Onward the whole day they flew through the air like a winged arrow, yet more slowly than usual, for they had their sister to carry.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Meanwhile, I am a prey to fearful anxiety, and am suffering the uttermost from the absence of what I love best in this world, above life, above duty, above everything.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

"Hear, hear!" said the undergraduates from the corner, where they were talking privately about the pups.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

One third of it thou canst well spare to us for thy entertainment and that of thy train, for thou art very rich; one third of it thou canst better spare for charity, for, Bishop, I hear that thou art a hard master to those beneath thee and a close hoarder of gains that thou couldst better and with more credit to thyself give to charity than spend upon thy own likings.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

If we send them up for trial, there will be great trouble for the gentry of the district, and no one will give you any reward for it, sir.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

But that warmth of heart, strong sensibility, and facility of forming attachments; the force with which they subdue me; my cruel sufferings when obliged to break them; the innate benevolence I cherished towards my fellow-creatures; the ardent love I bear to great virtues, to truth and justice, the horror in which I hold evil of every kind; the impossibility of hating, of injuring or wishing to injure anyone; the soft and lively emotion I feel at the sight of whatever is virtuous, generous and amiable; can these meet in the same mind with the depravity which without scruple treads under foot the most pleasing of all our duties?
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I can take no excuses, and we will have Demodocus to sing to us; for there is no bard like him whatever he may choose to sing about.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

This was of great service to us, for they were angry enough to proceed to its destruction at once, and it was fortunate they did not.
— from The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel by Teresa, of Avila, Saint

It is one of the ironies of plant-nomenclature when we have so few plant names saved to us from the picturesque and often musical speech of the American Indians, that the lovely Cherokee Rose, Indian of name, is a Chinese Rose.
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

Heavy bodies are sometimes thrown up from the ground ( Fig. 51 ), and at other times similar heavy masses are, apparently because of their inertia, more deeply imbedded in the earth.
— from Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader by William Herbert Hobbs

And if I may pursue this subject farther I would suggest that the whole matter of imaginative literature depends upon this faculty of seeing the universe, from the æonian pebble of the wayside to the raw suburban street as something new, unheard of, marvellous, finally, miraculous.
— from Far Off Things by Arthur Machen

When they shut themselves up from the world to worship God in prayers and hymns, they found that, without working, without hard work either of head or hands, they could not even be good men.
— from Town and Country Sermons by Charles Kingsley

Are there not Sunday-schools who have such material they have outgrown or laid aside, and which they can send to us for the dark-skinned children of the South?
— from The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 1, January, 1880 by Various

Assuredly not in that of substituting the utile for the dulce , in any eyes but those of almanac-makers. Let all lovers of spring, therefore, be fully persuaded that, for the first fortnight in June, they are living in May.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

For instance, in 1850 Congress demanded information as to illegal searches, and President Fillmore's report showed the uncomfortable fact that, of the ten American ships wrongly detained by English men-of-war, nine were proven red-handed slavers.
— from The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870 by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Taking this for granted, we saw a great crowd of people swimming towards us from the houses without any suspicion.
— from Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) Ober