“I am not supposing him at all an unnatural creature, in suspecting that he may have learnt to be above his connexions, and to care very little for any thing but his own pleasure, from living with those who have always set him the example of it.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

The thought filled her with anger—and with pride; for, by virtue of having told everyone who expressed surprise at never seeing her at Mme.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

You will easily comprehend, from these particulars, that Mr. Wickham's circumstances are not so hopeless as they are generally believed to be.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Hitherto, whenever there appeared the slightest call for such interference, he had never lacked advisers nor shown himself averse to be guided by their judgment.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Here there is a nurse sitting holding a tray of oranges.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And never see her again!
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

Old Rouault, with a new silk hat and the cuffs of his black coat covering his hands up to the nails, gave his arm to Madame Bovary senior.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

They fall off and are renewed annually in all the species which inhabit the northern and temperate regions of the earth, and in those in which they attain any considerable size; but Sir T. Stamford Raffles was of opinion, and his opinion has been in some measure confirmed by the observations of Major C. Hamilton Smith, that several of the tropical species with small and nearly simple horns are exempted from this general law.
— from The Tower Menagerie Comprising the natural history of the animals contained in that establishment; with anecdotes of their characters and history. by Edward Turner Bennett

It provided for most of its own wants, hence the girl must be taught household arts and science, all of the fine traditional knowledge and skill which made, not drudges, but skilled managers, skilled cooks and needlewomen, skilled hostesses and nurses.
— from The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell

I have noticed that the man who sweeps in front of the Army and Navy Stores has a wealthy South African aristocratic style about him; and when he is off his guard, he has exactly that look on his face which you always see in the face of a man who has is saving up his daughter to marry her to a duke.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 5 by Mark Twain

Mrs. Poynsett feared lest Julius were weak in this matter; but at night she had a visit from him.
— from The Three Brides by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Caleb might pass her in the dark and not see her, and then, too, there were fewer people passing after dark.
— from Caleb West, Master Diver by Francis Hopkinson Smith

But as none such have attempted it, and I have ever since my return from America made their destruction my Profession, and was at first much baffled in my Attempts for want, (as I then believ’d, and have since found) of truly knowing the Nature of those intolerable Vermin: I determined by all means possible to try if I could discover and find out as much of their Nature, Feeding and Breeding, as might be conducive to my being better able to destroy them.
— from A Treatise of Buggs by John Southall

And Nan squeezed his arm tightly in acknowledgment, though she made no verbal answer.
— from The Odds And Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

And in myself, too, many things have perished which, I imagined, would last for ever, and new structures have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are difficult of comprehension.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Tom and Ned saw him at the same instant.
— from Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat; Or, The Rivals of Lake Carlopa by Victor Appleton

At every inconvenient moment she tells one anecdotes of her family history—how her daughters have bought a white rabbit, how her second husband committed suicide (we are not surprised!), how a third cousin has been mentioned in dispatches.
— from Eighteen Months in the War Zone The Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front by Kate John Finze