All the elderly ladies whom Archer knew regarded any woman who loved imprudently as necessarily unscrupulous and designing, and mere simple-minded man as powerless in her clutches.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The ships sailed by and saluted the castle with the boom of the cannon, and Kronenburg returned the salute, "Boom, boom."
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
As it rolled clanging into the street, Jimmie began to scream and kicked repeatedly at his father's shins.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
She was assured to the contrary, again kissed, restored to me, and I carried her away; but, alas!
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Without looking to the right or left to notice the scene of rural wealth, on which he had so often gloated, he went straight to the stable, and with several hearty cuffs and kicks roused his steed most uncourteously from the comfortable quarters in which he was soundly sleeping, dreaming of mountains of corn and oats, and whole valleys of timothy and clover.
— from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Enioi || 29 d' autôn kai rhêtôs apephênanto mêdemian einai tês psychês dynamin, hê logizometha, all' hypo tôn aisthêtôn agesthai pathôn hêmas kathaper boskêmata pros mêden ananeusai mêd' anteipein dynamenous.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
His fire unquenched and his undying worm By "land in severalty" (charming term!) Are cooled and killed, respectively, at last, And he to his new holding anchored fast!
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
He has been staying with his father in London, and he is coming to us tomorrow to stop till next month, and keep Rachel’s birthday.”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
He faded back behind some of the cars for cover and kept rolling as the riot bus disgorged a flying squadron of helmeted cops who began to methodically and savagely grab, cuff, and toss the groaning crowd lying flat on the ground.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow
The sight of the distant spot that, a year before, had held such possibilities for him, when, on the summit of the Divide, he had chosen between two widely separated ways of life, brought to him, now, a keener realization of the fact that he was again placed where he must choose.
— from When A Man's A Man by Harold Bell Wright
Endlich alle Knöpfe rissen
— from The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Arthur F. J. Remy
The Cool of the Evening, being a Circumstance with which Holy Writ introduces this great Scene, it is poetically described by our Author, who has also kept religiously to the Form of Words, in which the three several Sentences were passed upon Adam , Eve , and the Serpent.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir
* * June was nearly over, and the year was wearing round to the anniversary of Edward's wedding–day, the anniversaries of those bright days which the young bride and bridegroom had loitered away by the trout–streams in the Hampshire meadows, when some most unlooked–for visitors made their appearance at Kemberling Retreat.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Bhutan's hydropower potential and its attraction for tourists are key resources.
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
And know, Rupert, if you do not know it already, that I have absolute power over the estates of the Chace, and that if you defy me I can leave them where I will."
— from The Cornet of Horse: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Stay in your suits and keep ready.
— from First on the Moon by Jeff Sutton
The period of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions seemed to have returned.
— from Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 by Albert Bushnell Hart
When they insisted that it was true, he scratched his head disgustedly and kept reiterating his belief in the chap's canine ancestry.
— from A Man's World by Albert Edwards
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