The pretty lady came here one night—long ago—oh, so long ago," said the boy, shaking his head, with a face whose solemnity was expressive of some prodigious lapse of time.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

And far, far away a scarcely perceptible line of the railway, running aslant, and on it the smoke of a train, but no sound was heard.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Usually, type ftp at your system prompt, login on the remote system, and ask for the file you want to receive.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

By a Senate's strife of tongues, By a Premier's sullen pride, Louring on the changing tide; By dread Thurlow's powers to awe Rhetoric, blasphemy and law; By the turbulent ocean— A Nation's commotion, By the harlot-caresses Of borough addresses, By days few and evil, (Thy portion, poor devil!)
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

‘My secretary would have to make himself master of the foreign policy of the world, as it is mirrored in the newspapers; to run his eye over all accounts of public meetings, all leading articles, and accounts of the proceedings of public bodies; and to make notes of anything which it appeared to him might be made a point of, in any little speech upon the question of some petition lying on the table, or anything of that kind.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

‘Dic, hospes, Spartae, nos te vidisse iacentes, Dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur.’ Transl.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Feeling his way to his sofa, he lighted a match, and saw Petya lying on the sofa.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But the Spanish people learned of the proposed sale and their indignation was great.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

"Oh yes," said Philip; "lots of them, besides the Greek stories.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

In the act of sitting down she paused, leant over the table, and with a quick movement swept off the Hollands bottle.
— from Starvecrow Farm by Stanley John Weyman

She pondered long over those grandchildren, and derived a grim pleasure from the thought of them.
— from Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan

No, indeed; she has told us that she saw plainly later on that, if just then she had chosen to follow her own feelings and wishes, instead of obeying God’s command, all her life would have been altered, and she would never have done the glorious work He had planned for her.
— from Catherine Booth — a Sketch by Mildred Duff

The Jews of Spain had long been restless under a government which was so strongly ecclesiastical in its sympathies: persecuting laws oppressed them, and they could hardly even in secret practise their religion.
— from The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by William Holden Hutton

i, p. 121: "Early in the morning of the first day of October last year (1874), several persons living on the north side of the main island perceived, as they thought, a cloud coming over from the northwest, which drew nearer and nearer to the shore, on reach [ 298] ing which it divided into two parts, one of which went eastward, and the other westward, gradually falling upon the land.
— from The Butterfly Book A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

At first my efforts were in vain, but at last I discovered what I sought, namely an entry that a young woman named Gabrielle Engledue, single, aged twenty-one, of unknown parentage, had died of heart trouble at No. 9 Stretton Street, Park Lane, on the night of November the Seventh, the body having been cremated five days later!
— from The Stretton Street Affair by William Le Queux

[Pg 259] its fill of the gay spectacle, proceeded leisurely onwards through the streets in the direction of the meadows where the troops had encamped for the night; and when we arrived there we found them all drawn up in companies, presenting, in spite of all drawbacks in the matter of arms and accoutrements, a right goodly and imposing show.
— from In Taunton town : a story of the rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth in 1685 by Evelyn Everett-Green