st stickleback, Benjy had carried off our hero to the canal, in defiance of Charity; and between them, after a whole afternoon's popjoying, they had caught three or four small, coarse fish and a perch, averaging perhaps two and a half ounces each, which Tom bore home in rapture to his mother as a precious gift, and which she received like a true mother with equal rapture, instructing the cook nevertheless, in a private interview, not to prepare the same for the Squire's dinner.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

He didn't at all feel like a character in a play, the appropriate feeling in an unconventional situation—instead, he had a sense of coming home.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

I had a "caractère intraitable," and perverse to a miracle.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

(1) “Given a Pair of Propositions of Relation, which contain between them a pair of codivisional Classes, and which are proposed as Premisses: to ascertain what Conclusion, if any, is consequent from them.” (2) “Given a Trio of Propositions of Relation, of which every two contain a pair of codivisional Classes, and which are proposed as a Syllogism: to ascertain whether the proposed Conclusion is consequent from the proposed Premisses, and, if so, whether it is complete .”
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

The reposeful attitude of watchful slumber in which the Royal lion and unicorn are so often depicted, may perhaps be in the nature of submission to the Biblical teaching of Isaiah that the lion shall lie down with the lamb (and possibly therefore also with the unicorn), in these times of peace which have succeeded those earlier days when "the lion beat the unicorn round and round the town." Fig.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Good is she also when men contend at the games, for there too the goddess is with them and profits them: and he who by might and strength gets the victory wins the rich prize easily with joy, and brings glory to his parents.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

I found it a pretty town, and had the satisfaction of beholding the outside of the office of the journal from which I have just quoted.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

she said at last in a plaintive tone, after she had spent a minute or so in vainly pursuing a large bright thing, that looked sometimes like a doll and sometimes like a work-box, and was always in the shelf next above the one she was looking at.
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

So I'll start off with the one I'm currently painting, and put the assertion to him when he comes for his sitting this evening.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

How was I to know that what is a pastime to all other men was death to you?
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

CHAPTER LI BATHSHEBA TALKS WITH HER OUTRIDER THE arrangement for getting back again to Weather- bury had been that Oak should take the place of Poor- grass in Bathsheba's conveyance and drive her home, it being discovered late in the afternoon that Joseph was suffering from his old complaint, a multiplying eye, and was, therefore, hardly trustworthy as coachman and protector to a woman.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

And presently through a gate from the garden came an old lady.
— from The Eagle's Nest by S. E. Cartwright

He vented his indignation to the toothless Bishop, who crossed his breast with his fingers, covered with diamonds, and preached temperance and moderation in inarticulate sounds.
— from Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Spent the afternoon in reading and prayer, as preparatory to a meeting of the missionaries at night.
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

When, at a later period, the plotting of Catholics, suborned by the Pope and Philip, against the throne and person of the Queen, made more rigorous measures necessary; when it was thought indispensable to execute as traitors those Roman seedlings—seminary priests and their disciples—who went about preaching to the Queen's subjects the duty of carrying out the bull by which the Bishop of Rome had deposed and excommunicated their sovereign, and that "it was a meritorious act to kill such princes as were excommunicate," even then, the men who preached and practised treason and murder experienced no severer treatment than that which other "heretics" had met with at the Queen's hands.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) by John Lothrop Motley

By this time we were close into Anzac beach, and had anchored preparatory to a picket-boat coming off to take our mails, etc.
— from The Dardanelles: Colour Sketches From Gallipoli by Norman Wilkinson

Having subjected a specimen which he found in the river-bed to the test of his crucible, he satisfied himself as to its properties, and proceeded to ascertain its geological position and relations.
— from Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers by Samuel Smiles

[8] On the bosses that are between each compartment are painted the arms of Sir Thomas Bodley himself.
— from With the King at Oxford: A Tale of the Great Rebellion by Alfred John Church

That he could not frame a case where the interests of Hanover were less connected with Great Britain; and that therefore this would be a precedent to all posterity to make Hanover always in question.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 2 (of 3) by Horace Walpole