The Letters give full description of London Society—Lawyers—Judges—Visits to Lords Fitzwilliam, Leicester, Wharncliffe, Brougham—Association with Sydney Smith, Hallam, Macaulay, Dean Milman, Rogers, and Talfourd; also, a full Journal which Sumner kept in Paris.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

He went out into the wash-room to get the axe, and found Joe starching manuscripts.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

The clergyman and doctor intimately shared the general transport; and as for Joshua, the drops of true benevolence flowed from his eyes, like the oil on Aaron's beard, while he skipped about the room in an awkward ecstasy, and in a voice resembling the hoarse notes of the long-eared tribe, cried, “O father Abraham!
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The last parcel, for his Highness the Hereditary Duke,’ added I, looking most sternly, ‘contains the Gustavus Adolphus emerald, which he gave to his princess, and which you pledged to me as a family jewel of your own.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

And the sons of Ambri laid an ambush for John from the city Medaba, and seized upon him, and upon those that were with him, and plundered all that they had with them.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Now, the way I look at it, a hickry-bark ladder don’t cost nothing, and don’t waste nothing, and is just as good to load up a pie with, and hide in a straw tick, as any rag ladder you can start; and as for Jim, he ain’t had no experience, and so he don’t care what kind of a—” “Oh, shucks, Huck Finn, if I was as ignorant as you I’d keep still—that’s what I’D do.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

And on this principle acts done from anger are fairly judged not to be from malice prepense, because it is not the man who acts in wrath who is the originator really but he who caused his wrath.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

I was so much interested intellectually that our confinement did not wear on me; and as for Jeff, bless his heart!—he enjoyed the society of that tutor of his almost as much as if she had been a girl—I don’t know but more.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It seems hard to lose him as a friend just when I had begun to feel his value.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Cyclamens—called by the Italians viola pazze , "mad violets"—grow on its margin in glowing masses; sweet-scented violets in profusion perfume all the air; and a few Judas-trees, loaded with crimson blossoms, without a single leaf to relieve the gorgeous colour, serve as an admirable background, almost blending with the clouds on the low horizon.
— from Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

The British captain refused to accept the surrender of the Chesapeake, but took from her crew Ware, Martin, and Strachan, the three men formerly demanded as deserters, and a fourth, John Wilson, claimed as a runaway from a merchant ship.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

Come up to my stand, Jackson and Sansome, and ask for Jack Furbish."
— from The Young Vigilantes: A Story of California Life in the Fifties by Samuel Adams Drake

MUSOTTE As a father? JEAN As a father.
— from Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant

Position, fame, honor, and general greatness increase rapidly, but moral qualities rise highest and also fastest just before and near puberty and continue to increase later yet.
— from Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley (Granville Stanley) Hall

Wolf Teeth are comparatively small in size and have only one root and are found just in front of the upper molar teeth.
— from The Veterinarian by Charles James Korinek

And as for John Eames,—in those bitter moments of her reflection she almost wished the same in regard to him.
— from The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope