Our suspense was short, for a break-up soon took place in the crowd, and the people came streaming out looking flushed and hot and bringing a quantity of bad air with them.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The Three stood calm and silent, And looked upon the foes, And a great shout of laughter From all the vanguard rose: And forth three chiefs came spurring
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

He knew the law even better than did the dogs that had known no other life, and he observed the law more punctiliously; but still there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
— from White Fang by Jack London

Why, yes, he said, and there is no harm; were it not that little by little this spirit of licence, finding a home, imperceptibly penetrates into manners and customs; whence, issuing with greater force, it invades contracts between man and E man, and from contracts goes on to laws and constitutions, in utter recklessness, ending at last, Socrates, by an overthrow of all rights, private as well as public.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Seeing that her mother was still praying she ran on tiptoe to the bed and, rapidly slipping one little foot against the other, pushed off her slippers and jumped onto the bed the countess had feared might become her grave.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Lakwa wrote to the Rana to throw off Ambaji’s yoke and expel his lieutenant; while Ambaji commanded his deputy to eject the Shenvi [24] Brahmans, 525 supporters of Lakwa, from all the lands in Mewar.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

A side door of the theatre opened suddenly and a shaft of light flew across the grassplots.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

A murmur of admiration ran through the room at the sudden outpouring like fire and lava flood from this human volcano, and its equally sudden cessation.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Sitting at table with the officers and tearing the fat savory mutton with his hands, down which the grease trickled, Pétya was in an ecstatic childish state of love for all men, and consequently of confidence that others loved him in the same way.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But if he had made up his mind to put up with this sort of life for a while, it was only on the plain understanding with his inner self that he would very soon change it all, and have things as he chose again.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Still, we cannot call this more than a seeming originality, because directly alongside of a tale we are surprised to trace in Shakespeare, or La Fontaine, (a principal debtor to Count Lucanor,) or some other admired author, we are as likely to find some story so aged, so thread-bare, so worn and torn and sapless with the use of centuries, that one is tempted to refer it back to the year 1.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

Hence the permanence of territorial limits in spite of lasting feuds, although territory was not invested in any particular inheriting family, but in a purely moral being called the clan or sept.
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

That is a plain Tale, it is recommended and received as such but Pamela is first a Series of Letters from a Girl to her Parents, which it is presumed are offered us as Originals, and then immediately we are told it is a Narrative which has it's Foundation in Truth , and Nature ; now what can any Man that would reduce this to the Language of his own Opinion and Judgment call it,
— from Pamela Censured by Anonymous

The system of Lamarck, for a moment popular on account of the philosophic ideas to which it gave support, could not maintain itself in lasting honor in science.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

The next day my friend sent a dozen well-selected books, but the old shoemaker never sought or looked for any assistance.
— from London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes

A long series of letters followed, and after much hesitation, the Queen finally abandoned her intention, the prospect of hot weather apparently proving to be too great a deterrent.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron

Occasionally, I was caught as I passed by some little girl with bandaged eyes, who, in order to recognise me, would feel my face, amid shouts of laughter from all the diners.
— from Nooks & Corners of Old Paris by Georges Cain

Just as each father among us here in England, according to his class and standard of living, fixes a standard for his son, saying, "When he earns so much he will be able to maintain himself," so the society, or the individual missionary, fixes the standard for converts.
— from Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions by Thomas Cochrane

Finally, let us deduce motives for consolation under the pressure of sorrow, and for the limitation of our wishes to the necessary subsistence of life, from "a greater than Solomon."
— from Female Scripture Biography, Volume II Including an Essay on What Christianity Has Done for Women by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox

This was such a long time ago that the court records about this have long since been destroyed, because humaneness demands that such traces shall only last for a very specific time, and this time is up.
— from My Life and My Efforts by Karl May