Then he went and stood before her, and said, "Ah, wife, and now you are King."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

He sighed, and whispered a name, and the head bathed in tears and pressed on the velvet cushion of the chair—a head like that of a Magdalen by Correggio—was raised and turned towards him.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Aunt looked sober at first, but he was so cool about it she couldn't say a word; and now we get on nicely, and are very glad he came, for he speaks French like a native, and I don't know what we should do without him.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

There was nothing, however difficult, which was allowed to be performed in such a way as not to arouse the feelings of the audience in a particular manner.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The floor, it goes without saying, must be smooth and waxed, and no one should attempt to give a dance whose house is not big enough.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Seeing how matters stood, and what a noble great whale it was—the noblest and biggest I ever saw, sir, in my life—I resolved to capture him, spite of the boiling rage he seemed to be in.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

"Taking it easy," indeed—when even Susan hadn't slept a wink all night!
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Music was a passion less turbulent, but not less consuming, from the ardor with which I attached myself to it, by the obstinate study of the obscure books of Rameau; by an invincible resolution to charge my memory with rules it could not contain; by continual application, and by long and immense compilations which I frequently passed whole nights in copying: but why dwell on these particularly, while every folly that took possession of my wandering brain, the most transient ideas of a single day, a journey, a concert, a supper, a walk, a novel to read, a play to see, things in the world the least premeditated in my pleasures or occupation became for me the most violent passions, which by their ridiculous impetuosity conveyed the most serious torments; even the imaginary misfortunes of Cleveland, read with avidity and frequent interruption, have, I am persuaded, disordered me more than my own.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But perhaps he may be going out of town–to a distance," she added, with a new sense of despondency at this idea.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The conduct of this important business was intrusted to the eloquent Symmachus, a wealthy and noble senator, who united the sacred characters of pontiff and augur with the civil dignities of proconsul of Africa and præfect of the city.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"We have enough of this metal with us so that we can spare you some as well as not.
— from Skylark Three by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

William Lee replied that he could not exactly compute in advance what he would need, but that, if he was empowered to draw upon the banker of the Commissioners, he would certainly only draw from time to time for such sums as were absolutely necessary; and that it was therefore a matter of little importance at what amount the credit was fixed.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

It might have been remarked the other day, that the civic idea of Justice differs from all the ordinary notions of the character, for the Justice of the Corporation of London as seen in the procession, instead of being blindfold, wore a bandage over the forehead in such a way as not to interfere with her sight, or prevent her from having both her eyes open to her own interest.
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

"It's no good challenging a man under sentence of death," said another; while a number of others held to Essaieff's view—that I was beside myself with fear, or drink, or both combined.
— from By Right of Sword by Arthur W. Marchmont

But the man worked steadily and well, and Nic began to feel annoyed and ready to tell the elder servant that if he would only work as well as his fellow the waggon would be laden much sooner.
— from First in the Field: A Story of New South Wales by George Manville Fenn

Brengyn turned to the men behind him, the dark, determined toilers who sustained the immortal spirit of courage and humanity on thirty shillings a week and nine hours' work a day.
— from The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker

"Measuring buildings and drawing them out to scale is solid architectural work, and nothing else can take its place.
— from The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 02, February 1895. Byzantine-Romanesque Doorways in Southern Italy by Various