I asked, in considerable surprise.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Old Max told me all this, for it happened a good while ago; but shortly before Ginger and I came Smith had been taken back again.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The only ill-usage which either he or Mrs. Rubelle had inflicted on Miss Halcombe consisted, so far as I could see, in the first offence of hiding her away.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

"Well now, innocent …" said the lady, "I don't want to start making any pronouncements that might have serious consequences, I don't really know you after all, it means they're dealing with a serious criminal if they send an investigating committee straight out to get him.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

At nine o’clock to White Hall about Mr. Maes’s business at the Council, which stands in an ill condition still.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Adj. indicating &c. v., indicative, indicatory; denotative, connotative; diacritical, representative, typical, symbolic, pantomimic, pathognomonic[obs3], symptomatic, characteristic, demonstrative, diagnostic, exponential, emblematic, armorial; individual &c. (special) 79.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

"Eberhard's apparent defection will be your rival's death-blow, for Victor's recognition will be its natural and immediate consequence," said the Chancellor.
— from Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden

Shortly before the end his eyes assumed a strained look, and I could see he was rapidly going.
— from The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont by Louis de Rougemont

There was no mockery in Meeta's voice when he replied—"Great is the Sahib's favour," and laid the little man down in the bed, while the ayah, sitting in the moonlight at the doorway, lulled him to sleep with an interminable canticle such as they sing in the Roman Catholic Church at Parel.
— from Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Rudyard Kipling

"And as far as I can see there is nothing there either.
— from Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

All I can say is, that I am sorry for what has occurred, but intend to forget all about it; though, as those who win may laugh, I might be allowed, if I chose, to make fun of you.”
— from Digby Heathcote: The Early Days of a Country Gentleman's Son and Heir by William Henry Giles Kingston

[187] CHAPTER XVIII IN WHICH THE PIRATE APPEARS IN A FROLICSOME HUMOUR The fainting fit which terminated my conversation with Evie alarmed me tremendously, and as soon as I could summon assistance I sent for a doctor.
— from The Motor Pirate by G. Sidney Paternoster

That paper dug-out cost money, I tell ye; and it costs something to travel the hull length of the land.
— from Voyage of the Paper Canoe A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5 by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop

The tourist who has pored over his Baedeker will learn that Potsdam has 53,000 inhabitants and is "charmingly situated"—it depends on your temperament what the charm is, and to guide-book framers all tourists have the same temperament—on an island in the Havel "which here expands into a series of lakes bounded by wooded hills."
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

Professor Pictet, in his excellent Review of this work, in commenting on early transitional forms, and taking birds as an illustration, cannot see how the successive modifications of the anterior limbs of a supposed prototype could possibly have been of any advantage.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Gordon Wright, while the storm was at its climax, sat down to write letters, and wrote half a dozen.
— from Confidence by Henry James