My attention was speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Such donkeys are absolutely necessary to us, to me .
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

In time she died, and he married another woman with the same idea, but this time passion was stronger than virtue, and his new wife drove him away from Paris.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It caused so deep and lasting an impression, that in some sections it has persisted through at least five decades.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Mrs. King being close at hand (usually but not necessarily) rises, shakes hands with Mrs. Jones and sits down again.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

If any one would contradict let him visit the churches and cemeteries of the country on All Saints’ day and he will be convinced.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

“The executioner,” said D’Artagnan and Aramis at the same time.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Under these systems decency appears to have been laid aside.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

He replaced the lamp on the table and from his pockets extracted the end of a loaf of bread, several doughnuts and a half-dozen molasses cookies.
— from Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Again was the flag of truce violated, again was treachery substituted for honest fighting, and again were the too trusting savages seized, disarmed, and sent to St. Augustine as prisoners of war.
— from Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War by Kirk Munroe

Two persons laid claim to it, Quintus Trebellius, a centurion of the fourth legion, and Sextus Digitius, a marine.
— from The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livy

I saw Russian soldiers drilling at the stations and artillery constantly on the move.
— from History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Richard Joseph Beamish

I don't think I shall ever make any great discoveries myself, and therefore shall be content to propose them to my descendants, like my Lord Bacon,[3] who, as Dr. Shaw says very prettily in his preface to Boyle, "had the art of inventing arts:" or rather like a Marquis of Worcester, of whom I have seen a little book which he calls "A Century of Inventions,"[4] where he has set down a hundred machines to do impossibilities with, and not a single direction how to make the machines themselves.
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I by Horace Walpole

The days were so dark and long.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

She pouted contemptuously on hearing that a Mr. Sullivan Smith (a remotely recollected figure) had besought Mr. Warwick for an interview, and gained it, by stratagem, 'to bring the man to his senses': but an ultra-Irishman did not compromise her battle-front, as the busybody supplications of a personal friend like Mr. Redworth did; and that the latter, without consulting her, should be 'one of the plaintive crew whining about the heels of the Plaintiff for a mercy she disdained and rejected' was bitter to her taste.
— from Diana of the Crossways — Complete by George Meredith