And therewithal Sir Gareth smote him upon the helm such a buffet that he fell grovelling; and then he leapt over him and unlaced his helm, and smote off his head from the body.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

I suppose he used to tell himself that he could take them or leave them alone, and then found—too late—that he couldn't."
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

I’ve seen ’em as would pull a woman’s child out of her arms, and set him up to sell, and she screechin’ like mad all the time;—very bad policy—damages the article—makes ’em quite unfit for service sometimes.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

There she was, tall, round-bosomed and willowy, in her starched muslin and flapping Leghorn, as he had seen her under the orange-trees in the Mission garden.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

And truly, at all times, the storm, that drives The traveller to a shelter, summoned him Up to the mountains: he had been alone Amid the heart of many thousand mists, That came to him and left him on the heights.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Now, he thought, since all these most easily perishing things have slipped from me again, now I'm standing here under the sun again just as I have been standing here a little child, nothing is mine, I have no abilities, there is nothing I could bring about, I have learned nothing.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

It furnishes a fresh proof of the extraordinary strength and tenacity of the hold which this world-wide delusion has had, and still has, upon the human mind.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Her brother was writing while I conversed with her, or rather answered all the questions which she addressed to me, and which I could only satisfy by developing the ideas that she already had, and that she was herself amazed to find in her own mind, for her soul had until then been unconscious of its own powers.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Perks said it was all very well, and still held up the paper.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

It had struck him, up to now, that this particular balm was a mixture of which Amerigo, as through some hereditary privilege, alone possessed the secret; so that he found himself wondering if it had come to Charlotte, who had unmistakably acquired it, through the young man's having amiably passed it on.
— from The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 by Henry James

"I wonder," he said to the mother, "if it would be asking too much to let me stay here until tomorrow.
— from Dorian by Nephi Anderson

Enchanted by the scene, she seated herself upon the soft moss, and, overcome by fatigue, was soon asleep.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Noel smiled, showing her upper teeth, and her eyes seemed to swim under their long lashes.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

A shot from the fort struck so hard upon the buckler under cover of which he was taking his observations as to fell him to the ground.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

10 Still, having undertaken the task he has in obedience to your Majesty's commands, Lord Derby will not relax in his efforts to frame such a Government as may be honoured with your Majesty's gracious approval, and prove itself equal to the emergency which calls it together.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

This was too high for Tommy to see the dishes; so he used to come in before I sat down, when all was ready, and climb up on the pole that supported the roof.
— from Stories of the Gorilla Country, Narrated for Young People by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu