There was no one to picture the battle the union leaders were fighting—to hold this huge army in rank, to keep it from straggling and pillaging, to cheer and encourage and guide a hundred thousand people, of a dozen different tongues, through six long weeks of hunger and disappointment and despair.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

I remarked to him, as I rose to depart, that, in spite of the contrast and the wide differences between us two, les extremites se touchent (‘extremes meet,’ as I explained to him in Russian); so that maybe he was not so far from my final conviction as appeared.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When th’ sun did jump up, th’ moor went mad for joy, an’ I was in the midst of th’ heather, an’ I run like mad myself, shoutin’ an’ singin’.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When the Sultan of Persia saw the horse and its riders, he stopped short with astonishment and horror, and broke out into oaths and curses, which the Indian heard quite unmoved, knowing that he was perfectly safe from pursuit.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

they appeared much allarmed but saw that we were to near for them to escape by flight they therefore seated themselves on the ground, holding down their heads as if reconciled to die which the expected no doubt would be their fate; I took the elderly woman by the hand and raised her up repeated the word tab-babone and strip up my shirt sieve to sew her my skin; to prove to her the truth of the ascertion that I was a white man for my face and hads which have been constantly exposed to the sun were quite as dark as their own.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

When Higgins excused his indifference to young women on the ground that they had an irresistible rival in his mother, he gave the clue to his inveterate old-bachelordom.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

The leaves, but especially the root, taken fresh in Summer-time, beaten or made into a poultice or salve with old hog’s grease, and applied to the places pained with the sciatica, to continue thereon four hours if it be on a man, and two hours on a woman; the place afterwards bathed with wine and oil mixed together, and then wrapped with wool or skins, after they have sweat a little, will assuredly cure not only the same disease in hips, knuckle-bone, or other of the joints, as gout in the hands or feet, but all other old griefs of the head, (as inveterate rheums,) and other parts of the body that are hard to be cured.
— 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

He had done his duty to the unhappy young woman, by instructing his solicitor to spare no expense in tracing her, and in restoring her once more to medical care, and he was now only anxious to do his duty towards Miss Fairlie and towards her family, in the same plain, straightforward way.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

This circumstance, added to the length of his legs, which were of unusual extent, enabled him with much ease to keep some half-dozen paces in advance of his companion, to whom he occasionally turned with an impatient jerk of the head: as if reproaching her tardiness, and urging her to greater exertion.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

And I said to her as I ran to meet her:— “Oh, I am happy!
— from Cuore (Heart): An Italian Schoolboy's Journal by Edmondo De Amicis

"You will then be able to know what some people think of us Scouts:— "DEAR MR TREMATON, "I must apologise for the slight delay that has arisen in replying to your letter of the 2nd.
— from The Scouts of Seal Island by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

No less remarkable than her achievement in raising herself step by step to the highest pinnacle of power is the manner in which she maintains her position.
— from Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by Péter Vay

I am a part of the tender landscape to him, and I realize he is looking at me tenderly.
— from Woman by Magdeleine Marx

He boxed the poor monkey on the side of the head, and it ran chattering to the end of its line.
— from The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna; Or, The Crew That Won by Gertrude W. Morrison

As before stated, the threatened advance of the 21st convinced me that the enemy's retreat was imminent, and so I advised Bee; but there was not time to send General Wharton to him after I reached Polignac's camp.
— from Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor

Only 60,000 of these, however, are in readiness for service.
— from Defenseless America by Hudson Maxim

We were perfectly willing to come to terms here, and it rested with the peace delegates whether we went on to Lhasa or not.
— from The Unveiling of Lhasa by Edmund Candler

Archy turned to him and involuntarily removed his hat—so noble, so venerable was this august man.
— from The Rock of the Lion by Molly Elliot Seawell

All that he asked in return was that the whites should send him two of their great guns and a grindstone.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 02 (of 15), American (2) by Charles Morris