3. There were ponies, little dogs and little lions and camels.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

If any of ye have a wiser plan, let him expound it.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Maggie said, with pale lips, as her mother came toward her crying.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Now those who live with princes love their own interests more than that of the prince whom they serve; and so they take care not to confer on him a benefit so as to injure themselves.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

On the night of the 3d of March, while President Lincoln and his cabinet were at the Capitol, a telegram from General Grant was brought to the Secretary of War, informing him that General Lee had requested an interview or conference, to make an arrangement for terms of peace.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

"Father," broke in Maggie, who had stolen unperceived to her father's elbow again, listening with parted lips, while she held her doll topsy-turvy, and crushed its nose against the wood of the chair,–"father, is it a long way off where Tom is to go?
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

She was partly laden, and was to proceed to Philadelphia; our Captain had his choice of three, and I was well pleased he chose this, which was the largest; for, from his having a large vessel, I had more room, and could carry a larger quantity of goods with me.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

I next drew up that will to which you so much objected; so that if anything befell me in the person of Dr. Jekyll, I could enter on that of Edward Hyde without pecuniary loss.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

There were in Madame de T.‘s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, Lévis,—which was pronounced Lévi,—Cambis, pronounced Cambyse.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It was asserted, "that a new-born infant, entirely covered over with flour, was presented, like some mystic symbol of initiation, to the knife of the proselyte, who unknowingly inflicted many a secret and mortal wound on the innocent victim of his error; that as soon as the cruel deed was perpetrated, the sectaries drank up the blood, greedily tore asunder the quivering members, and pledged themselves to eternal secrecy, by a mutual consciousness of guilt.
— 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

Halsey was probably late—he is always late.
— from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart

THE WHITEFRIARS PRESS, LTD., LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.
— from From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade by Frederic C. Curry

"I should say not, and only wish I stood in your shoes; but, you see—" Here Langdon plunged into a long account of his own affairs, to which Peveril listened patiently.
— from The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines by Kirk Munroe

There were patriotism, loyalty, courage, and enthusiasm, in abundance; but the commander-in-chief was a queen's favourite, odious to the people, with very moderate abilities, and eternally quarrelling with officers more competent than himself; and all the arrangements were so hopelessly behind-hand, that although great disasters might have been avenged, they could scarcely have been avoided.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

(To say that it must be smooth and white, in other words perfectly laundered, is as beside the mark as to say that faces and hands should be clean!)
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

There was a thick carpet of moist leaves underfoot, and above the wind played lightly among the overhanging branches.
— from The Battle Ground by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Malcolm, my son," he muttered feebly, "tere is a voman will pe laughing!
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

Nicolaes Beresteyn leading an expedition of raw recruits in the pursuit of his sister was a subject humorous enough to delight the young adventurer's sense of fun; moreover it was passing lucky that suspicion had at once fallen on the sea-wolves—a notorious band of ocean pirates whose acts of pillage and abduction had long since roused the ire of all northern cities that suffered from their impudent depredations.
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness