The sun had already everywhere brought on the new day with its light and the birds, carolling blithely among the green branches, bore witness thereof unto the ear with their merry songs, when the ladies and the three young men, arising all, entered the gardens and pressing the dewy grass with slow step, went wandering hither and thither, weaving goodly garlands and disporting themselves, a great while.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

However, after long consultation they set me on one of their horses and carried me to a convent of women vowed to religion, according to their law, where, whatever they said, I was of all the ladies kindly received and still entreated with honour, and there with great devotion I joined them in serving Saint Waxeth-in-Deepdene, a saint for whom the women of that country have a vast regard.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Of course, she would fall in love with him, and he with her, and they would get married, and come home, and live in an immense house in London.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The garden was a large one, and tastefully laid out; besides several splendid dahlias, there were some other fine flowers still in bloom: but my companion would not give me time to examine them: I must go with him, across the wet grass, to a remote sequestered corner, the most important place in the grounds, because it contained his garden.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

I dined with them, and so after dinner by water home, all the way going and coming reading “Faber Fortunae,” which I can never read too often.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But he is wrong when he asserts that we gave the Cholullans the above-mentioned chastisement without any provocation, and merely for pastime.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

When he awoke there was George, standing partially undressed and very soberly popping ticks.
— from Ken Ward in the Jungle by Zane Grey

Of course she would fall in love with him, and he with her, and they would get married, and come home, and live in an immense house in London.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Our prayers, sir, were heard and they were graciously answered.
— from Five Sermons by Henry Benjamin Whipple

Scores of men was discharged, but Jan said we should do better to stay, for there wasn't nowhere for us to go to if we went, and he'd a got fond of the sojer's life, as I had, so long as I was with he; and they was glad to keep so fine a man.
— from The Drummer's Coat by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir

There was only one person who was not on good terms with him, and that was Gregory Ivanovitch Mouromsky, his nearest neighbour.
— from The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

"You told me," said Ingeborg, who had a trick which good men sometimes found irritating of remembering everything they had ever said, "the foundation of the State was manure."
— from The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth Von Arnim

During the evening she had, with the help of the cook, set out a dainty repast in the dining-room, and as she made her way into the parlor again to invite the guests to come and partake of it, she wondered at the sound that reached her ears, for instead of the hum of many voices one voice alone was heard, and that was Gussie's.
— from Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Stanford Eveleth

The wedding feast is for him alone who has accepted the wedding garment.
— from Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion by Francis Greenwood Peabody

What a strength and spring of life, what hope and trust, what glad, unresting energy, is in this one thought,—to serve Him who is "my Lord," ever near me, ever looking on; seeing my intentions before He beholds my failures; knowing my desires before He sees my faults; cheering me to endeavor greater things, and yet accepting the least; inviting my poor service, and yet, above all, content with my poorer love.
— from Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary Wilder Tileston

He knew that his case was hopeless, and that when Gilks had said all, Riddell could corroborate it with what had been said last night.
— from The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed