With a prospect of taking the lead in another periodical, he, at last, voluntarily gave up his employment with us, and, through all this considerable period, we had seen but one presentment of the man-a quiet, patient, industrious, and most gentlemanly person, commanding the utmost respect and good feeling by his unvarying deportment and ability.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Objects are sucked, fingered, and thumped; drawn and pushed, handled and thrown; in short, experi
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Prince S. ran up to her and persuaded her, at last, to come home with them.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She who is hospitably inclined can ask people half a dozen times to their once if she wants to, and they show their friendliness by coming.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

For, when a man with a wooden leg lies prone on his stomach to peep under bedsteads; and hops up ladders, like some extinct bird, to survey the tops of presses and cupboards; and provides himself an iron rod which he is always poking and prodding into dust-mounds; the probability is that he expects to find something.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Carry through to Italy thy chosen men and bravest souls; in Latium must thou war down a people hard and rough in living.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The worthy Momolo was the only one who answered her, and he said, kindly, that she had done quite right to come, and put her a chair between my brother and myself.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

When Mrs. Gray heard it she stopped short, patting her nephew on the cheek; for he was sitting beside her now in a place hastily arranged by the butler.
— from Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls by Josephine Chase

Then the queen privily called unto her a page of her chamber that was swiftly horsed, to whom she said, "Go thou when thou seest thy time, and bear this ring unto Sir Launcelot, and pray him as he loveth me, that he will see me and rescue me.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Thus determined, she reconnoitred the field, and practised her address so successfully, that in less than half an hour she was loaded with ermine and embroidery, and disposed to retreat with her burden, when her regards were solicited by a splendid bundle, which she descried at some distance lying on the ground.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It was natural that the truth should be glossed over, especially in despatches addressed to the court of his daughter Lucrezia, to which the latter annalist probably had access.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 2 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630. by James Dennistoun

In a minute more I was standing by Mrs. Sandford and introduced to Capt. Boulanger, who also asked me to dance, and engaged me for the next but one; and then Mr. Caxton brought up one of his brother cadets and presented him, and he asked me, and looked disappointed when for both the next dances I was obliged to refuse him.
— from Daisy by Susan Warner

Up one side of the snowdrift and down the other it flew, threatening destruction to anything in its path, but a pull here and a push there guided it safely past every obstruction.
— from Kasba (White Partridge): A Story of Hudson Bay by George R. Ray

As Prince Henry appears to be about seven years old, that would fix the painting of the picture about 1499.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

Of course we both rose to welcome him most heartily: this however he gave us no opportunity of doing; but laying down a small mahogany case, which he carried in his hand, and putting his arms akimbo, he loudly exclaimed without any exordium, “Why, then, Cornet Jack Barrington, are you not the greatest scoundrel that ever disgraced civilised society?” 48 .
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir

"' 'Clare,' said the other affectionately, putting her arms round her friend's waist, 'you really oughtn't to take up these ideas.
— from The Prophet's Mantle by E. (Edith) Nesbit