However, instead of protesting his innocence in an humble and beseeching strain, in order to acquit himself of the charge, he resolved to elude the suspicion by provoking the wrath of his accuser, and, putting on the air of vulgar integrity affronted, began to reproach the servant in very insolent terms for his unfair supposition, and undressed himself in a moment to the skin, threw his tattered garments in the face of his adversary, telling him he would find nothing there which he would not be very glad to part with; at the same time raising his voice, he, in the gibberish of the clan he represented, scolded and cursed with great fluency, so that the whole house resounded with the noise.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

"We understand," says the Gazette of Feb. 15th, 1806, "that a boat, sometime in December last, going from Oswego to Sandy Creek, was lost near the mouth of Salmon river, and four persons drowned.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

And this evening, for the last time, Rudy and Babette sat in the miller's house as an engaged couple.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Where this guest may really be found, he comes generally without invitation; he is not formerly announced, but slips in quietly by himself sans facon ; often making his appearance under the most unimportant and trivial circumstances, and in the commonest company—anywhere, in short, but where the society is brilliant and distinguished.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

He looked astonished at the expression my face assumed during a brief second: it was not horror, it was covetousness.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

consolidated bank annuities, now standing in her name in the book or books of the governor and company of the Bank of England,’ added Bob Sawyer, in legal phraseology.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

It is generally conceded that John Arbuckle's shrewdness and business sagacity in having previously acquired the Smyser patents on a weighing and packing machine, and his control of it, really led to the coffee-sugar war.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Madame de Luynes gained admission to her husband, and brought some items of news.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

This will not always be so; in due time she will be her own doll.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

She would say: "This is going to be a red flower," and we would place a bamboo stick in the flower pot, with the name written on it.
— from Two Years in the Forbidden City by Princess Der Ling

and then I'd ask Barlow to let me hire his men for an evening to trim each of those windows with the better-class kitchen goods, and then I'd put a big sign in each window something like this: "If you want kitchen goods that wear, you'll find them at Dawson Black's."
— from Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Harold Whitehead

In conformity with this account, internal sense must be the power of being affected by something internal to the mind, i. e. dependent upon the mind itself, and since being affected implies the activity of affecting, it will be the power of being affected by the mind's own activity.
— from Kant's Theory of Knowledge by H. A. (Harold Arthur) Prichard

It was a delightfully horrid thing to be tried for murder, they said, even though one was obscure and nobody, a bound servant in the fields of the man whom he had slain.
— from The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

At the next practice he appeared with a bright silver instrument covered with two bushels of keys and played a solo which sounded like three clarionets with the croup.
— from Homeburg Memories by George Fitch

It may also be served in paper boxes, or shells, or fontage cups.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

The two men suggested a better spot in the wood for the donkeys to feed, and they were taken there.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

To have “real, not fictitious, sin” to him, means as much as: Be bold enough to look upon yourself as a great sinner; “Be a sinner,” means: Do not be afraid of appearing to be a sinner in your own sight; Melanchthon is to be a bold sinner in his own eyes in order that he may be the more ready to ascribe all that is good to the grace which works all.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

And if you answer: Man has control over these; they are caused by man’s ignorance and sin, and by his breaking of natural laws—what will you make of those destructive powers over which he has no control; of the hurricane and the earthquake; of poisons, vegetable and mineral; of those parasitic Entozoa whose awful abundance, and awful destructiveness in man and beast, science is just revealing—a new page of danger and loathsomeness?
— from Scientific Essays and Lectures by Charles Kingsley

A beautific smile illumined his face.
— from The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace