Meanwhile, the doctor walked up and down the next room in a very uneasy state; and Mrs. Maylie and Rose looked on, with anxious faces.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

And therefore, if a man makes a right use of his father and grandfather and other aged relations, he will have images which above all others will win him the favour of the Gods.
— from Laws by Plato

[4291] I saw (saith he) a melancholy man at Rome, that by no remedies could be healed, but when by chance he was wounded in the head, and the skull broken, he was excellently cured.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I see the cities of the earth and make myself at random a part of them, I am a real Parisian, I am a habitan of Vienna, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Constantinople, I am of Adelaide, Sidney, Melbourne, I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick, I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons, Brussels, Berne, Frankfort, Stuttgart, Turin, Florence, I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw, or northward in Christiania or Stockholm, or in Siberian Irkutsk, or in some street in Iceland, I descend upon all those cities, and rise from them again.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Helen eyed me as I entered with a kind of gentle, serious scrutiny, and politely asked after Mrs. Markham and Rose.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Those that be admired by them that are more moderate and restrained, are comprehended under things animated: as flocks and herds.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Comminges took his four guards and as many musketeers and ran to the carriage, from which he made the people inside dismount, and brought them to the vehicle which had upset.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Although Pepys states that the treasure which he caused to be buried was gold exclusively, it is very probable that, in the confusion, a pot full of silver money was packed up with the rest; but, at all events, the coincidence appeared too singular to pass over without notice.—B.] and do leave my father to make a second examination of the dirt, which he promises he will do, and, poor man, is mightily troubled for this accident, but I declared myself very well satisfied, and so indeed I am; and my mind at rest in it, being but an accident, which is unusual; and so gives me some kind of content to remember how painful it is sometimes to keep money, as well as to get it, and how doubtful I was how to keep it all night, and how to secure it to London: and so got all my gold put up in bags.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The boat was capsized, and Miss Montrose alone reached the shore.
— from Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

The children take her name, adopt her religion if they are the issue of a mixed marriage, and remain her property in case of divorce.
— from Indo-China and Its Primitive People by Henry Baudesson

When a man marries and reforms, especially when marriage and reform are accompanied with increased income, and settled respectably in Alhambra Villa— relations, before estranged, tender kindly overtures: the world, before austere, becomes indulgent.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

A few days previous to arriving at the scene of action, much mystery and reserve is observed among the ship’s company: they are then secretly collecting stale soapsuds, water, &c., arranging the dramatis personæ, and preparing material.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

46 Gif a Man may ask ransoun of gold and siluer at his prisonare be law or armes.
— from The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood Translated from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay, Knight by Ramon Llull

The number of sentiments a man may acquire, reckoned according to the number of objects in which they are centered, may, of course, be very large; but almost every man has a small number of sentiments—perhaps one only—that greatly surpass all the rest in strength and as regards the proportion of his conduct that springs from them.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Two or three-score graves quite plain; as many more almost rubb'd out.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

"I wish," he said, glancing round from one to another, "that you would all make me a return in kind.
— from Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Martha Finley

A mysterious moth and rust take it away.
— from My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett