She pointed out his bed-chamber upon the same level as the saloon and dining-room, and informed me that he retired to rest at three, got up at two, and employed himself a long time over his toilette; that he never went to sleep without a pair of pistols and a dagger by his side, and that he never ate animal food.
— from The Vampyre; a Tale by John William Polidori

3. The modern steamship advances upon a still and overshadowed sea with a pulsating tremor of her frame, an occasional clang in her depths, as if she had an iron heart in her iron body.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Yet, plain as Mrs. Brown's views were now come out, I had not the heart, or spirit to open my eyes to them: still I could not part with my dependence on that beldam, so much did I think myself hers, soul and body: or rather, I sought to deceive myself with the continuation of my good opinion of her, and choose to wait the worst at her hands, sooner than be turned out to starve in the streets, without a penny of money or a friend to apply to these fears were my folly.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

This reflection kept me perplexed and longing to know really and truly the whole life and wondrous deeds of our famous Spaniard, Don Quixote of La Mancha, light and mirror of Manchegan chivalry, and the first that in our age and in these so evil days devoted himself to the labour and exercise of the arms of knight-errantry, righting wrongs, succouring widows, and protecting damsels of that sort that used to ride about, whip in hand, on their palfreys, with all their virginity about them, from mountain to mountain and valley to valley—for, if it were not for some ruffian, or boor with a hood and hatchet, or monstrous giant, that forced them, there were in days of yore damsels that at the end of eighty years, in all which time they had never slept a day under a roof, went to their graves as much maids as the mothers that bore them.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Nay, even by the time that the ambassadors arrived, Sosibius was already prepared for every eventuality.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Mr Inspector speedily returning down the wooden stairs, with a police constable, Lightwood asked him if he had seen his friend leave them?
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

A.T. Stewart was a poor Irish boy; and he paid taxes on a million and a half dollars of income, per year.
— from The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

She stepped into the vehicle as if she were a princess and accustomed all her life to go to Court, smiling graciously on the footman at the door and on Sir Pitt, who followed her into the carriage.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Near the site of the ancient city is the present town of Saida, with a population of about 5,000.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Home, home she went, and plied the loom, And Jesus' poor arrayed.
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by George MacDonald

Now a promise between man and man can only be expressed in words or any other outward signs; whereas a promise can be made to God by the mere inward thought, since according to 1 Kings 16:7, "Man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart."
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Sauntering idly on the pavement on the sunny side of the street was a policeman.
— from East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

He had found her a very dignified lady, and this unexpected turn reminded him that she was a poetess as well as a duchess.
— from Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various

We increase our pity for Catherine because she was a princess.
— from The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude

He was always gentle and kind, he was as lavish with her as though he were a king, and she was as lavish and prodigally generous as though she were a princess.
— from The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by Fox, John, Jr.

Not only are there many beautiful species which are peculiar to mountains,—alpine Gentians, yellow, blue, and purple; alpine Rhododendrons, alpine Primroses and Cowslips, alpine Lychnis, Colu
— from The Beauties of Nature, and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir

"Dost thou remember how thou saidst to me that I was no fit mate for you peasants—and now see what a pass things have come to....
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

She was a poor scholar, and the toil was great.
— from Bessie Costrell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

He had to be satisfied with a payment of two millions of florins for two years.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay