'I should have told Charley, if he had come to me,' she resumed, as though it were an after-thought, 'that Jenny and I find our teacher very able and very patient, and that she takes great pains with us.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

But they are, in fact, the signs of ability to match them, of power to make them real.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Really, when he opened on me in that unreasonable tone of displeasure after I had scolded Heathcliff till I was hoarse for him, I did not care hardly what they did to each other; especially as I felt that, however the scene closed, we should all be driven asunder for nobody knows how long!
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Furthermore I will point out to you the trees in the vineyard which you gave me, and I asked you all about them as I followed you round the garden.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

He made some valuable acquaintances there, amongst whom were Mr. Porter, a mercer, whose widow he afterwards married, and Mr. Taylor, who by his ingenuity in mechanical inventions, and his success in trade, acquired an immense fortune.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

He was a literary man all over when with an inspired face he laid a wreath on the coffin of some celebrity, or with a grave and solemn face collected signatures for some address; his passion for making the acquaintance of distinguished literary men, his faculty for finding talent even where it was absent, his perpetual enthusiasm, his pulse that went at one hundred and twenty a minute, his ignorance of life, the genuinely feminine flutter with which he threw himself into concerts and literary evenings for the benefit of destitute students, the way in which he gravitated towards the young—all this would have created for him the reputation of a writer even if he had not written his articles.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Pirmi giyung magkaimut-imut ang gastadur, A spendthrift is always in financial straits.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But it is absolutely indispensable, for their enlightenment as to the full significance of their vocations, that both kings and sovereign nations, which rule themselves in accordance with laws of equality, should not allow the class of philosophers to disappear, nor forbid the expression of their opinions, but should allow them to speak openly.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

In these gardens the air is fresh and the birds sing in the trees, and the dust of the city never gets there.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

and I felt glad because, in pronouncing the name, I had secured a sort of power over it, by the mere act of drawing it up out of my dreams and giving it an objective existence in the world of spoken things.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

The general principle upon which they work is the same as the ordinary chain machine, the difference being in the method of applying it for use in special situations.
— from Every-day Science: Volume 6. The Conquest of Nature by Edward Huntington Williams

He failed to do me any good, and I fell away to 90 pounds.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

But I am not capable of handling so rich an argument, and shall therefore only set five Latin poets together, contending in the praise of Cato; and, incidentally, for their own too.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 06 by Michel de Montaigne

His rent was also behind, and, in fact, his affairs were in a desperate condition.
— from Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy Volumes 1 to 3 (of 3) by Charles Reade

To these thoughts you give expression in the gentle movement of the whip as it falls upon the animal's ribs, up to his knees in the black dust which lines the road in front of La Verrerie.
— from Analytical Studies by Honoré de Balzac

The fourth, a masculine ruby balas (peach-coloured) amethystizing, its flame and lustre ending in violet or purple like an amethyst.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

It is the only sense that responds to matter in the gaseous state, and is, for this reason, the only natural means of detecting harmful constituents of the atmosphere.
— from Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. (Francis Marion) Walters