He told his mother that the time was now come for him to go away upon his travels also; so she requested him to take the can to the well for water, that she might bake a cake for him.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Beautiful as Mrs. Kenwigs looked when she was dressed though, and so stately that you would have supposed she had a cook and housemaid at least, and nothing to do but order them about, she had a world of trouble with the preparations; more, indeed, than she, being of a delicate and genteel constitution, could have sustained, had not the pride of housewifery upheld her.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The demand of such countries for corn may frequently become so great and so urgent, that a small state in their neighbourhood, which happened at the same time to be labouring under some degree of dearth, could not venture to supply them without exposing itself to the like dreadful calamity.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

It is certain that a vague and indistinct desire to please the handsome officer animated them all, that his splendid uniform was the target of all their coquetries, and that from the moment he presented himself, there existed among them a secret, suppressed rivalry, which they hardly acknowledged even to themselves, but which broke forth, none the less, every instant, in their gestures and remarks.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

TO THE SON OF CRONOS, MOST HIGH (4 lines) (ll. 1-3) I will sing of Zeus, chiefest among the gods and greatest, all-seeing, the lord of all, the fulfiller who whispers words of wisdom to Themis as she sits leaning towards him.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

In the second place, these ancestors were not men in the proper sense of the word, but animals or vegetables, or perhaps mixed beings in which the animal or vegetable element predominated: "In the Alcheringa," say Spencer and Gillen, "lived ancestors who, in the native mind, are so intimately associated with the animals or plants the name of which they bear that an Alcheringa man of, say, the kangaroo totem may sometimes be spoken of either as a man-kangaroo or a kangaroo-man.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together.
— from Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry

"Will you please bring the tea, Alfred," she said in a charming voice of that pure, bell-like tone which has been Nature's most precious gift to but a few of the greatest actresses.
— from Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc

411 "The 'effalunt' sat up, looking as much in earnest as any of them, and said soberly to me,— "'I gif you my wort it is so.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

She forced a wan smile to her rigid face, and added: “Then, like the Arabs, some night we'll fold our tents and silently steal away from old Stafford.
— from The Redemption of Kenneth Galt by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

They may be entirely free, or cohere in aggregations, or be attached to a supporting surface by a slender stalk, which may ramify and bear a little siliceous case or "frustule" at the end of each branch.
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

TURBULENT TIMES AND SOCIAL STORMS One of the most singular, as well as undignified, experiences of Lincoln is closely involved in the most important measures of his life.
— from The Wonderful Story of Lincoln And the Meaning of His Life for the Youth and Patriotism of America by C. M. (Charles McClellan) Stevens

A magnificent attempt was made to carry her to a sheltered spot, but though there were so many of them she was too heavy.
— from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

The most recent zoölogical authorities enumerate two thousand and sixty-seven species of mammals, or, as they are commonly called, beasts.
— from The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science: A Discourse by William Denton

He was extremely unmethodical; it was a four years' struggle on Nicolay's part and mine to get him to adopt some systematic rules.
— from Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 2 (of 2) by William Henry Herndon