Then a bird pipes up, another follows, and soon the pipings develop into a jubilant riot of music.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Well, in him the brain powers survived the physical death; though it would seem that memory was not all complete.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of the Salpêtrière, and who had mounted to the Barrière d’Italie by way of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris disappeared.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

At this they were mightily amazed and feared lest the thing should get wind; wherefore, burying the head, without word said, they privily departed Messina, having taken order how they should withdraw thence, and betook themselves to Naples.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Gomara also says, that Pedro de Irico was the person left behind in command of Vera Cruz.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

PLUMPER, a single vote at an election, not a “split ticket.” PODGY, drunk; dumpy, short and fat.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

She hung on, striving to press down with her teeth to the great vein where his life-blood bubbled.
— from White Fang by Jack London

“Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow,” said the Prince, “do as I command you.”
— from The Happy Prince, and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

And we will see the painted dolphins sleep Cradled by murmuring halcyons on the rocks Where Proteus in quaint suit of green pastures his monstrous flocks.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

I should hate to see them pulled down myself.
— from Coelebs: The Love Story of a Bachelor by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young

In good sooth, the parliament did kindly to provide his Majestie so seasonably with money, for there have been no lack of good livinge, shews, sights, and banquetings from morn to eve.
— from The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt

Should the patient die during the operation, F.'s professional reputation would, of course, die with him; but he felt it his duty to waive all selfish considerations, and give W. that one chance, feeble as it seemed, for his life.
— from The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Dame Shirley

One afternoon when I returned to my rooms, from which I had been absent since the previous day, I heard from the concierge that a visitor awaited me.
— from A Chair on the Boulevard by Leonard Merrick

He would, too, if he could, shift the popular displeasure, which he has spoken of, from 35 Aaron Burr to another quarter.
— from The Trial of Aaron Burr by Joseph P. (Joseph Plunkett) Brady

He has friends who will avenge him; enemies Who will hate God now with impunity, Missing the old coercive: would you send A soul straight to perdition, dying frank An atheist?"
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

A raving maniac in a well-ordered asylum, where padded walls and careful tendance do much to save the poor disordered soul from tearing its way through the frail casing of diseased flesh and bone, is a sight to shudder at, not to see!
— from In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir

It was interesting to see the primitive devices for weighing.
— from In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr