Looking through the window I could see her walking feebly along the other side, while her pursuer dogged her some little distance behind.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

After the flowers are past, there arises sometimes a round hard head, forked at the top, wherein is contained small black seed, but usually they fall away without any seed, and it is the kernels or grains of the root which are usually called the White Saxifrage-seed, and so used.
— 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 was kept, to be sure, rather cross and crusty; but on the whole I could see he was excellently entertained, and that a lamb-like submission and turtle-dove sensibility, while fostering his despotism more, would have pleased his judgment, satisfied his common-sense, and even suited his taste less.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

"The winter is coming—ah, my love, the winter is coming soon!
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

26, the estate which is in the territory which is called Sabine, that I maintain is mine , lawyers’ wordiness for fundus Sabīnus .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Bisag dílì kaíla pangayúan, That woman is completely shameless.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

‘That’s nothing to what I could say if I chose,’ the Duchess replied, in a pleased tone.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

To justify the irrational, we appeal to what is commonly said to be.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

44 For example, according to what I commonly see, avarice has no greater impediment than itself; the more bent and vigorous it is, the less it rakes together, and commonly sooner grows rich when disguised in a visor of liberality.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I have been walking all this way in complete suspense.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

“I don't think there's much difference between riding on horseback and rowing in a boat, as far as the work is concerned,” said the same voice.
— from The Boy Trapper by Harry Castlemon

In so doing, in addition to what I could see for myself, I applied for information to all whose opportunities had been favorable for obtaining a knowledge of any particular section.
— from Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846 by Joel Palmer

There is none of my own kind to whom I can speak freely, as I did to you in the carriage; my daughters—my other daughters—are too young.
— from Over the Border: A Romance by Robert Barr

That is the shameful pathway which nowadays leads to what is called "successful newspaper work.
— from A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

From Buttermere : After crossing Scarf Gap some keep to the track as far as the summit of the Black Sail Pass, and then turn to the right up the ridge of the Pillar Fell, while others adopt the more laborious plan of working upwards after descending the valley until nearly opposite the Rock, which in this way is certainly seen to much greater advantage.
— from Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. (Walter Parry) Haskett Smith

Just as when some strong exotic is carried to some distant land and there takes root, it exterminates the feebler vegetation of the place to which it comes; so with Christ in my heart the sins, the evil habits, the passions, the lusts, and all other foul spawn and offspring, will die and disappear.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

He also executed some works at Cortona and at Arezzo, besides those already mentioned, and some others in the church of S. Fiore e Lucilla, a monastery of black monks, notably a representation in a chapel of St Thomas putting his hand into the wound in Christ's side.
— from The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) by Giorgio Vasari