I shall come up to Derby next week, and I would call in Nottingham, and we might have tea together.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

And, as the old Swain said, she can unlock The clasping charms, and thaw the numming spell, If she be right invok't in warbled Song, For maid'nhood she loves, and will be swift To aid a Virgin, such as was her self In hard besetting need, this will I try And adde the power of som adjuring verse.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Tiny would have been frozen in the cold air, but she crept under the bird's warm feathers, keeping her little head uncovered, so that she might admire the beautiful lands over which they passed.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

All this I shall some day write at fuller length, and amidst these more stirring days I would tenderly sketch in these lovely summer evenings, when with the deep blue sky above us we lay in good comradeship among the long grasses by the wood and marveled at the strange fowl that swept over us and the quaint new creatures which crept from their burrows to watch us, while above us the boughs of the bushes were heavy with luscious fruit, and below us strange and lovely flowers peeped at us from among the herbage; or those long moonlit nights when we lay out upon the shimmering surface of the great lake and watched with wonder and awe the huge circles rippling out from the sudden splash of some fantastic monster; or the greenish gleam, far down in the deep water, of some strange creature upon the confines of darkness.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

He was, therefore, fain to adopt a caution that in the present temper of his mind he execrated, and to listen to advice at which his fiery spirit chafed, under the vivid recollection of Cora's danger and Magua's insolence.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Some thought the vessel could not live through the night, and it seemed less dreadful to stand out in the midst of the wild tempest and see the peril that threatened than to be shut up in the sepulchral cabins, under the dim lamps, and imagine the horrors that were abroad on the ocean.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

For this is the force of the words, "They shall come unto thee," [1] —not, that is to say, by man's effort, but by God's will.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

So when the great strain came upon the powers of the nation, instead of drawing strength from every quarter and through many channels, and laying the whole outside world under contribution by the energy of its merchants and seamen, as England has done in like straits, it was thrown back upon itself, cut off from the world by the navies of England and Holland, and the girdle of enemies which surrounded it upon the continent.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

It is further declared that "Brahma sent his son (Chrishna) upon the earth to die for the salvation of man."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Now, the blackest and hottest wrath, and most fiery and all-devouring indignation of the Judge of men and angels, shall come upon them who deny our sweet Lord Jesus, and put their hand to that oath of wickedness now pressed.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford

The soldiers cut up the mast of their big boat for axles.
— from The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Katherine Chandler

Whatever his motives might have been, the world called his offenses by the darkest names, and angry creditors vowed every knife, fork, and spoon should come under the hammer.
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

While my eyes were fixed on that monarch a very small spirit came up to me, shook me heartily by the hand, and told me his name was Thomas Thumb .
— from The Works of Henry Fielding, vol. 11 A Journey From This World to the Next; and A Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding

As they went, a purplish shade came upon the grey masses in the north; — the sunlight colours over Bright Spot took richer and deeper hues of purple and red; the salmon network in the south changed for rose.
— from Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner

They knock him down in some canyon up there."
— from The Best Made Plans by Everett B. Cole

To effect this object, this seventeenth section contains the following provisions:— "That so much of section fourteen of said act as relates to a branch from Sioux City, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: That whenever a line of railroad shall be completed through the state of Iowa, or Minnesota, to Sioux City, such company now organized, or as may be hereafter organized, under the laws of Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota, or Nebraska, as the president of the United States, by its request, may designate, or approve for the purpose, shall construct and operate a line of railroad and telegraph from Sioux City, upon the most direct and practicable route to such point on, and so as to connect with, the Iowa branch of the Union Pacific railroad, as such company may select, and on the same terms and conditions as are provided in this act, and the act to which this is an amendment, for the construction of said Union Pacific railroad and telegraph line, and branches; and said company shall complete the same at the rate of fifty miles per year.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

She came up to Raffles and me as though she had forgiven both of us our trespasses of two or three minutes ago.
— from Mr. Justice Raffles by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung