She was laden with flour, some casks of which commodity were stored upon the deck.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Here are Plato's words, as Cicero [Pg 537] has translated them, [594] in which he introduces the Supreme addressing the gods He had made, and saying, "Ye who are sprung from a divine stock, consider of what works I am the parent and author.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Ingilby, of Ripley Castle, a baronet of the second creation, of whom many amusing anecdotes are still remembered in Yorkshire, and whose appearance cannot have been martial.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

From her girlhood upwards she had had experience among the sick and the mourning, among minds hardened and shrivelled through poverty and ignorance, and had gained the subtlest perception of the mode in which they could best be touched and softened into willingness to receive words of spiritual consolation or warning.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

There might have been twenty people there, young and old, but they all played, and so did Scrooge; for wholly forgetting, in the interest he had in what was going on, that his voice made no sound in their ears, he sometimes came out with his guess quite loud, and very often guessed right, too; for the sharpest needle, best Whitechapel, warranted not to cut in the [Pg 103] eye, was not sharper than Scrooge, blunt as he took it in his head to be.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

“How sprightly you are,” said Caderousse; “One would say you were already in possession of your property.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He soon came out with some old quilts and the cookies, which were in a paper bag.
— from The Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch; Or, Little Folks on Ponyback by Howard Roger Garis

A sudden burst of sun came out, while Ringan and I waited uneasily.
— from Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan

The actual exercise of walking, too, was very exhausting to me; the bright red mud, to the strange colour of which I could not for a long while get accustomed, becoming caked about my little shoes, and wearying me extremely.
— from Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse

Violet, who had not quite recovered from the shock which the sudden sense of her peril had produced, uttered a slight cry of warning and rebuke.
— from The Spider and the Fly; or, An Undesired Love by Charles Garvice

we six childish ones with each our cares— Bespeak we each ones place, in mother's heart, Where we each pour our trouble, hopes and fears, And mother, tenderly takes each one's part.
— from Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward, Containing: A Full Sketch of Her Life With Various Selections from Her Writings and Letters ... by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward

How long he slept he knows not, but he woke in the middle of the night without the smallest consciousness of where he was, or what had happened. ' Page 22 France alone was in his head-France and its horrors, which nothing-not even English porter and intoxication and sleep - could drive away.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

I would for all my fealty, That I could be as much to you As you to me; "And knew the deep secure content Of wives who have been hardly won,
— from Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow

Or, from the same center of will, cold but intense my eyes may watch with curiosity, as a cat watches a fly.
— from Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence