The latter says: "Read Daniel, the admirable Daniel.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

" "I shall be jealous when Tertius goes to Lowick," said Rosamond, dimpling, and speaking with aery lightness.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

"Go back to your work, Becky," Miss Amelia had said; but she had stopped to pick up reverently first a muff and then a coat, and while she stood looking at them adoringly, she heard Miss Minchin upon the threshold, and, being smitten with terror at the thought of being accused of taking liberties, she rashly darted under the table, which hid her by its tablecloth.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

q̃ li grandi lassando tute le sue robe dui ſe traſſeno da parte tirã do ali nr̃i frece.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

To thrust aside the stones, to raise the grating, to lift Marius, who was as inert as a dead body, upon his shoulders, to descend, with this burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that sort of well, fortunately not very deep, to let the heavy trap, upon which the loosened stones rolled down afresh, fall into its place behind him, to gain his footing on a flagged surface three metres below the surface,—all this was executed like that which one does in dreams, with the strength of a giant and the rapidity of an eagle; this took only a few minutes.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Once, it is true, he glanced back over the long space ridden during the day, and noted that the ridge, which had been the [165] scene of his stirring experience of the previous night, was fast fading from sight; but the survey was so brief and hasty that it failed to take in an important feature in which he was directly concerned.
— from Across Texas by Edward Sylvester Ellis

{MN} The 22d of March, two Ships came from thence; the Peter-Bonaventure, near 200 Tunns, and sixteen Pieces of Ordnance; the Captain, Thomas Sherwin; the Master, Mr. Edward Some, like him in Condition, a Goodly, Lusty, Proper, Valiant Man: The Lydia, wherein was Mr. Anthony Thorne, a smaller Ship, were chased by eleven Ships of Dunkirk; being thus over-match'd, Captain Sherwin was taken by them in Torbay, only his Valiant Master was slain; the Ship with about seventy English Men they carried betwixt Dover and Callais to Dunkirk; but the Lydia safely recovered Dartmouth. {MN} An Evil Mischance.
— from The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith into Europe, Asia, Africa, and America From Ann. Dom. 1593 to 1629 by John Smith

of the shock this would be to her—she who had already begun to look up to him as her stay and support: he bowed his head, and the tears, long suppressed, rolled down.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

“Not in the least,” said Richard, dropping upon a rustic bench, and beginning to fan himself with his straw hat.
— from The Flirt by Booth Tarkington

" "It is too little, sire," replied D'Artagnan, with inimitable seriousness.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

This lace somewhat resembles Dalecarlian lace.
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

This signified to him that it was already loaded and without further thought he carefully attached the little sign reading Do not disturb to the door.
— from One Against the Moon by Donald A. Wollheim

The annual per capita income of the lower South ranged during the Jacksonian era from thirty to forty dollars, while that of the older Southern States like Virginia and Maryland
— from Expansion and Conflict by William Edward Dodd