“Having now shown you that I am not quite such a fool as I look, and that I have to be fished for with a rod and line for a good long while before I am caught, I will proceed to explain why I specially wished to make your brother look a fool.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A beautiful white cloud of foam at momently intervals coursed by the side of the vessel with a roar, and little stars of flame danced and sparkled and went out in it: and every now and then light detachments of this white cloud-like foam darted off from the vessel's side, each with its own small constellation, over the sea, and scoured out of sight like a Tartar troop over a wilderness.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Then mounting, with a roar as loud As thunder from a labouring cloud, The mighty monarch to the tide Of Ocean, lord of rivers, hied.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It is an extremely valuable work and represents a lifetime of study and research.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The following night he returned home from work at rather a late hour in the evening.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

For there had reached us on the wings of the wind and rain, a long shout.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

All the members of the great order of Hymenopterous insects are terrestrial, excepting the genus Proctotrupes, which Sir John Lubbock has discovered to be aquatic in its habits; it often enters the water and dives about by the use not of its legs but of its wings, and remains as long as four hours beneath the surface; yet it exhibits no modification in structure in accordance with its abnormal habits.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

However strongly Jewish savants protested, it was everywhere sedulously asserted that the Old Testament alluded everywhere to Christ, and nothing but Christ, more especially His Cross, and thus, wherever reference was made to wood, a rod, a ladder, a twig, a tree, a willow, or a staff, such a reference could not but be a prophecy relating to the wood of the Cross: even the setting-up [pg 086] of the Unicorn and the Brazen Serpent, even Moses stretching forth his hands in prayer—yea, the very spits on which the Easter lambs were roasted: all these were allusions to the Cross, and, as it were, preludes to it!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The fifth day, about twelve, I had become tired, and stopped at a creek to get some water and rest a little.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

He was a regular African lion.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Still, they who knew him well remarked that his countenance no longer wore its frank and easy expression, while in his eye there was a restless, anxious look, as he glanced from side to side, and seemed troubled and suspicious.
— from Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

The pistons were alternately raised and lowered by the feet of the operator, which were placed in stirrups, of which one [35] was fixed on each piston.
— from Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett

"We were all ready at last.
— from The Romance of the Harem by Anna Harriette Leonowens

Credence is the means by which, in high and low, in the man of the world and in the recluse, our bare and barren nature is overrun and diversified from without with a rich and living clothing.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

Now this city is situated in Liguria, and lies about half way between the city of Ravenna and the Alps on the borders of Gaul; for from either one it is a journey of eight days to Milan for an unencumbered traveller; and it is the first of the cities of the West, after Rome at least, both in size and in population and in general prosperity.
— from Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. by Procopius

As poem after poem was written their author stored them in a cranny in the wall, a retreat at last invaded by Mrs. Clare, with the result that she was wont to help the boiling of the kettle by burning underneath it the early pipings of her son.
— from Poems by John Clare

The camp by night, if no shelter were at hand, was in the forest, where the travelers tied their awnings to the branches of trees, built their fires, dressed their stolen meats, and lived so far as they could accomplish it on the fat of the land—for the most part of their way a rich and lovely land of vine-clad hills and opulent verdure.
— from Artists Past and Present; Random Studies by Elisabeth Luther Cary

They were too big for two men to handle or for mules to drag, and splitting the trunks would mean a great deal of work and require a lot of time.
— from The Lost Wagon by Jim Kjelgaard

She was not tall, but as she moved forward displayed a figure so exquisitely symmetrical that for a moment the Duke forgot to look at her face, and then her head was turned away; yet he was consoled a moment for his disappointment by watching the movements of a neck so white, and round, and long, and delicate, that it would have become Psyche, and might have inspired Praxiteles.
— from The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Up the road, at a little distance, was a rustic archway like an entrance to a private property.
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series by James Edmund Dunning