Would that one could transfer into English the delicious way in which the sweet Italian rhymes recur and surround and seem to embrace each other, and are woven and unwoven and interwoven, like the heavenly hosts that gathered around Laura.
— from Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

Others might equal him in intelligence, in skill, in ready resource and sudden expedient; but he had not one to rival him in luck.
— from The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever

Vittoria, having put her hand to the plough, had drawn back; but Giulia had chosen the better part, and has attained the honour of being stigmatised in Romish records as "suspected of heretical pravity."
— from The Duchess of Trajetto by Anne Manning

"No need to swear it," returned Raffles, actually smiling.
— from Mr. Justice Raffles by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

In Richy and Sandy , in Robert, Richy, and Sandy , and in his earlier pastorals generally, we seem to see the poet struggling to rid himself of the conventional prejudices against painting rural nature in the real, and in favour of 'a golden-age rusticity' purely imaginary.
— from Allan Ramsay by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

Such is Red River, and such the scenes on which I gazed in wonder, as I rode by the side of my friend and fellow-clerk, McKenny, on the evening of my arrival at my new home.
— from Hudson Bay by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Moving their staffs in regular rhythm, and scarcely throwing us a glance, they pressed onwards with heavy tread and in single file.
— from Boyhood by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

'Well,' says he, 'what shall I read?' Read a section of the Novum Organum , or some other most difficult and abstruse thing, or a few sections from Okie's Physiology."
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes