Of course, I hated my fellow clerks one and all, and I despised them all, yet at the same time I was, as it were, afraid of them.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Soames, who was sole executor, took charge of all arrangements, and in due course sent out the following invitation to every male member of the family: To...........
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

So said the sprightly Dorothea, and on hearing her Don Quixote turned to Sancho, and said to him, with an angry air, "I declare now, little Sancho, thou art the greatest little villain in Spain.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

This was to a great degree the case: for, though a large landed proprietor, yet, being a projector, and of an ardent and industrious disposition, he had on his own estate given himself up to agricultural labours.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“A man to whom a court-card, an eight, and an ace is dealt (if the eight is in the middle), on finding that he has eleven by the two outside ones, says, for instance, Handak kaki tiga , and then commences to slide out the middle card, hoping that it is going to be an eight, or at all events a seven (three pips on each side).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

I couldn't help hearing, at first, and then I was so angry and ashamed, I didn't remember that I ought to go away."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

In my despair I sighed and clutched my own arms, and as I did so one of my hands came into contact with something cold and slippery having the feel of tallow.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

The books are all arranged in double rows; but, by the ingenious plan of placing small books in front of large ones, the letterings of all can be seen.
— from Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In by Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley

He had never looked on it as within the possibilities of hazard that the horse could be defeated; now, little as those about him knew it, an absolute and irremediable disgrace fronted him.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

Because—you’re ashamed to admit you haven’t been going regular—yet, you don’t want to come out with a blunt answer “No”—it makes you sort of an atheist, and I didn’t want to answer it that way, but I do go to the high holidays, but going regular and going to the high holidays are two different ways of going.
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The apparatus consists of a stout steel cylinder, which may be made absolutely air-tight; an air-pump and proper connections for exhausting the air in the cylinder to a pressure equivalent to 10 mm. of mercury; an insulated plug for providing the means of igniting the charge; a valve by which the gaseous products of combustion may be removed for subsequent analysis; and an indicator drum (Fig.
— from Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Herbert M. (Herbert Michael) Wilson

Ancient accounts agree in describing Alexander as a typically cruel and suspicious tyrant.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

In these the small figures of conventionalised flowers sometimes have geometric shapes and are arranged in diagonal or perpendicular rows.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley

12 tentacula, not forming such a regular circle as on the two first arms, and apparently issuing directly from a very short limb attached to the body.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George, Sir

It returned again—and again, and, in desperation, not untouched with panic, she assured herself that she was tired—very tired, and this silly feeling was the result.
— from The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum

No one doubted his genius, and all felt or affected admiration at its display upon this critical occasion.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) by John Lothrop Motley

You see this door which I open, and again an inner door, which I open too.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various