I shall wear,’ added Richard, taking off his hat again and looking hard at it, as if he were only deterred by pecuniary considerations from spurning it with his foot, ‘I shall wear this emblem of woman’s perfidy, in remembrance of her with whom I shall never again thread the windings of the mazy; whom I shall never more pledge in the rosy; who, during the short remainder of my existence, will murder the balmy.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

A golden chain, that flashed and glowed With gems the God of Wind bestowed: Mahendra gave a glorious string Of fairest pearls to deck the king, The skies with acclamation rang, The gay nymphs danced, the minstrels sang.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Leonidas, and his three hundred companions, devoted their lives at Thermopylæ; but the education of the infant, the boy, and the man, had prepared, and almost insured, this memorable sacrifice; and each Spartan would approve, rather than admire, an act of duty, of which himself and eight thousand of his fellow-citizens were equally capable.
— 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

She was always ready to go skating, walking; always content to hear his discourses on the great things he was going to do, the distressed poor whom he would defend against the Unjust Rich, the speeches he would make at Banquets, the inexactitudes of popular thought which he would correct.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Then Dr. Cathcart came back to the forbidden subject with a rush that made the others jump.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

" Astonished and shocked at so unlover-like a speech, she was almost ready to cry out, "Lord!
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The commonest utterances of the commonest citizens in the time of the Colour Revolt seem to have been suffused with a richer tinge of word or thought; and to that era we are even now indebted for our finest poetry and for whatever rhythm still remains in the more scientific utterance of these modern days.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Plans of greater moment have leaked through stone walls, and revealed their projectors.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

And he gave one hundred sous without any reason to the waiter.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Stafford's face swelled with a rage that threatened to bring on apoplexy.
— from The Two-Gun Man by Charles Alden Seltzer

We shared out some water and rested till the evening, and then we took to our oars again.
— from Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat

He was a good geometrician, and well skilled in various branches of literature and science; but as an author he only published a curious treatise, to attempt to prove that Stonehenge was a Roman temple.
— from A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Robert Williams

Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her pet: ‘Dinah’s our cat.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

" And Stuyvesant, who, in instant alarm, had impulsively started, was again recalled to himself, and, hastily turning back, spoke aloud: "Stuyvesant my name is.
— from Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila by Charles King

So we all returned to where Willie Hercus still remained, and wondered what he could mean by calling us back.
— from The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands by Robert Leighton

His controversial works reveal a learning, a wisdom, a breadth of view, a foresight, a large-hearted charity, joined to the most intense conviction on the points which made him a separatist, which are rarely to be found in a great theological champion in any age of the world.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various