Chapter 18 They heard the sound of steps and a man’s voice, then a woman’s voice and laughter, and immediately thereafter there walked in the expected guests: Sappho Shtoltz, and a young man beaming with excess of health, the so-called Vaska.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And whence had you that happiest gift of brightening every topic with an unsought gayety, quiet but irresistible, so that even gloomy spirits felt your sunshine and did not shrink from it?
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

—The example given should be sufficient proof.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

The swell flashes a rum prad: the e gentleman sports a fine horse.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

At last the Egerton gave signs of returning life.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Of Shakespeare's education we know little, except that for a few years he probably attended the endowed grammar school at Stratford, where he picked up the "small Latin and less Greek" to which his learned friend Ben Jonson refers.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Jewels , 9. are clear Stones, as Gemmæ , 9. sunt pellucidi Lapilli, The Diamond white ut Adamas candidus, The Ruby red, Rubinus rubeus, The Sapphire blue, Sapphirus cæruleus, The Emerald green, Smaragdus viridis, The Jacinth yellow, &c. Hyacynthus luteus, &c.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

That day, I do not feel quite strong enough to encounter great surprises; so my visit to the lodge is deferred until the next morning.
— from My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Wilkie Collins

Days passed, during which Cleve Verney paid stolen visits at Malory, more cautiously managed than ever; and nearly every afternoon did the good people of Cardyllian see him walk the green, to and fro, with the Etherage girls, so that the subject began to be canvassed very gravely, and even Miss Charity was disposed to think that he certainly did like Agnes, and confided to her friend, Mrs. Brindley, of "The Cottage," that if Aggie married, she should give up .
— from The Tenants of Malory, Volume 1 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Face to face through all his history man has stood with Nature, and to each generation she has opened some new page of her inexhaustible story.
— from Under the Trees and Elsewhere by Hamilton Wright Mabie

For the dating of the earlier group some evidence may be derived from the results of excavations at Syracuse, founded from Corinth in 735 B.C. In its earliest cemeteries, as also at Megara Hyblaea, numerous Proto-Corinthian vases of the earlier class have been found.
— from History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2) by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters

And equally diverse was the merry nod and smile of Sir Robert to each gaping shouting group of little ones, from the stately distant courtesy with which Edward returned the popular salutations.
— from The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge