He said he had seen a similar thing at Tübingen, and laid considerable stress on the blowing-out of the candle.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I thought of nothing but whether it might not be Colonel Brandon come back again; so I said to Sir John, I do think I hear a carriage; perhaps it is Colonel Brandon come back again"— Elinor was obliged to turn from her, in the middle of her story, to receive the rest of the party; Lady Middleton introduced the two strangers; Mrs. Dashwood and Margaret came down stairs at the same time, and they all sat down to look at one another, while Mrs. Jennings continued her story as she walked through the passage into the parlour, attended by Sir John.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Then does she twirl and twine, a pastoral nymph of good family, through the mazes of the dance.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In heaven, says Swedenborg, we shall see things as they are.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

It bore no semblance to a town, and had nothing about it to suggest that it had ever been a town.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

After the labor of nine months, and the debates of twenty-five sessions, they attained the advantage and glory of the reunion of the Greeks.
— 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

When long delays made this unlikely, he summoned the Assembly to ask for more funds.
— from Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

I sometimes think “a thousand and one” must be an unlucky number.
— from Neither Here Nor There by Oliver Herford

Ted smiled also, and flushed with pleasure, since Mr. Hirsch's praise was worth having; and so, then and there, almost as if some chemical affinity had manifested itself between the molecules composing his brain and Mr. Hirsch's, he made up his mind to try and follow his example.
— from A Sovereign Remedy by Flora Annie Webster Steel

I think I have given evidence, in every form in which patriotism is ever subjected to a test, and I trust, whatever evil may be in store for us by those who wage war on the Constitution and our rights under it, that I shall be able to turn at least to the past and say, "Up to that [pg 545] period when I was declining into the grave, I served a Government I loved, and served it with my whole heart."
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

In this case the middle row of trees should not be quite evenly continuous, but perhaps five or six trees and then a gap, formed by leaving out one tree, in order to allow the traffic to move from side to side of the road.
— from Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by E. T. (Ernest Thomas) Cook

They shed tears as they assisted us to load the boat and bade us farewell.
— from The Wanderers; Or, Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by William Henry Giles Kingston

She was ever ready to accord sympathy to all, taking an earnest interest in the most insignificant, and so humble in her greatness that her friends looked upon her as a divinity among women.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

And I saw one stretch to a torch and cover it with his hand.
— from The Green Helmet and Other Poems by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

A choice which, in these days, more than ever perhaps before, is one between Page 215 [Pg 215] such things as these and the money-getting which cares so little for them.
— from Stained Glass Work: A text-book for students and workers in glass by Christopher Whall