and the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The world renowned tragedians, David Garrick the younger, of Drury Lane Theatre, London, and Edmund Kean the elder, of the Royal Haymarket Theatre, Whitechapel, Pudding Lane, Piccadilly, London, and the Royal Continental Theatres, in their sublime Shaksperean Spectacle entitled The Balcony Scene in Romeo and Juliet!!!
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A picture of the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet hung there and beside it was a picture of the two murdered princes in the Tower which Aunt Julia had worked in red, blue and brown wools when she was a girl.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

It was Quintus Scaevola, the pontifex maximus, who used to attach the greatest importance to all questions of arbitration to which the formula was appended "as good faith requires;" and he held that the expression "good faith" had a very extensive application, for it was employed in trusteeships and partnerships, in trusts and commissions, in buying and selling, in hiring and letting—in a word, in all the transactions on which the social relations of daily life depend; in these, he said, it required a judge of great ability to decide the extent of each individual's obligation to the other, especially when counter-claims were admissible in most cases.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

This is not so in Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet , because here, although the hero perishes, the side opposed to him, being the more faulty or evil, cannot be allowed to triumph when he falls.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The 'honey-tongued' sweetness and beauty of Shakespeare's early writing, as seen in Romeo and Juliet or the Midsummer-Night's Dream , remain; the ease and lucidity remain; but there is an accession of force and weight.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Now, it chanced that Lizzie’s horse was in a bad humour that morning, so it ran away, just as the party came to a grassy slope of half a mile in extent.
— from Shifting Winds: A Tough Yarn by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

“The Garden Scene” in “Romeo and Juliet,” scenes from “Ingomar,” “The School for Scandal,” &c., have been used with good effect.
— from The Mimic Stage A Series of Dramas, Comedies, Burlesques, and Farces for Public Exhibitions and Private Theatricals by George M. (George Melville) Baker

Her consort followed her example—then the ships of the fleet in rotation; 132 and the fort and vessels in the harbour saluted in return, a joyful earnest of a hearty welcome.
— from Tippoo Sultaun: A tale of the Mysore war by Meadows Taylor

To this last superstition there is direct reference made by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet: 'And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals hearing them run mad.'
— from Storyology: Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Benjamin Taylor

In 1804 she was made directress of the Paris Opéra, and some years after, returning from a most wonderful London engagement, she sang in Romeo and Juliet with such effect that the usually impassive Napoleon sprang to his feet, shouting like a schoolboy; the next day, as a testimonial of his appreciation, he sent her a check for twenty thousand francs.
— from Women of the Romance Countries (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 6 (of 10) by John R. (John Robert) Effinger

In the autumn of 1845 Mr. Cary sent up five students, including Rossetti and J.A. Vinter, for admission to the Academy Schools.
— from Dante Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite movement by Esther (of Hampstead) Wood

One she immediately recognized as Jones’ and the other was Jimmy’s.
— from The Blue Grass Seminary Girls' Vacation Adventures Or, Shirley Willing to the Rescue by Carolyn Judson Burnett

The boys shouted in return, and Jerry quickly lighted his torch.
— from The Camp in the Snow; Or, Besieged by Danger by William Murray Graydon