There was something childish in his vexation, and it struck me as ridiculous and pitiable... “Here they are,” he said.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

She made a repelling gesture with her hand, and stood a perfect picture of prohibition, at full length, in the dark frame of the doorway.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The victor dropped a tear over his grave: his body, with royal pomp, was conveyed to the mausoleum which he had erected at Boursa; and his son Mousa, after receiving a rich present of gold and jewels, of horses and arms, was invested by a patent in red ink with the kingdom of Anatolia.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Some of the latter had already been to see me, and reported strange things of my beauty, behavior, and good sense.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

If the reason of the thing had not spoken loudly enough, the miserable examples of the several administrations constructed upon the idea of systematic discord would be enough to frighten them from such, monstrous and ruinous conjunctions.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

— solution The only possible minimum solutions are shown in the two diagrams, where it will be seen that only sixteen moves are required to perform the feat.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

If she did not marry Percy Gryce, the day might come when she would have to be civil to such men as Rosedale.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

"When I was younger," she observed, "I loved nothing so much as romances.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'll be sure and wear the nice flannels you sent, Marmee, and read carefully the books father has marked.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Following this row with the extra stitch, make a row without either increase or intake and begin the intakes in the next row, joining the two last loops of each row together by a knot.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Of course, he would not stoop to ask the loan of the boat, however much he wanted it, from a boy he disliked so much as Robert.
— from Brave and Bold; Or, The Fortunes of Robert Rushton by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

When Mr. Preston had taken his seat— Mr. Ames rose, and addressed the Chair as follows: Mr. Chairman: I entertain the hope, perhaps a rash one, that my strength will hold me out to speak a few minutes.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Suddenly making a rush for it, in the foam he made away with the bait.
— from Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

S. Burian Church does not stand on the site of the old settlement of Buriena; that is about a mile south-east, at Bosliven, where the "sanctuary" remains about some mounds and ruins.
— from A Book of Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

She has five double chins that she shakes all the while, but then she has stiff bristles, like a man’s, growing on them, and her knitting-needles and her words are all sharp as la Signora Maria Anne R-o-o-g-eers, I doubt not.
— from Mae Madden by Mary Murdoch Mason

6. Ignatius was bishop of the church at Antioch, and suffered martyrdom at Rome by exposure to wild beasts A.D. 107, or according to some accounts, A.D. 116.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

A very reasonable question, especially as to the mermaid pie, since mermaids are rather scarce articles in the market.
— from The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender by Emily Sarah Holt

It is a little sad to know that one has watched the launching of the last wooden ship that shall go out with stately masts and rounding sails from the Haven Under the Hill.
— from On Old-World Highways A Book of Motor Rambles in France and Germany and the Record of a Pilgrimage from Land's End to John O'Groats in Britain by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy