Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people—always slow to move and irresolute—every intimacy, which at first so agreeably diversifies life and appears a light and charming adventure, inevitably grows into a regular problem of extreme intricacy, and in the long run the situation becomes unbearable.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It was so homey and refreshing, that I sat down on the floor and read and looked and ate and laughed and cried, in my usual absurd way.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

It was so homey and refreshing that I sat down on the floor and read and looked and ate and laughed and cried, in my usual absurd way.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

In that event, no doubt, he would establish the Jarndyce Institution and the Summerson Almshouses, and a little annual Corporation Pilgrimage to St. Albans.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

pr. one stationed in the first rank of an army; a leader; a chief, ringleader, Ac. 24.5. (ᾰ.) Πρωτοτόκια, ων, τά, the rights of primogeniture, birthright, He. 12.16: (S.) from Πρωτότοκος, ου, ὁ, ἡ, τό, -ον, ( πρῶτος & τίκτω ) firstborn, Mat. 1.25.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

The Achaean league was not the first attempt at such a formation; though it was the first that ever arrived at anything like a complete scheme of federalism (unless the Aetolian preceded it); and was in many respects a fresh departure in Hellenic policy, and the first experiment in federation which seemed to contain the elements of success.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

"You think I shall arrive at a logical and clear conception.
— from Evelyn Innes by George Moore

I doubt if there is any good coal between Japan and Australia, and as long as coal from there can be delivered at present prices in Manila, I don’t advise anybody to put money [ 155 ] into Philippine coal unless they know more about it than I do.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

He blubbers, and tries to lay it on somebody else, and altogether acts like a cur—just as this fellow ’s doing now, for instance.”
— from Seth's Brother's Wife: A Study of Life in the Greater New York by Harold Frederic

For them Arthur Dillon had come home again after an adventurous life, and changes were accepted as the natural result of growth.
— from The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith

With 120,000 Soviet combat and military personnel and 15,000 military advisers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, can anyone still doubt their single-minded determination to expand their power?
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

and Auditors, and Lecturer at City of London College.
— from Urith: A Tale of Dartmoor by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Bathilde had counted about twenty steps, when the duke stopped, drew a second key from his pocket, and opened a door, then entered an antechamber, and lighted a candle at a lamp on the staircase.
— from The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Alexandre Dumas

At the end of the Strand they make a stand, Swearing they are at a loss, And chaffing say that's not the way, They must go by Charing Cross." Cunningham.
— from The Strand District by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton