After supper, the same night, the young people left for the country.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The spirit of gaiety was eclipsed; the music ceased; the young people left their occupations and gathered together.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

They played at 'the stick burns,' and the young poets played at 'heart-burns,' and the witlings played off their jests, and the jests rolled away with a thundering sound, as if empty pots were being shattered against doors.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

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— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The parlors, in charge of the officers of the association, are devoted to the special work of the year, pertaining to the centennial celebration and the political party conventions; also to calls, receptions, etc.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

When she was alone, unable to sleep, the landscapes of her native home, with Valancourt, and the circumstances of her departure, haunted her fancy; she drew pictures of social happiness amidst the grand simplicity of nature, such as she feared she had bade farewel to for ever; and then, the idea of this young Piedmontese, thus ignorantly sporting with his happiness, returned to her thoughts, and, glad to escape awhile from the pressure of nearer interests, she indulged her fancy in composing the following lines.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"I do not think that she behaved well to you, Philip.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

CHOP ONIONS AND THE WHITES OF HARD BOILED EGGS, SEASON WITH SALT AND A LITTLE VINEGAR; THE YOLKS PRESS THROUGH A COLANDER INTO AN ENTRÉE DISH, SEASON WITH FRESH OIL AND SERVE [1].
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The young prince married the daughter of his master of rhetoric, and promoted his father-in-law to the first offices of the empire.
— 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

And then your poor maid.
— from Nine Unlikely Tales by E. (Edith) Nesbit

By the same post I received a letter from Mr. Lovell, transcribing some passages from one of the same date to him, and the [361] only one, he says, which he has received since your absence, and his pocket-book proves that he has written eighteen different times; yet possibly you may have received as few from him.
— from Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams

“Oh! my nether garments,” thought I. “ Quantus sudor incrit Bedoso, to restore you to your pristine purity.”
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"Well, but, papa," said Willy, "do they not do a great deal of harm to young partridges and pheasants, and of course the gamekeeper will not stand that?"
— from Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by W. (William) Houghton

The outbuildings of the palaces must have descended to this point; fragments of porticoes, fallen beams, columns and friezes set up afresh, edged the rugged path which wound through wild weeds, suggesting a neglected cemetery; and the guide repeated the words which he had used day by day for ten years past, continuing to enunciate suppositions as facts, and giving a name, a destination, a history, to every one of the fragments.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

They'd had nine sons and never had a gyirl-child, and they'd always wanted one, and the old man used to look at the boys and say, 'Well, your mother and me didn't want this many boys, but you children would be boys, and now you've got to make up for the disapp'intment you've been to your parents by bringin' us in some nice, pretty daughters-in-law.'
— from The Land of Long Ago by Eliza Calvert Hall

Take that, ye punkin-coloured assassin!"
— from Sixes and Sevens by O. Henry

WHY should you sew, and work, and torture your poor head with anxiety, and spoil your beautiful eyes, and ruin your health?
— from Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is the Minister who questions, and La Mothe who answers: Q. Was it not in 1699 that you proposed to me an establishment in the Straits which separate Lake Erie from Lake Huron?
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft