder Hour, when I am not, Gone out like smoke from road and plot, More perfect Hour of light and dew, Shall lovers turn away from you, And long for me, the Unforgot! end stanza end poem end poem container Surely they will, for clear, pure song keeps its vibrancy, and the note to which is set the quaintness of such words as these in Miss Reese’s poem “A Pastoral,” will not easily be forgotten: Oho, my love, oho, my love, and ho, the bough that shows, Against the grayness of mid-Lent, the color of the rose!
— from The Younger American Poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

“Savage as these people are, they can build canoes for themselves, sometimes of birch bark, and sometimes they hollow out the trunks of trees by fire.
— from Kidnapping in the Pacific; Or, The Adventures of Boas Ringdon A long four-part Yarn by William Henry Giles Kingston

Didn't Mrs. Lester's servant admit the visitor last night?"
— from Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy