This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for 'Marmar', as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

2. fol. 116.'tis a pleasant story, and related at large by him.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

By the Statutes of the Order Knights of Justice were required to show that all their four grandparents were legally entitled to bear arms, but so many provisions for the exercise of discretion in dispensing with this requirement were at the same time created that to all intents and purposes such a regulation might never have been included.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Those, who prove, or attempt to prove, that such refinements rather tend to the increase of industry, civility, and arts regulate anew our MORAL as well as POLITICAL sentiments, and represent, as laudable or innocent, what had formerly been regarded as pernicious and blameable.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

The said author in another place, showing a reason why Charmides shook and brangled his head, assevered that he was transported and in an ecstasy.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

"The Colwyns must be having a party," said a rather censorious neighbor, who was sitting with a friend in the bow-window of the next house.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

The gold-seeker, whom I sincerely pitied, at length clambered from the pit, with the bitterest disappointment imprinted upon every feature, and proceeded, slowly and reluctantly, to put on his coat, which he had thrown off at the beginning of his labor.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

In all cases where experience, precautions, and prudent steps are required, it is the innocent man who will be most thoroughly corrupted, for he has to drink with closed eyes the dregs and most secret poison of everything put before him.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

She was such a beauty, in spirit as well as in appearance, and she was only slightly touched; yet she was doomed to lie there, living the life of a primitive savage and rotting slowly away.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Mr. Brownlow and party soon after repaired to the Sherman House, where they partook of a sumptuous dinner.
— from Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot by William Gannaway Brownlow

To these men bent on an errand as far as possible removed from interests of this kind, this evidence of Mr. Roberts' pleasure in the promise of future domesticity gave a painful shock, and raised in the minds of more than one of them a doubt—perhaps the first in days—whether a man so heavily weighted with a burden of unacknowledged guilt could show this pleasurable absorption in his new surroundings.
— from The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green

Only groans, and people scuffing, and rolling round on the garret floor, half the night, from twelve to morning!”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

For the rest of her life she was an imbecile: she never left the castle, and spent her time crooning a plaintive song and rocking a cradle.
— from Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes

The free companions of the sixteenth century drove a lucrative business in this particular branch of industry; and when to this was added the more direct profits derived from actual plunder, sack, and ransoming, it was natural that a large fortune was often the result to the thrifty and persevering commander of free lances.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

He had migrated to South Africa as a pure speculation, and ready for any adventure that might come to hand—mining, treasure-seeking, a trip up country, anything that promised possible profit.
— from Renshaw Fanning's Quest: A Tale of the High Veldt by Bertram Mitford

He enjoyed apparent slights, and fancied insults, as a hungry dog his dinner; they helped him so much in hatching quarrels and perpetrating spites and revenges.
— from Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee

Sometimes yeast doughnuts are preferred, so a recipe for doughnuts of this kind is also given.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Said Crook (a patent skin all right, But all the "hair" was out of sight).
— from The Bee's Bayonet (a Little Honey and a Little Sting) Camouflage in Word Painting by Edwin Alfred Watrous