Lift and change her plate for her, pass her bread, salt, and butter, give her orders to the waiter, and pay her every attention in your power.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

“And you--fellows,” resumed Mousqueton, “stay near Monsieur le Comte d’Artagnan and pay him every attention in your power whilst I go to prepare my lord for his visit.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

He forgave Vronsky, and pitied him, especially after reports reached him of his despairing action.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

If any person had ever a right to the pleasure you mention, I am convinced it is yourself.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

That such a purpose has existed amongst the Jews in the past has been shown throughout the earlier chapters of this book.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Assuming that B adopts the very best lines of play in order to prolong as much as possible his existence, A, if he has first move, can always on his 12th move capture B; and if he has the second move, A can always on his 14th move make the capture.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

The myths, too, faded; they had expressed a fleeting moment of poetic insight, as patriotism had expressed a fleeting moment of unanimous effort; but what force could sustain such accidental harmonies?
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It was easy enough to cross a desert in the night while we were asleep; and it was pleasant to reflect, in the morning, that we in actual person had encountered an absolute desert and could always speak knowingly of deserts in presence of the ignorant thenceforward.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Call him younger brother now, and pull his ears and cease him, for he has married me, your younger sister.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

He had caught a hedgehog, and, wishing to keep it as a pet, had enclosed a small extent of grass-covered ground with a circular fence of wire netting.
— from The Sea-girt Fortress: A Story of Heligoland by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

An agreeable speaker, master of satire, sarcasm, logic, and philosophy, he exercised a salutary and judicious influence.
— from A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson

Ferdinand met them at their door, and performed his efficient and accustomed services.
— from Raspberry Jam by Carolyn Wells

That Milton should ever have attempted what poetry forbids, is only another proof how entirely at this period more absorbing motives had possession of his mind, and overbore his poetical judgment.
— from Milton by Mark Pattison

True he brained that officer with a coil of barbed wire on the end of a pick helve, even as the bullet entered his heart; but he was a great loss to us.
— from No Man's Land by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

The Doctor ate no breakfast; but came to the conclusion that he must see her again, and that as soon as possible; his earnestness and anxiety conquered his diffidence.
— from A Bachelor's Dream by Duchess

Having the worst in these encounters, and perhaps hearing exaggerated accounts of the reinforcement, Sir Brian thought it prudent to submit.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

His way led through a quarter but little known to him, and he was surprised to find that his horse, instead of ambling forward with his customary gentle vigour, stepped carefully from side to side, stopping now and then to curve his neck and prick his ears —as though at some thing of fear unseen in the darkness; while on either hand creatures could be heard rustling and scuttling, and little cold draughts as of wings fanned the rider's cheeks.
— from The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

His fingers on Claude's wrist shook as with a palsy; his ear at Claude's heart was deafened by the pounding of his own.
— from The Side Of The Angels: A Novel by Basil King

But there still remained backwoods in New York and Pennsylvania, though the cities of New York and Philadelphia had each a population of more than one hundred thousand in 1815.
— from Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers