Now, about the midway to the top of the hill was a pleasant arbor, made by the Lord of the hill for the refreshment of weary travelers.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

H2 anchor Long, Long Hence After a long, long course, hundreds of years, denials, Accumulations, rous'd love and joy and thought, Hopes, wishes, aspirations, ponderings, victories, myriads of readers, Coating, compassing, covering—after ages' and ages' encrustations, Then only may these songs reach fruition.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Later I learned that he was a provincial, had come to the capital on some important, brain-racking business, had brought a letter of recommendation to our host, and our host had taken him under his protection, not at all con amore .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

That was Legree’s day of grace; then good angels called him; then he was almost persuaded, and mercy held him by the hand.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Not only did he assure Martin that he was a poet, but Martin learned that Brissenden also was one.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

And if it be true that he was a person of rank and education, those circumstances could serve only to aggravate his guilt.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

At times he was a prey to agonies of morbid uneasiness, amounting sometimes to panic.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One would have said that he was a pendulum which was no longer wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing altogether.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He confesses that he was a pupil of a certain disciple of Plato, one Pamphilus, at Samos; for he lived there when he was young, with his father and his brothers.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I increased it yesterday by limping about the house with a party I had to breakfast.
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole

if I venture to pay a compliment to the mistress of my billet, or to kiss her daughter (which I am often disposed to do, the said daughter being rather fresh and pretty), the Maestro di Casa jerks up his Messina sash, twirls his whiskers, and plays so ominously with the haft of his knife, that I am compelled to keep my gallantry within very narrow bounds.
— from Adventures of an Aide-de-Camp; or, A Campaign in Calabria, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant

and I wolde haue crowned myne husbande at hys oute goinge to her with a pysbowle,that he so ēbawlmed might haue gon vnto his souerayne ladie.
— from A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives by Desiderius Erasmus

He was holding her closely to him, and though a little spasm of breathlessness went through her she gave herself to him with a pulsing gladness that thrilled her whole being.
— from The Obstacle Race by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

"There was no time to pause and recruit the hungry stock, nor dare we allow them much freedom to hunt the withered herbage, for a marauding enemy hung upon the rear, hovering on either flank, and skulked in ambuscade in the front, the horizon was a panorama of mountains, the grandest and most desolate on the continent.
— from How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon A True Romance of Patriotic Heroism Christian Devotion and Final Martyrdom by Oliver W. (Oliver Woodson) Nixon

The which Thomas hath wylled a prest to syng in this church for the space of 20 years, for hym, his wyves, his children, and all men’s soules.
— from Gleanings in Graveyards: A Collection of Curious Epitaphs by Horatio Edward Norfolk

He taxed her with a present worth £10, which she promised before he should return to Ireland; but on his taking leave the medals were not ready.
— from The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift

"The Honeymoon" was a pronounced success.
— from The Mormons and the Theatre; or, The History of Theatricals in Utah by John S. (John Shanks) Lindsay

He had a high, rolling forehead, intelligent eyes, and a good bearing—as though he were a proud and courageous animal.
— from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf