So she reminded her brother of the freedom he had given her long since, and went on to ask him that he should allow her full enjoyment of the husband she had taken; since, before he started on the Russian war, he had given her the boon of marrying as she would; and that he should hold valid after the event what he had himself allowed to happen.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

“That's a pretty ring you have,” he said, touching a commonplace setting which adorned the hand holding the card he had given her.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Nor is he merely curious, for in his bright dark eye there is compassionate interest; and as he looks here and there, he seems to understand such wretchedness and to have studied it before.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Pindar mentions one Polymnastus also, a Colophonian, as distinguished for his skill in music: “Thou knowest the celebrated strains of Polymnastus, the Colophonian:” and some writers affirm that Homer was of that city.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

How much our memory of pictures colours the impressions of nature we receive is probably not suspected by us, but who could say how a scene would appear to him, had he never looked at a picture?
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Et erant ita per magicam artem dispositæ, ut quando aliqua regio Romano Imperio rebellis erat, statim imago illius provinciæ vertebat se contra illam; unde tintinnabulum resonabat quod pendebat ad collum; tuncque vates Capitolii qui erant custodes senatui, &c. He mentions an example of the Saxons and Suevi, who, after they had been subdued by Agrippa, again rebelled: tintinnabulum sonuit; sacerdos qui erat in speculo in hebdomada senatoribus nuntiavit: Agrippa marched back and reduced the—Persians, (Anonym.
— 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

For two days we toiled up this foul stream, striking constantly against the floating timber, or stopping to avoid those more dangerous obstacles, the snags, or sawyers, which are the hidden trunks of trees that have their roots below the tide.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

She went as Titania, he as Bully Bottom.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 2, February 1847 by Various

Isabella replied in a very sensible speech, telling him that, while she fully appreciated his services, and knew the rancour of his enemies, she was afraid that he had given some cause for complaint.
— from The Life of Columbus by Helps, Arthur, Sir

The unreasoning voice of the woman's nature within her had answered, though but partially, to the deep call of the man's; and now she missed more than she would admit to herself the tenderness that was gone.
— from The Crux: A Novel by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I shall begin with some personal experiences of a Scotch seer, who, according to his own accounts, has experienced some of the most dramatic and remarkable manifestations conceivable.
— from True Ghost Stories by Hereward Carrington

She thought he was using big words such as she was accustomed to hearing from her brother when he announced periodically his absurd and ridiculous resolutions, which he never by any chance put into practice.
— from Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Romain Rolland

From the beau ideal to the choice of a snuffer-dish, all came within her province, and was to be submitted, without appeal, to her instinctive sense of moral order.—Happy fruits of knowledge!—Happy those who can thus enlarge their intellectual dominion, and can vary eternally the dear delight of giving pain.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Maria Edgeworth

She went about the house a pathetic little figure, with big wistful eyes.
— from The Head Girl at the Gables by Angela Brazil

The doctor did give him some wine; and then, having left strict orders as to his treatment—Bridget and Thomas being now both in the house—went forth to some of his too much neglected patients.
— from Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope