Speak to him on Friday morning: occupy yourself afterwards (for the sake of your own interests with your employer) in leaving your unfinished work in as little confusion as possible, and quit this place on Saturday.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

for I think you have a little cold, and Patty has been washing the kitchen.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Maggie was seating herself at the table with her work, and looking chill and proud; and he–he looked like a simpleton for having come.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

And they gone, I took Mrs. Turner and Hollworthy home to my house, and there gave wine and sweetmeats; but I find Mrs. Hollworthy but a mean woman, I think, for understanding, only a little conceited, and proud, and talking, but nothing extraordinary in person, or discourse, or understanding.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

When Ludlow market hums And Ludlow chimes are playing "The conquering hero comes," Come you home a hero, Or come not home at all, The lads you leave will mind you
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

He contented himself by saying, “Oh!” absently, got a drink of water out of a pitcher standing there, and leaving Cornelius a prey to some inexplicable emotion—that made him embrace with both arms the worm-eaten rail of the verandah as if his legs had failed—went in again and lay down on his mat to think.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

For as like causes always produce like effects, when in any instance we find our expectation to be disappointed, we must conclude that this irregularity proceeds from some difference in the causes.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

We will say, "A noted wit, an intriguer, but in no way austere, a friend of Romieu, and a supporter of Guizot possessing the manners of the world, and the habits of the roulette table, self-satisfied, clever, combining a certain liberality of ideas with a readiness to accept useful crimes, finding means to wear a gracious smile with bad teeth, leading a life of pleasure, dissipated but reserved, ugly, good-tempered, fierce, well-dressed, intrepid, willingly leaving a brother prisoner under bolts and bars, and ready to risk his head for a brother Emperor, having the same mother as Louis Bonaparte, and like Louis Bonaparte, having some father or other, being able to call himself Beauharnais, being able to call himself Flahaut, and yet calling himself Morny, pursuing literature as far as light comedy, and politics, as far as tragedy, a deadly free liver, possessing all the frivolity consistent with assassination, capable of being sketched by Marivaux and treated of by Tacitus, without conscience, irreproachably elegant, infamous, and amiable, at need a perfect duke.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

My first visit would be to my sister, who inhabited a little cottage, a part of Adrian's gift, on the borders of Windsor Forest.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If the particular States in this country are disposed to stand in a similar relation to each other, and to drop the project of a general DISCRETIONARY SUPERINTENDENCE, the scheme would indeed be pernicious, and would entail upon us all the mischiefs which have been enumerated under the first head; but it would have the merit of being, at least, consistent and practicable Abandoning all views towards a confederate government, this would bring us to a simple alliance offensive and defensive; and would place us in a situation to be alternate friends and enemies of each other, as our mutual jealousies and rivalships, nourished by the intrigues of foreign nations, should prescribe to us.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

After leaving Ceylon and passing through the Maldive islands, which, though very low and level, are green and [Pg 51] picturesque, no object of interest presents itself until the port of Aden is reached.
— from The Overland Guide-book A complete vade-mecum for the overland traveller, to India viâ Egypt. by Barber, James, active 1837-1839

Then she stopped suddenly with a low cry and pointed to the right wing, which directly faced them.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

And there is a guide called Jesus, and He loves everybody, and He guides people and little children, and perhaps dogs like you, Toby, right across to the New Jerusalem and the Celestial City.
— from The Children's Pilgrimage by L. T. Meade

Fanatically I kept all the windows open, wore as little clothing as possible ... adopted a certain walk on tiptoe, like a person walking on egg-shells, to develop the calves of my legs from their thinness to a more proportionate shape.
— from Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

"On a low clerk, a play-actor, a play-writer, or—or——" "Take courage, Mr. Sympson!
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

She had entered the Préfecture sullenly, desperately, half expecting to be sent to a lonely cell and perhaps loaded with chains,—she had heard tell of such things,—and, instead, had been treated with kindness by a gentle matron, her body washed and clothed, her stomach made glad with rich soup and bread and milk, while Tartar was amply provided for before her own eyes.
— from Mlle. Fouchette: A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray

It would anger the old man that talk, ay, even when he was the old frail frame of what once he was,—like a dead and withered ash-tree, dourly awaiting the death gale to send it crashing down, to lie where once its shade fell in the hot summer days of its youth,—and the blood would rise up on his neck, where the flesh had shrunk like old cracked parchment, and left cords and pipes of arteries and veins, gnarled like old ivy round a tree.
— from The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars

The rivers of Nature flow in forms that Art can never equal: their natural modifications, particularly in mountainous places, are sufficiently numerous; a little [Pg 129] management heightens or diminishes all their expressions, varies their appearances, and adapts them to scenes of any character: their banks are soon adorned, even in the richest manner; for roses, a thousand other shrubs, and most perennial flowers, will grow as easily, and with as little culture, as primroses and briars do.
— from An Explanatory Discourse by Tan Chet-qua of Quang-chew-fu, Gent. by Chambers, William, Sir

At this, Rose raised a lamentable cry, and pearly tears gushed forth.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

[517] or to beg the means of buying the grounds, erecting the buildings, and carrying on the operations of colleges and schools for the convenience of the rich and leisured classes; and paying, besides, the expenses of those youths who are without resources, that they may fill their own places when they are worn out by work.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various