Lady Feng likewise threw down the Ning Mansion order and exclaimed, addressing herself to Lai Sheng: "Cut him a month's wages and rice!
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Scattered over this small clearing, here and there might be seen the but-end of some half-burnt hemlock tree, which had escaped the general combustion of the log heaps, and now formed a striking contrast to the white limestone rocks which showed their rounded surfaces above the meagre soil.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The Shakespearite conducts his assuming upon a definite principle, an unchanging and immutable law: which is: 2 and 8 and 7 and 14, added together, make 165.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

The Roman See could have as little independence of action while a hostile monarch was possessed of the southern kingdoms, as the people of Florence could have freedom while the Ghibeline nobility had for patron a military prince, to whom their gates lay open by way of Siena and Pisa.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

He flew into the towns, and looked about, and wherever a kind hand had strewed bread on the window-sill for the birds, he only ate a single crumb himself, and gave all the rest to the rest of the other birds.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Think how many absolutely new scientific conceptions have arisen in our own generation, how many new problems have been formulated that were never thought of before, and then cast an eye upon the brevity of science's career.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

“I take it that no man in his senses can have any doubt of that.
— from The Angel of Pain by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

The house was searched, and the landlord subjected to a close scrutiny concerning harboring a man of the description of the hunted monarch.
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss

She clasped her arms round him, she drew him to her, she half roused his passion.
— from Aaron's Rod by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

He there joined the barque, homeward bound, the hospitable skipper gladly offering him a passage home, and, by a singular coincidence, had arrived in the river only an hour or two ahead of his own ship.
— from The Missing Merchantman by Harry Collingwood

But first he casts to change his proper shape, Which else might work him danger or delay: And now a stripling Cherube he appeers, Not of the prime, yet such as in his face Youth smil'd Celestial, and to every Limb Sutable grace diffus'd, so well he feignd; Under a Coronet his flowing haire 640 In curles on either cheek plaid, wings he wore Of many a colourd plume sprinkl'd with Gold, His habit fit for speed succinct, and held Before his decent steps a Silver wand.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

General Doby mingles his tears with theirs, and somebody calls him a jellyfis
— from Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 3 by Winston Churchill

What is this I hear of a certain Noble Duke, well-known in sporting circles, having accepted a three months' engagement to appear in a "comic character sketch of his own composition," at a long-established East End-Music Hall?
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890 by Various