[Fire-alarm; a pause] I come here and find their mother shouting and angry.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The more I looked at everything in the house, the more I was struck with its quasi-European character; and had the walls only been pasted over with extracts from the Illustrated London News and Punch , I could have almost fancied myself in a shepherd’s hut upon my master’s sheep-run.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Some call him a picture; I call him a panorama!
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

It is evident that the keeper of a prison in Cuba has a profitable occupation.
— from Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White

Further, a poor investment climate hampers attracting outside investment slowing the inflow of foreign exchange.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Although there is no word of the epidemic continuing in Scotland in 1624, it was undoubtedly as prevalent in England in that year as the year before, and prevalent in country houses as [Pg 32] well as in towns and cities.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

The description in the Book of Job, though doubtless vague, and in the highest degree poetical, has yet sufficient marks to render the identification perfectly easy, while there are certain peculiarities mentioned, which even a poetical imagination could hardly apply to the Elephant.
— from Eccentricities of the Animal Creation. by John Timbs

A porter, in cocked hat, and with a staff of office, admitted us into a spacious court before the palace, and directed us to a garden on one side, raised as much as twenty feet above the level on which we stood.
— from Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Greek thinkers had approximated closest to the Hebraic God-idea when they conceived one supreme, immanent reason in the universe; and Philo, in carrying his audiences beyond this to the transcendent-immanent Being, transformed the Greek cosmical concept into a Divine power of the One Being.
— from Philo-Judæus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich

I've strained A point in coming here at all; 'tis said That Susan Anthony (I hear she's dead
— from Shapes of Clay by Ambrose Bierce