“But it’s so ridiculous to have a redheaded Elaine,” mourned Anne.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

From this time they sacrificed using the names of the gods, and from the Pelasgians the Hellenes afterwards received them: but when the several gods had their birth, or whether they all were from the beginning, and of what form they are, they did not learn till yesterday, as it were, or the day before: for Hesiod and Homer I suppose were four hundred years before my time and not more, and these are they who made a theogony for the Hellenes and gave the titles to the gods and distributed to them honours and arts, and set forth their forms: but the poets who are said to have been before these men were really in my opinion after them.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

Maximilian sprang down the staircase, and threw his arms round his father’s neck; but suddenly he recoiled, and placed his right hand on Morrel’s breast.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I mean it is awful how many of your sort are toadies hanging about rich men.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

They then delivered from Harald, the Danish king, the invitation to Harald Grafeld, his foster-son, to come to him and receive investiture of the fiefs he and his brothers before him had formerly held in Denmark; and appointing a meeting in Jutland.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Nangháil ang íyang pánit kay gikagid, The skin turned hard and rough because of her skin infection.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She threw her arms round him.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They had already rounded the point, and were wondering at our absence.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The inhabitants of the country on the Monongahela, the Illinois, the Minnesota, the Yellowstone, and Osage, are as directly concerned in the security of the Lower Mississippi as are those who dwell on its very banks in Louisiana; and now that the nation has recovered its possession, this generation of men will make a fearful mistake if they again commit its charge to a people liable to misuse their position, and assert, as was recently done, that, because they dwelt on the banks of this mighty stream, they had a right to control its navigation.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

It would be bad to have a run of them just as term begins.
— from Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

One, the President and treasurer, had a ready means to clear himself and dispose for ever of the scandal—that means, apart from any scandal, was his mere, immediate duty,—viz., to have his balance verified.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson

There are some thousands of them here and in the neighbourhood, nearly all shopkeepers, and outside the west gate, and along the main trail on each side, they have a regular village.
— from Notes of a Journey on the Upper Mekong, Siam by H. Warington (Herbert Warington) Smyth

As the Prince rose from his knees touched the Crown on his father's head and kissed his left cheek in the the formal manner prescribed, the King rose, threw his arms round his son's neck for a moment and then took his hand and shook it warmly.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

The cavern that was revealed to them had a rock floor and had been hollowed out by running water in ages past.
— from The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall

If we find that Frederick improved the lot of his subjects in a remarkable degree, or that he invented beneficial institutions, or devised a system by which the future of government in Prussia was assured and progress made easy, then we shall have to concede to him a right to the title of Great other than that which conquest may confer.
— from Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia by William Fiddian Reddaway

If he is unfortunate enough to have a religion so petty that it can be insulted (any man is as welcome to insult my religion, if he can, as he is to insult the universe) I claim the right to insult it to my heart's content, if I choose, provided I do not compel him to come and hear me.
— from The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet by Bernard Shaw