The quick eye of Albert caught the involuntary start with which his friend beheld the new arrival, and, turning to him, he said hastily: “Do you know the woman who has just entered that box?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

8.--Has a wall on one side and is called a "canoe tent" in some catalogues.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

"So that, seriously, dearest Tess," he continued, "since you will probably have to leave at Christmas, it is in every way desirable and convenient that I should carry you off then as my property.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

we all come to it, sooner or later, don't we, sir?" says I. He gave no answer to that—he didn't seem to care about talking.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

And in all cases, there is some show of violence and struggle on the part of the one who has to allow it to be broken.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

A certain truth is sought behind them; they are regarded as entities or as symbols of entities: a world is invented where they are "at home," and from which they are supposed to hail.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It did away with the overgrown estates of the great nobles and churchmen, and converted them into small proprietorships; it removed the heavy burdens of the middle classes, and restricted the taxation to the test-tax per poll levied on unbelievers, and the land-tax levied equally on Moslem and Christian; and it induced a widespread emancipation of the slaves, and a radical improvement in the condition of the unemancipated, who now became almost independent farmers in the service of their non-agricultural Mohammedan masters.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

But this answer makes it perfectly evident that the idea of this being, like all other speculative ideas, is essentially nothing more than a demand upon reason that it shall regulate the connection which it and its subordinate faculties introduce into the phenomena of the world by principles of systematic unity and, consequently, that it shall regard all phenomena as originating from one all-embracing being, as the supreme and all-sufficient cause.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

If I were to see my father in one of these dreadful seizures I am convinced that I should never survive it.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Here is a stanza from a poem intended as a charm to induce slumber (v. 55):— The man who sits and he who walks, And he who sees us with his gaze: Of these we now close up the eyes, Just as we shut this dwelling-house.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

"I could sit and cry too, it's so lonely, isn't it?"
— from Captivity by Leonora Eyles

But in this case I have another excuse: namely that it is a paper to which a good many allusions have been made by contemporary writers on philosophy; and I was told that, for some readers at all events, it would be a convenience that it should be re-printed along with the rest, if only for the sake of reference.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

Afterwards having set apart a great number of equestrians from the mass of the whole people, he distributed the rest of the citizens into five classes, and divided the old from the young: and classed them in such a manner, that the suffrages were not in the power of the multitude, but of the landed proprietors.
— from The republic of Cicero Translated from the Latin; and Accompanied With a Critical and Historical Introduction. by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The crowds attending them have been so astounding, and the relish for them has so far outgone all previous experience, that if I were to set myself the task, 'I will make such or such a sum of money by devoting myself to readings for a certain time,' I should have to go no further than Bond Street or Regent Street, to have it secured to me in a day.
— from Yesterdays with Authors by James Thomas Fields

Already I had captured their vessels, imprisoned their agents, liberated their slaves, and confiscated the ivory, subject to the decision of the Khedive.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

Wherefore, as the body here did partake of soul excellencies, and was also conformed to its spiritual and regenerate principles; so it shall be hereafter a partaker of that glory with which the soul shall be filled, and also be made suitable by that glory to become a partaker and co-partner with it of the eternal excellencies which heaven will put upon it.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

Her hair was almost colorless, though I suppose it had once been dull brown.
— from Marion: The Story of an Artist's Model by Winnifred Eaton

But lastly and chiefly, there is Strong Religious Conviction , which is the main prop of this social system.
— from The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by R. W. Beers

What a charm there is still in the old story!
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury