And here we talked, and were pleasant, only my wife in a chagrin humour, she not being pleased with my ki
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

If I offer him a cigar, he smokes it as if it were a twopenny German thing.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

"If she is a confederate," he said, "the notes are gone long ago.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Meanwhile the stream grew much wider, and Cyrus Harding supposed that they would soon reach its mouth.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

For century after century he saw danger in everything that was unfamiliar to him, in anything that happened to be alive, and whenever the spectacle of such things and creatures came before his eyes he imitated their features and attitude, drawing at the same time his own conclusion as to the nature of the evil intentions they concealed.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I never saw such a figure as the fellow cut in what he called a Corsican habit, at one of Mrs. Cornely’s balls, at Carlisle House, Soho.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

And besides, if she tells Mamma” (Sónya looked upon the countess as her mother and called her so)
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

She might have bought the tobacco of her colonies somewhat cheaper, and consequently have sold some of her own commodities somewhat dearer, than she actually does; but she could neither have bought the one cheaper, nor sold the other dearer, than any other country might have done.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

[ 49 ] A preacher is said, in this phraseology, to be “owned” when he makes many converts, and his converts are called his “seals.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

[A2; c] hoodwink s.o. into doing s.t. by giving him sweet talk.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

As Don stepped in at Wallace Ormsby's gate, Zillah opened the front door, ran out, and hastily caught up little Stuart, who was digging in the sand, and carried him struggling and screaming into the house.
— from Mildred at Home: With Something About Her Relatives and Friends. by Martha Finley

"Ma 'alesh!" came her soft whisper; "but I am afraid to trust you—yet.
— from The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer

But the suitor, in spite of a somewhat scandalous story retailed to Sophia by her cousin Mrs. Whalley, was evidently an honourable man, and certainly his suit was not prompted by mercenary motives.
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington

As he approached the office building he was almost certain he saw Baird turn in ahead of him.
— from Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson

I hurried over the river to a thick wood and turned out the horses to graize; sent Drewyer to pursue and kill the wounded buffaloe in order to determine whether it had been wounded by the indians or not, and proceeded myself to reconnoitre the adjacent country having sent R. Fields for the same purpose a different rout.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

A crossroad has suddenly opened in the middle of the monotonous way along which I was travelling quietly, and without thinking of it.
— from An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Complete by Émile Souvestre

"I come not here as a child," he said.
— from Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Hunt Jackson

[131] None but the king and chiefs have slaves, the common people being prevented from holding them, either from their inability to purchase them, or, as I am rather inclined to think, from its being considered as the privilege of the former alone to have them, [88] especially as all those made prisoners in war belong either to the king or the chiefs who have captured them, each one holding such as have been taken by himself or his slaves.
— from The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island by John Rodgers Jewitt

Mary Leighton looked furious and could hardly speak a word all through the meal.
— from Richard Vandermarck: A Novel by Miriam Coles Harris

The Serbs and Hungarians aspired to ethnically and culturally homogenous states and were willing to apply violence towards the achievement of this goal either by forced assimilation of minorities or by their expulsion or worse.
— from Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin