"Yes," he added earnestly, "I read that, and I think to myself, 'She has a sorrow, she is lonely, she would find comfort in true love.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

In a short time she, with frightful cries, came riding by, as swift as the wind on a wild tom-cat, nor was it long after that before the little man re-appeared.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Again the holy fires on altars burn; And once again the rav’nous birds return, Or from the dark recesses where they lie, Or from another quarter of the sky; With filthy claws their odious meal repeat, And mix their loathsome ordures with their meat.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

The contract was for three years’ service for a total compensation of one hundred dollars and expenses, but Walker devoted so much of his attention to law studies that the Waynesville store was finally closed for debt, and at the end of his contract term young Thomas was obliged to accept a lot of second-hand law books in lieu of other payment.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

What I have therefore here to say, only regards the vain Part of the Sex, whom for certain Reasons, which the Reader will hereafter see at large, I shall distinguish by the Name of Idols .
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But that does not say that the dream actually furnished the materials out of which the idea of the double or the soul was first constructed; it might have been applied afterwards to the phenomena of dreams, ecstasy and possession, without having been derived from them.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

It was bad enough that he was not to be permitted to take any decisive steps in Siberia without first consulting and coming to an agreement with the local authorities,—the governor of Tobolsk, the lieutenant-governor of Irkutsk, and the voivode of Yakutsk.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

But although my deceased father of happy memory, Grangousier, had bent his best endeavours to make me profit in all perfection and political knowledge, and that my labour and study was fully correspondent to, yea, went beyond his desire, nevertheless, as thou mayest well understand, the time then was not so proper and fit for learning as it is at present, neither had I plenty of such good masters as thou hast had.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

“Mrs. Pontellier, you are cruel,” he said, with feeling, closing his eyes and resting his head back in his chair.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

The street was formerly closed at both ends, and the Jews were confined to that quarter.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

“Yes!” said she, with forced calmness.
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

You know from your experience of juries (I mean no disparagement to you or them) how much depends page 23 p. 23 upon effect ; and you are apt to attribute to others, a desire to use, for purposes of deception and self-interest, the very instruments which you, in pure honesty and honour of purpose, and with a laudable desire to do your utmost for your client, know the temper and worth of so well, from constantly employing them yourselves.
— from Bardell v. Pickwick by Charles Dickens

"] Note 205 ( return ) [ A charge sounded within: FERNEZE cuts the cord; the floor of the gallery gives way, and BARABAS falls into a caldron placed in a pit.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

Yet numerous were the falls and collisions that took place, and it appeared to be fully understood that, should a rider be pipped, his loose horse and empty saddle should be the lawful prize of the lucky shipmate who first captured them, and sometimes you could see half-a-dozen or more Jacks trying to board the said prize from both sides and ends of the unfortunate quadruped at one and the same time.
— from Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion by G. Hamilton-Browne

[1] The spot where Fort Casimir (or Trinity) once stood, is now covered with water, the Delaware flowing over it.
— from Once Upon a Time in Delaware by Katharine Pyle

He looked the books over with an air of wisdom, listened to Bert’s talk in silence, and presently drew up at the desk where Catherine sat waiting for customers.
— from The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted by Katharine Ellis Barrett

“As you say it will be dark soon and we might as well go back.” “Get your rod then and we’ll start.” Grant returned to the spot where he had been standing when Fred called him, and picking up his rod soon joined his companion.
— from The Go Ahead Boys in the Island Camp by Ross Kay

Poor Augustus Sheppard was formal, constrained, and prosaic; he had not even the dignity of austerity.
— from The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various

Lettie stood with flushed cheeks and brightened eyes.
— from The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence