We paused on the summit of a distant hill and took a final look and made a final farewell to the venerable city which had been such a good home to us.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

What struck Levin was that he could see through them all today, and from little, almost imperceptible signs knew the soul of each, and saw distinctly that they were all good at heart.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It rises up usually but with one dark green, thick and flat leaf, standing upon a short foot-stalk not above two fingers breadth; but when it flowers it may be said to bear a small slender stalk about four or five inches high, having but one leaf in the middle thereof, which is much divided on both sides into sometimes five or seven parts on a side, sometimes more; each of which parts is small like the middle rib, but broad forwards, pointed and round, resembling therein a half-moon, from whence it took the name; the uppermost parts or divisions being bigger than the lowest.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The turnkey takes a fixed look at him, and at last he says in a solemn manner, “Tventy,” he says, “I’ll trust you; you Won’t get your old friend into trouble.”
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The moon was not yet up when we came there; a few lights shone along the front of the fortress, and lower down a few lighted windows in the town; but it was all mighty still, and there seemed to be no guard upon the passage.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

As regards Adams’ statement that a forceps like ours was dug up in Pompeii one may ask, ‘Where is that forceps now?’
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

At last the conversation gradually settled on some of the topics at first lightly touched on: their past life, plans for the future, Pierre’s journeys and occupations, the war, and so on.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Then great tears fell, one by one, from her eyes; they flowed down her cheeks through a furrow, like a torrent through a bed which it has hollowed for itself.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The best Plays of this Kind are The Orphan, Venice Preserved, Alexander the Great, Theodosius, All for Love, Œdipus, Oroonoko, Othello 2 , &c. King Lear is an admirable Tragedy of the same Kind, as Shakespear wrote it; but as it is reformed according to the chymerical Notion of Poetical Justice, in my humble Opinion it has lost half its Beauty.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

She fled From her thoughts as from lepers; returned to old ways, And strove to keep occupied, filling her days With devotional duties.
— from Three Women by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Under a bank, in a pool crossed by a log and shaded by a tree, we found a drove of the speckled beauties at home, dozens of them a foot long, each moving lazily a little, their black backs relieved by their colored fins.
— from Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing by Charles Dudley Warner

The body was lying in the coffin, and the relatives took a farewell look at the features, and withdrew as the undertaker’s assistants advanced to screw down the lid.
— from Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented by William Tebb

O, I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake, Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honour.
— from Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

"I am to wear a brocade that came out this autumn from London, and papa says I look like a duchess when I have my grandmother's pearls."
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Walter, with all his fun, was not without some thoughtfulness, and fearing lest Bolax's wetting might injure his health, urged him to hurry home to change his clothes.
— from Bolax, Imp or Angel—Which? by Josephine Culpeper

Here he occasionally 112 rises to a fair level of literary merit, as for example in describing the evil omens that preceded and hastened the death of the patriot king Aristodemus, and again in relating the impious attack of the Gauls on Delphi and their overwhelming repulse.
— from Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History Selected from His Commentary on Pausanias' 'Description of Greece,' by James George Frazer

To a fellow like that, humanity is a democratic weakness, and matter he does not respect, unless it is eatable.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Such salad may be served to advantage for luncheons and other light meals.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences