" "Squeak, squeak," cried a little mouse at the kitchen door; it was the fourth, and not the third, of the four who were contending for the prize, one whom the rest supposed to be dead.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The evils thereby affecting the superior class are less material and less perceptible, but equally real.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

In short we are driven to regard the expulsion of Death and the bringing in of Summer as, in some cases at least, merely another form of that death and revival of the spirit of vegetation in spring which we saw enacted in the killing and resurrection of the Wild Man.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

“‘Tis never too late to come and pay a visit to so considerable a learned man as Dom Claude Frollo de Tirechappe,” replied Doctor Coictier, whose Franche-Comté accent made all his phrases drag along with the majesty of a train-robe.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Among its officers were Samuel Chase, Judge of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Luther Martin, a member of the convention that formed the U.S. constitution.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

Mr. Emil Behnke writes in a singularly clear and lucid manner, and if his book be not exactly light, it is very interesting reading.
— from The Mechanism of the Human Voice by Emil Behnke

So predestinarianism and solifidianism, Calvinism and Lutherism, may appear in the theology of a national or historic Church, charged ever since the rise of Christianity with the task of developing the immense and complex store of ideas contained in Christianity; and when the stage of development has been reached at which the unsoundness of predestinarian and solifidian dogmas becomes manifest, they will be dropped out of the Church's theology, and she and her task will remain what they were before.
— from St. Paul and Protestantism, with an Essay on Puritanism and the Church of England by Matthew Arnold

I won't tell you, I have been absolutely ravished with delight at the fall of the curtain; but I intend to take the affair in the tant mieux manner, and to console myself for your censure by this greatest proof I have ever received of the sincerity, candour, and, let me add, esteem, of my dear daddy.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

For though the soldier carried a loaded musket and a bayonet locked to the muzzle, he had without an effort of self-defence received the Cossack's lance-thrust in his throat.
— from The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

"But, I say, can anyone lend me a decent suit of togs?" CHAPTER XXIX Bound for the Baltic A fortnight had elapsed since the day on which H.M.S. Capella towed the captured unterseeboot into Harwich harbour.
— from The Submarine Hunters: A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman