Sviazhsky looked with smiling eyes at Levin, and even made a faint gesture of irony to him; but Levin did not think the landowner’s words absurd, he understood them better than he did Sviazhsky.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

They are busy early and late, sir, early and late; and in bye-times, as on this holiday, they go to book-learning.' 'Not much good to be got out of that,' remarked Fledgeby.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

This in itself would hardly have stopped even a lingering train.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

[Father and son exchange a look behind their port.
— from The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts by John Galsworthy

Some ease at least those pious rites may give, And soothe my sorrows, while I bear to live.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Here like Tantalus , they almost famished in Sight of the fresh Streams and Lakes; being drove to such Extremity at last, that they were forc’d to tare up the Floor of the Cabin, and patch up a sort of Tub or Tray with Rope Yarns, to paddle ashore, and fetch off immediate Supplies of Water to preserve Life.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

I was honored by solemn embassies and letters by the emperor of Constantinople and the king of England.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Nor is this power confined to the best of mankind, but is possessed, to some extent at least, by all.
— from Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Frederick William Robertson

Near the banks the forest trees are interlaced at various angles and in confusion, but further out in the deep water they stand straight, erect, and limbless and barkless, 100 feet tall.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol. 7, No. 5, May 1900 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

If these pests should effect a lodgment, a little benzine poured on the bottom of box or drawer will quickly kill them.
— from The Butterflies of the British Isles by Richard South

Probably he had a girl somewhere else, a lady.
— from Dangerous Days by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Some weeks later there was a curious scene enacted at L'Abri.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Wilde's stylistic efforts are lost in the flood of instrumental sound; only the mood which they were designed to produce remains.
— from Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

To the daylight she presented a pair of sweet brown smiling eyes, and lips as full, and ripe, and firm as though no shadow of doubt and unhappiness had ever crossed her path.
— from The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum

This minister, like his blessed Master, could be seen, early and late, "leaping upon the mountains, and skipping upon the hills," in his eagerness to visit his people who were scattered widely over the country.
— from Sketches of the Covenanters by J. C. (James Calvin) McFeeters