She could not help but measure the professors, neat, scholarly, in fitting clothes, speaking in well-modulated voices, breathing of culture and refinement, with this almost indescribable young fellow whom somehow she loved, whose clothes never would fit him, whose heavy muscles told of damning toil, who grew excited when he talked, substituting abuse for calm statement and passionate utterance for cool self-possession.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

It is even maintained that about the time those birds first appeared some hunters on Oconaluftee saw seven of them sitting on the limb of a tree and they were still shaped like a red-horse, although they already had wings and feathers.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

“Well, it might be a real missionary work,” said she, looking rather more favorably on the child.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

And there seems a kind of deity who presides over this union of languages, and who sometimes silently lays the words in order, after all one’s poor attempts have failed.
— from Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

But now it is my glory to have loved One peerless, without stain: so let me pass, My father, howsoe'er I seem to you, Not all unhappy, having loved God's best And greatest, though my love had no return:
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Well, said Sir Launcelot, I understand to whom this castle longeth; and so he departed from them, and betaught them unto God.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

‘Good wares, fine wares,’ said she; ‘laces and bobbins of all colours.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Her hair, I said, was auburn; but her eyes Were black as death, their lashes the same hue, Of downcast length, in whose silk shadow lies Deepest attraction; for when to the view Forth from its raven fringe the full glance flies, Ne'er with such force the swiftest arrow flew; 'T is as the snake late coil'd, who pours his length, And hurls at once his venom and his strength.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

"An Almighty Providence will direct everything for the best, in this as in other things," she murmured; though it was still some little time, I thought, before her mind reverted to her own situation.
— from Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper

The men had long been going barefooted, and Jean, as soon as the weather and the nature of her work permitted it, put her only remaining pair of worn shoes in the loft against the day when she should leave Kon Klayu.
— from Where the Sun Swings North by Barrett Willoughby

This justification was sufficient so long as the direct interference of God in human affairs, and the inequality of human races, was not doubted.
— from What Shall We Do? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The friend I mean has a mind so quaintly voracious of facts that, often when we have been dining together at one of the great hotels, he would speculate, say, looking round the room filled with eager diners, on how many clams are nightly consumed in New York City, or how many millions of fresh eggs New York requires each morning for breakfast.
— from October Vagabonds by Richard Le Gallienne

Her ambition was whetted for an exercise of actual power, and the outcome was the famous battle of Beverwyck, whose story still lacks its balladist.
— from The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

And the words even of a mad woman sometimes stick like burrs.
— from A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham

She said that "during the sixteen hours which she spent last week in Westminster Abbey during the performance of the great oratorios, she had had more time 108 and leisure to reflect on her position, and for self-examination than she usually had."
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1831-1835 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de