“That has cured me of beautiful, poetical, and loving women,” said Athos, after a considerable pause, raising his head, and forgetting to continue the fiction of the count.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The temperament of the welkin passed from the phlegmatic to the sanguine; an excellent harvest was almost a certainty; and as a consequence prices rushed down.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

SYN: Hearers, assembly, auditory, conference, parley, reception, interview.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

That is to say, they proved that a certain colour will exist, in a certain light, if a normal eye is placed at a certain point relatively to the table.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

But he will recollect, for surely he cannot be ignorant of it, that the lands of America are not, as in England, let at a rent certain in money, and therefore cannot, as here, be taxed at a certain pound rate.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

By these prescriptions, which for some time produced no sensible effect, the embers were, in all probability, kept glowing, and the vital power revived, for, after a considerable pause, respiration was gradually renewed at long intervals, a languid motion was perceived at the heart, a few feeble and irregular pulsations were felt at the wrist, the clay-coloured livery of de
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

In the midst of these more diffident invitations, the golden doors of the ballroom opened with a blatting of trumpets, and a circus parade rolled in.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

But I said nothing, and Alec Carmichael proceeded reflectively: "Of course it would be hypocritical for me to pretend that I regret what Abraham did.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

But towards the beginning of the sixth century of our era the Abyssinians of Axum, a Christian people, “raised” far “above the ordinary level of African barbarism” by their religion and by their constant intercourse with Rome, succeeded in attaching to their empire a large portion of the Happy Arabia, and ruled it at first from their African capital, but afterwards by means of a viceroy, whose dependence on the Negus of Abyssinia was little more than nominal.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7: The Sassanian or New Persian Empire The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

Now, that Point––we ought to clean that up, build decent, comfortable cottages there and a wharf; keep the men as have ambition and can pay rents, and get others in, foreigners if you like, who know their business and can set a good example.
— from At the Crossroads by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

When the voice is thus placed and automatic control prevails, reaction and reflection occur, and the sympathetic low resonance of the inflated cavities is added to the tone.
— from The Renaissance of the Vocal Art A Practical Study of Vitality, Vitalized Energy, of the Physical, Mental and Emotional Powers of the Singer, through Flexible, Elastic Bodily Movements by Edmund J. (Edmund John) Myer

My impression now is that he was an artillery captain, probably returning to the front after leave.
— from A Padre in France by George A. Birmingham

All this is written by the Commissioner with the most admirable and characteristic police restraint.
— from Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth

Served as well by a belated omnibus, a four-in-hand of lame and lamentable quality, the place, I hasten to add, eventually put forth some show of being; after a complete practical recognition of which, let me at once further mention, all the other, the positive and sublime, connections of Volterra established themselves for me without my lifting a finger.
— from Italian Hours by Henry James

At 600 yards from the well, and circularly arranged around it as a central point, rose 1,200 reverberating ovens, each six feet in diameter, and separated from each other by an interval of three feet.
— from From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon by Jules Verne