They are addressed in the language of their country, and the piano sounds for them with melodies of their native land; and before these have died away, the chord has been struck, the wire of thought that reaches to the land of the sufferers announces that they are rescued.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

As soon as the things are ready, we take horse and set off at a great pace, for on this occasion he is anxious to get there.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This song inspired the fat-headed old gentleman, who made several attempts to tell a rather broad story out of Joe Miller that was pat to the purpose; but he always stuck in the middle, everybody recollecting the latter part excepting himself.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

He was sitting at the table and rapidly writing a letter.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[The Unconscious Humorists.] H2 anchor Z ZAMBINELLA, a eunuch, who sang at the Theatre Argentina, Rome, the leading soprano parts; he was very beautiful.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

He says, also, that the ancient Romans, for more than a hundred and seventy years, worshipped the gods without an image.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

My foot is so unstable and unsteady, I find myself so apt to totter and reel, and my sight so disordered, that, fasting, I am quite another man than when full; if health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very affable, good-natured man; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humour, and not to be seen.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

If that was so, it follows that the old founders of the midsummer rites had observed the solstices or turning-points of the sun’s apparent path in the sky, and that they accordingly regulated their festal calendar to some extent by astronomical considerations.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

It was not long after 1848; and, somehow, about that time, all round the world, these kings, they had the casting vote, and voted for themselves.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

The Tree and the Reed "Well, little one," said a Tree to a Reed that was growing at its foot, "why do you not plant your feet deeply in the ground, and raise your head boldly in the air as I do?"
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop

On the other hand, Stockforce might have had the luck just to keep afloat a few more miles and get into Plymouth Sound, but as it was she sank a little too soon, and thus the actual result of the encounter might by some be called indecisive, or even in favour of the enemy.
— from Q-Ships and Their Story by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton

Perhaps we may sum up the general characteristics of this preliterary Latin out of which both the spoken and written language developed by saying that it showed a tendency to analysis rather than synthesis, a loose and variable grammatical structure, and a lack of logic in expression.
— from The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Frank Frost Abbott

From hence, going up the extensive valley El Araba, it is found to be full of sand drifts, with here and there a few trees scattered about; the torrents, after rain, flow along the west side, and their waters, which are not absorbed by the sand , enter the sea at the north-west angle.
— from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX April-October 1850 by Various

But he cannot at once make amends, as he has chased her away, and it is not till some years later, and with supernatural aid, that they are reunited.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

In using without bait the trigger is so arranged that the animal rubs or steps on the trigger when entering or leaving the pen or if at a trail or runway when passing along.
— from Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

As soon as they begin to secrete again, the tentacles are ready to re-act; and this may be repeated at least three, probably many more times.
— from Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin

Then she went, and Hanaud smiled across the table at Ricardo.
— from The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

She had a bird-like way of skimming her ground that took her over it with wonderful swiftness; all the tassels, and ribbon knots, and sashes with which her uniform was rendered so gay and so distinctive fluttering behind her; and her little military boots, with the bright spurs twinkling, flying over the earth too lightly for a speck of dust,—though it lay thick as August suns could parch it,—to rest upon her.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

" This song inspired the fat-headed old gentleman, who made several attempts to tell a rather broad story out of Joe Miller, that was pat to the purpose; but he always stuck in the middle, everybody recollecting the latter part excepting himself.
— from Old Christmas by Washington Irving