In particular was a military staff-captain working body and soul and arms and legs to compass such a series of steps as were never before performed, even in a dream.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

During this conversation Aristides, after a long, lingering glance at the stage, had at last torn himself away from its fascinations, and was now lounging down the long straggling street in a peculiarly dissipated manner, with his hat pushed on the back part of his head, his right hand and a greater portion of his right arm buried in his trousers pocket.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

But when you draw thence a comparison to moral relations, I own that I am altogether at a loss to understand you.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

[7] Humboldt tells this ( Examen , II. 221), alleging Jacopo d'Acqui as authority; and Libri ( H. des Sciences Mathématiques , II. 149), quoting Doglioni, Historia Veneziana .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

'Dear Rose, I know it all.' 'I am not here by accident,' he added after a lengthened silence; 'nor have I heard all this to-night, for I knew it yesterday—only yesterday.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Without listening the least in the world to the lamentations of M. Bonacieux--lamentations to which, besides, they must have been pretty well accustomed--the two guards took the prisoner each by an arm, and led him away, while the commissary wrote a letter in haste and dispatched it by an officer in waiting.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

It is strange that, in American affairs at least, the woman-note is predominant.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

ount of the sweetening of the waters at Marah, seem derived from some ancient profane author, and he such an author also as looks less authentic than are usually followed by Josephus.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

"It abounds in incidents, anecdotes and adventures."— Louisville Courier Journal.
— from The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Orton Kerbey

The serenity of undisturbed security, the luxury of wealth amassed abroad and liberally spent at home, gave a physiognomy of ease and proud self-confidence to all her edifices.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 3 (of 7) The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds

As autumn approached Leicester marched back his forces to the Hague, and was greatly disgusted and astonished to be called to account by what he pleased to name an assembly of shopkeepers and artisans.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

After the confusion attendant on the coming and going of carriages, cabs and divers other vehicles, the fatigued audience are at length set in motion towards their respective dwellings.
— from Physiology of the Opera by Scrici

The man under the brushwood heard a noise, and a common eagle came and ate a little and flew away again.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

We proceeded but a few yards before we were again stopped by a precipitous ascent, and as Lord Chester was then earnestly engaged in praising his horse to one of the cavalcade, I had time to remark the spot.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"But if it is not so, supposing it otherwise," he began again after a long pause, in the course of which the foaming billows of his wrath had sunk, "if the apparition in my youth was a truth and no deception, if his tears did indeed once bedew the face of his child, if my father has been pining in infinite sorrow for his long lost son, if his heart has been sighing after me with the same strange emotion as sometimes in hours of quiet rises convulsively in the depths of my soul, if racked by repentance and the stings of conscience he has been seeking me mad with grief....
— from Gabriel: A Story of the Jews in Prague by S. (Salomon) Kohn

The buffaloes are at a loss in the water.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by David Livingstone

The so-called religious element was in partnership with fraud, superstition, ignorance, incompetence, and an asceticism like that of Simeon Stylites, leading to nothing.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Elbert Hubbard

I replied to this by telling her how my mother, being alone at a large London hotel for a night, insisted on having one of the chambermaids sleep with her, no doubt from the same sense of hopeless wandering in a similar Dædalian Labyrinth.
— from Stevenson at Manasquan by Charlotte Eaton