To tell how Kit then hustled into the box all sorts of things which could, by no remote contingency, be wanted, and how he left out everything likely to be of the smallest use; how a neighbour was persuaded to come and stop with the children, and how the children at first cried dismally, and then laughed heartily on being promised all kinds of impossible and unheard-of toys; how Kit’s mother wouldn’t leave off kissing them, and how Kit couldn’t make up his mind to be vexed with her for doing it; would take more time and room than you and I can spare.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

If Erik were good-looking, would you love me, Christine?" She rose in her turn, put her two trembling arms round the young man's neck and said: "Oh, my betrothed of a day, if I did not love you, I would not give you my lips!
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

[Pg 65] Two classes of rugs from the Caucasus have been referred to as Russian, the Yourucks and Kazaks.
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

Lighting a wax taper and removing the yam-leaf covering from the mouth of the jar containing “holy” water, the Pawang now “inspected” the water in the jar by gazing intently into its depths, and re-extinguished the taper.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

But try and remember that you are only a dethroned prince now, George, my boy; and be quiet whilst the tempest lasts.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Bob, if you and Tom are ready, take your places.”
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

He goes downstairs; you will tear up your sheets, little by little you will make of them a rope, then you will climb out of your window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Soon after the prorogation, July the 9th, steps preparatory to a removal to York began to be taken.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Well, step by step, with agile feet, Our ramblers, with a proper sense Of what was due to ancestry, Refused to yield; for one Goat, she Could claim that Polyphemus laid Her sire at Galatea's feet; The other, just as boldly, said [Pg 732] Her dam was Amalthæa sweet— The goat who gave her milk to Jove, Who rules below, and reigns above.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Noble knight,” she added, turning to her rescuer, “to whom I have too long delayed owning a debt of gratitude that I can never repay, art thou in very deed Sir Bertrand du Guesclin, who did his devoir so manfully in the tournament at Rennes two years agone, and overthrew all comers?”
— from Under the Flag of France: A Tale of Bertrand du Guesclin by David Ker

“It occurs to me, M. le Marquis, in view of your readiness to assume responsibility, that you must believe justification for the deed which is not apparent to myself.”
— from Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution by Rafael Sabatini

But, saving the whispering of her name, what the trees say cannot be understood; and they alone remember the years of Sië-Thao.
— from Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn

The lining of the coate, and the petit toies are referred to your greate discretion, provided there want nothing when it comes to be put on.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

'I hope you won't let yourself be tempted to anything, Robert, that you don't see the end of,' she said; but so gently that her husband's heart rose.
— from At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

"Fifteen hundred dollars, and papers worth twice that amount," repeated the young man, as he leaned upon the rail and looked down into the water.
— from George at the Wheel; Or, Life in the Pilot-House by Harry Castlemon

"But I believed in you then, and replied that you had been engaged by Mr. Warwick to clear up a mystery which surrounded my uncle.
— from Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent by John Thomas McIntyre

The modifications suggested in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury are recommended to your favorable consideration.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The fellaheen keep one or two, and rear the young bulls.
— from The Khedive's Country by George Manville Fenn