my friend, the days were brief 5 Whereof the poets talk, When that, which breathes within the leaf, Could slip its bark and walk.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

“How did these letters come?” said he.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

“Look—'way off there, with those trees and the houses and that lovely church spire, and the river shining just like silver.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

'I must see the lady.' 'Come!' said the man, pushing her towards the door.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

They by parks and lodges going See the lordly castles stand: Summer woods, about them blowing, Made a murmur in the land.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

It would appear from this that there was a last letter of Lady Byron to her husband, which he did not think proper to keep on hand, or show to the 'initiated' with his usual unreserve; that this letter contained some kind of pledge for which he preferred to take her word, without documents .
— from Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy by Harriet Beecher Stowe

You have often noticed on the see-saw that a small child at one end can be balanced by a larger child at the other end, provided that the larger child sits [pg 58] nearer the middle.
— from Common Science by Carleton Washburne

On this August night, while unknown to the besieged the Allied Armies encamped only six miles away, the reign of terror reached its height for the little Christian stronghold.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

His favorite axioms were that, to secure happiness, a woman must marry a man of her own class; that every one was punished sooner or later for having climbed too high; that love could so little endure under the worries of a household, that both husband and wife needed sound good qualities to be happy, that it would not do for one to be far in advance of the other, because, above everything, they must understand each other; if a man spoke Greek and his wife Latin, they might come to die of hunger.
— from At the Sign of the Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac

His clothes were new, his linen fresh, and the lawyer correctly surmised that he had himself met the cost of this excellent outfit.
— from The Fortune of the Landrays by Vaughan Kester

“One doctor of the Lutheran Church,” says Robert Robinson, of Cambridge, “hath given a comment on heresy and schism, and hath inserted no less than six hundred and thirty-two sorts of heretics, heresiarchs, and schismatics, diversified as the birds of heaven, and agreeing only in one single point, the crime of not staying in what is called the Church.”
— from Unitarianism Defended A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool by John Hamilton Thom