“I don’t want to be a sacristan any longer.” “What?” “Listen, mother, to what I’ve been thinking about.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

H2 anchor CINDERELLA The wife of a rich man fell sick: and when she felt that her end drew nigh, she called her only daughter to her bedside, and said, "Always be a good girl, and I will look down from heaven and watch over you."
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

But as soon as she opened her mouth, a stream of reproach, of senseless jealousy, of all that had been torturing her during that half hour which she had spent sitting motionless at the window, burst from her.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

On the other hand, he should have such a term of office to look forward to as will enable him to be judged, not by a single act, but by his course of action.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

At the door Tom dropped back a step and accosted a Sunday-dressed comrade: “Say, Billy, got a yaller ticket?”
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Protocols can describe low-level details of machine-to-machine interface (e.g., the order in which bits and bytes are sent across the wire), or high-level exchanges between allocation programs (e.g., the way in which two programs transfer a file across the Internet).
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

She said nothing, therefore, till he was out of the room, but as soon as there was only Anne to hear-- "So you and I are to be left to shift by ourselves, with this poor sick child; and not a creature coming near us all the evening!
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

A student of the present Gold Coast life describes the work of the village headman, and adds: "It is a difficult task that he is set to, but in this matter he has all-powerful helpers in the female members of the family, who will be either the aunts or the sisters or the cousins or the nieces of the headman, and as their interests are identical with his in every particular, the good women spontaneously train up their children to implicit obedience to the headman, whose rule in the family thus becomes a simple and an easy matter.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

“‘For five years,’ she said, ‘you shall be a sheep, and lord of this pleasant land, while I, no longer able to see your face, which I loved so much, shall be better able to hate you as you deserve to be hated.’
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

He would take up a book from the table and open it—talking all the while,—look at the heading of a chapter, shut it and put it back again, seizing another immediately, but holding it unopened in his hand, and waving it in the air as he spoke.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But, as soon as she reached her apartment, the countess remembered her jewels and sent her maid to get them.
— from Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes by Maurice Leblanc

The herald Argos-queller stood, and saw, And marvelled: but as soon as he had viewed The wonders of the place, he turned his steps, Entering the broad-roofed cave.
— from Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by William Cullen Bryant

I discovered that the hour was rather late, and Fitzroy was rowing down stream at a great pace when some sunken thing, a tree-root he thinks, caught the side of the boat and started a plank.
— from Cynthia's Chauffeur by Louis Tracy

Dr Bird, a somewhat appropriate authority in this case, mentions an incident which happened in America.
— from The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse

—The great problem both of the logical faculty and also of logic both as science and art, consists in this, viz., to form [Pg 114] and judge of conclusions, and through conclusions to be able to establish a proof.
— from A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler

What is there more beautiful, and stern at the same time, than this old Armorica.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

They had come back in low spirits, but after supper and a cup of coffee the surprising thing happened—their spirits jumped up as though under the influence of alcohol.
— from The Pearl Fishers by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

Thus was this once happy home now invaded by misery and distress:—thus was an amiable wife plunged into sorrows so keen, woes so bitter, afflictions so appalling, that it was no wonder if her charming form had wasted away, and the frightful aspect of the demon of despair had chased the roses from her cheeks;—and thus, too, was an excellent lady dying prematurely with that worst of the Destroyer's plagues—a broken heart!
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

12:24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her: and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous