Catherine, as she crossed the hall, listened to the tempest with sensations of awe; and, when she heard it rage round a corner of the ancient building and close with sudden fury a distant door, felt for the first time that she was really in an abbey.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Priest-like, he wore a robe more white than foam, And, king-like, swathed himself in royal red, Three crowns of gold rose high upon his head:
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

So have I,” replied Rhys.
— from The Sheep-Stealers by Violet Jacob

"Are you sure he is really ruined?"
— from Moth and Rust; Together with Geoffrey's Wife and The Pitfall by Mary Cholmondeley

De spec'lator gang stoled her and brung her and sold her in Red River, in Mississippi.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 by United States. Work Projects Administration

“Who are you?” said he, in rather rough accents; “from whence do you come?”
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 1 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

Though he looked older and more serious than when I last saw him, I readily recognized the same noble expression of face.
— from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Griffith Browne

At that instant, I felt a fresh renewal of the crown of thorns, not only round my head, as usual, but all over it; and, for several hours, I remained rejoicing amid thousands of torments.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler

Mr. Fox of Falmouth has obtained some highly important results respecting the electricity of metalliferous veins in the mines of Cornwall, which have been published in the Philosophical Transactions 22 .
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

Our task, to use the words of Senator Humphrey, is "reconciliation, rebuilding, and rebirth.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Jimmy Carter