9 When we transgressed Your commandment, You made us come out of the garden, and sent a cherub to keep the Tree of Life, lest we should eat thereof, and live; and know nothing of faintness after we transgressed.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

But the excessive freedom of the verses struck even them at last; as for the general public they were not only scandalised but obviously offended.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The ground behind these flaming things dropped away in terraces to the sea, each terrace a little orchard, where among the olives grew vines on trellises, and fig-trees, and peach-trees, and cherry-trees.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

This commanding Creature (who was born for Destruction of all who behold her) put on such a Resignation in her Countenance, and bore the Whispers of all around the Court with such a pretty Uneasiness, I warrant you, and then recovered her self from one Eye to another, 'till she was perfectly confused by meeting something so wistful in all she encountered, that at last, with a Murrain to her, she cast her bewitching Eye upon me.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

He breakfasted in bed, and remained wallowing there with an air of quiet enjoyment till noon every day—and sometimes even to a later hour.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

They finished the meal in silence, each turned a little from the other, and Kim topped it with a native-made cigarette. 'Have I not said an hundred times that the South is a good land?
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

“It’s said that on the night they disappeared several shots were heard.” “Several shots?” echoed the alferez, looking around at the other guests, who nodded their heads in corroboration of the padre’s statement.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Now it was Mr. Wickfield, now Agnes, now the excellence of Mr. Wickfield, now my admiration of Agnes; now the extent of Mr. Wickfield’s business and resources, now our domestic life after dinner; now, the wine that Mr. Wickfield took, the reason why he took it, and the pity that it was he took so much; now one thing, now another, then everything at once; and all the time, without appearing to speak very often, or to do anything but sometimes encourage them a little, for fear they should be overcome by their humility and the honour of my company, I found myself perpetually letting out something or other that I had no business to let out and seeing the effect of it in the twinkling of Uriah’s dinted nostrils.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

This said exemption shall remain in full force, as contained in the above article, and shall extend to all lands now in the possession of the said duke within the realm of France.
— from The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 07 [of 13] Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries by Enguerrand de Monstrelet

"If you'll oblige me by talking common sense for about five minutes, you may devote your powerful intellect to the consideration of psychological mysteries for a month at a stretch," exclaimed the aggravated lawyer.
— from Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

There were now but one warrior and two females left, and it seemed that it could be but a matter of seconds ere these, also, lay dead upon the scarlet sward.
— from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

It seems strange enough that anonymous letters picked up in the street should have been deemed a worthy theme of discussion before their High Mightinesses the States-General.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Strangely enough, the average layman is inclined to overlook this fairly apparent fact, and that is the reason why, even at the risk of repeating myself, I frequently refer to it.
— from The Victory At Sea by Burton Jesse Hendrick

“Get me some water quick, Roy,” she exclaimed, tearing a long strip from her linen petticoat to serve as a bandage.
— from The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship by Margaret Burnham

Was the "Ohio Idea" ever strong enough to affect legislation?
— from The Teaching of History by E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell