Aksinya attended to the shop, and from the yard could be heard the cJlink of bottles and of money, her laughter and loud talk, and the anger of customers whom she had offended; and at the same time it could be seen that the secret sale of vodka was already going on in the shop.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I quickly perceived that they cast hostile Glances upon one another; and that their Patches were placed in those different Situations, as Party-Signals to distinguish Friends from Foes.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

This verse is composed of a dactylic tetrameter acatalectic + a trochaic tripody.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

He had begun by pacing up and down with folded arms, and then the space being too confined, he had seated himself on the stool in his cell.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

[217] An allusion to the Mohammedan custom of removing the shoes before entering a mosque.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

At another time the most childish sophistry is enough to secure its condemnation.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

'Pray, Mr Headstone, what is the name,' he asked, again trying to make a diversion, 'of young Hexam's sister?'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The counsel for the defence had spoken tolerably well, in that provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic stride; a tongue in which a husband is called a consort , and a woman a spouse ; Paris, the centre of art and civilization ; the king, the monarch ; Monseigneur the Bishop, a sainted pontiff ; the district-attorney, the eloquent interpreter of public prosecution ; the arguments, the accents which we have just listened to ; the age of Louis XIV., the grand age ; a theatre, the temple of Melpomene ; the reigning family, the august blood of our kings ; a concert, a musical solemnity ; the General Commandant of the province, the illustrious warrior, who, etc. ; the pupils in the seminary, these tender levities ; errors imputed to newspapers, the imposture which distills its venom through the columns of those organs ; etc.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

At about this time, Boston and Philadelphia became negligible importing quantities; the business of Baltimore continued to be quite prosperous; and New York rapidly increased her imports and took the commanding position.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I am all these three.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

In possession of Menin and Bouchain, the British continued to encircle Lille and Douai, and approached the two ends of the important Menin-Tourcoing-Roubaix-Cysoing-Orchies-Somain-Cambrai railway.
— from Lille Before and During the War by Pneu Michelin (Firm)

I am not surprised that you are become as reserved and monosyllabic as the duke, since you are obliged to be always about his person; to me, however, who am accustomed to the lighter service of Italy, it seems strange enough.
— from Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And as to the standpoint of Uncle Tom and the Bible, nothing more significant can be cited than this passage from one of the latest writings of Heinrich Heine:— "The reawakening of my religious feelings I owe to that holy book the Bible.
— from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

This unity I have favoured by throwing out such stanzas as mar it, and afterwards arranging them together.
— from The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America From Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

The gloom of the place was awful, and turned the rank foliage of trees and shrubs black in perpetual twilight.
— from Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon

All attempts to trace a town or city of that name have failed; and the whole manner of John’s ministry and statements of the evangelists indicate him to have selected a retired spot, rather than a town or city, as the place of his preaching and baptism.
— from A Bible History of Baptism by Samuel J. (Samuel John) Baird

Also he said he sat still in his howse and said nothing tuching thenglish, as also that there could nothing be done in thenglish howse
— from Diary of Richard Cocks, Volume 2 Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615-1622, with Correspondence by Richard Cocks

Upon the commencement of hostilities, he was detailed to keep under observation the military preparations of the Duchy of Cornwall, and also to take necessary steps for communicating with German submarines that, under von Tirpitz's prearranged scheme, were to operate in the Bristol Channel.
— from The Submarine Hunters: A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

'He gave some apostles, some prophets,' etc.; one man receiving according to this fashion, and another according to that, and to each of us the distribution is made 'according to the measure of the gift of Christ.'
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren