" "Certainly, Master Georgey, if your grandpapa wishes it," the woman answered, looking rather uneasily at Mr. Robert Audley.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

When they had thrown him in (I believe it was into the Weser) a little bird flew up into the air, which sang, "To thy death art thou sped, Until God's word be said.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

oh, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with a little blind cry, she broke away.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, Caliph of Bagdad The Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid sat in his palace, wondering if there was anything left in the world that could possibly give him a few hours' amusement, when Giafar the grand-vizir, his old and tried friend, suddenly appeared before him.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

The citizens were indignant, there was a large and respectful audience, Miss Anthony was introduced by Judge Henry and resolutions were unanimously passed denouncing the posters.
— 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

Therefore ought the freewill offering of thyself into the hands of God to go before all thy works, if thou wilt attain liberty and grace.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

Meantime, the afternoon advanced, while I thus wandered about like a lost and starving dog.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Lycomedes too is in the picture with a wound in the wrist, and Lescheos says he was so wounded by Agenor... Pausanias, x. 26.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

They wish to "cultivate" her in general still more, and intend, as they say, to make the "weaker sex" STRONG by culture: as if history did not teach in the most emphatic manner that the "cultivating" of mankind and his weakening—that is to say, the weakening, dissipating, and languishing of his FORCE OF WILL—have always kept pace with one another, and that the most powerful and influential women in the world (and lastly, the mother of Napoleon) had just to thank their force of will—and not their schoolmasters—for their power and ascendancy over men.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If it has the good luck to prove so of any of thine, and thou hast but half so much pleasure in reading as I had in writing it, thou wilt as little think thy money, as I do my pains, ill bestowed.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

It was said that the seclusion within the college would be tantamount to penal departure, and that the old men should thus have the last lingering drops of breath allowed them, without, in the world at large.
— from The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope

There was in that wallet a little paper addressed to Citizen de la Vicomterie.
— from The Adventures of François Foundling, Thief, Juggler, and Fencing-Master during the French Revolution by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

However, I befriended him on this occasion, and recommended them to let him be for a while, intimating that, with a little patience on our parts, he would soon come round again.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

When Belle could not answer, she appealed to Bradley, who, if taciturn, was at least patient.
— from Laramie Holds the Range by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

This guarded the southern limit of the great mountain wall in the west; a little northward was Mynydd Maen—the Mountain of the Stone—a giant, rounded billow; and still to the north mountains, and on fair, clear days one could see the pointed summit of the Holy Mountain by Abergavenny.
— from Far Off Things by Arthur Machen

Then he wandered in the woods and, later, lay out in the fields where he fell, till he was found by merciful folk and taken to a convent.
— from The Road to Damascus, a Trilogy by August Strindberg

By a judicious harping on all these strings Jackson himself, whose name was still a mighty power among the masses, was induced to write a letter favoring instant and prompt annexation.
— from Thomas Hart Benton by Theodore Roosevelt

He had a tremendous sense of the thing that is and none at all of the thing that has been, and thus he was always being misled by such lovely shells of the past as Hampton Court into the belief that the past which inhabited them was as lovely.
— from Henry James by Rebecca West

I one day said to him that I was intending to write a little book, and he exclaimed: "Oh, I wish I had time to write a little book!
— from The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by William James Stillman