“Franz introduced me to her at Rome,” replied Albert.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Number two.’ ‘Mr. Traddles has a rising reputation among the lawyers, I believe?’ said I. ‘Well, sir,’ returned the waiter, ‘probably he has, sir; but I am not aware of it myself.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

They have a regular romp and play, and all the fun possible for an hour.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

" With him were associated Crémieux, a Jew; Ledru-Rollin, the historian, a Red Republican; Arago, the astronomer; Hypolite Carnot, son of Lazare Carnot, Member of the Directory, father of the future president; General Casaignac, who was made governor of Algeria; Garnier-Pagès, who a second time became, in 1870, member of a Provisional Government for the defence of Paris; and several others.
— from France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

He says:—“Their work was of the hardest and rudest, rising at four and working with hardly any intermission till dark, having constantly to strip and plunge into the stream in all seasons, and this often in the most dangerous parts.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

The idea of carrying the head and rice round a village, so the people said, is to draw a kind of cordon on every side of it, and prevent the entrance of the evil spirits.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 4 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

This volume, which she republished in England, in 1832, contains some very pleasing specimens of glowing description, graceful imagery, and well-turned expression, which show that her powers required only cultivation to have secured to her a respectable rank among modern poets.
— from Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Emma Roberts

“They’re all trying to hold me up, because they know I’ve got to have a room right away.
— from The Spirit of the School by Ralph Henry Barbour

It will be asked what the attitude of my Father's mind was to me, and of mine to his, as regards religion, at this time, when we were thrown together alone so much.
— from Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse

Caution tends naturally to circumspection, and it produces a cautious and considerate disposition of mind; persons so organized are continually on their guard, they look forward from fear of what may happen and are anxious to anticipate every occurence, they ask advice, take opinions and are still undecided; thus it produces doubt, irresolution, and wavering, which prevents vigorous and decisive conduct: when the organ is deficient in mature age, the individual is rash and precipitate, never apprehensive of the results of his conduct and thus he adopts rash resolutions and enters on hazardous enterprizes without foreseeing what must necessarily follow: to a due influence of this faculty we may trace the moral virtue that regulates the impulses of passion—looks to the future, and keeps the end of all things steadily in view.
— from Christian Phrenology: A Guide to Self-Knowledge by Joseph Bunney

On their way they passed a door, beside which Catherine paused hesitating, and then with a bright flush on the face, which had such maternal calm in it already, she threw her arm round Rose and drew her in.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

At last his foot touched the deck, and then he and Rossetti ran as fast as they could to the stern.
— from The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein