A telegram to this effect would be cold and cryptic, a personal visit seemed each moment more impossible.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

She allowed, therefore, half an hour to pass away; and as at that moment all was silence in the old castle, as nothing was heard but the eternal murmur of the waves--that immense breaking of the ocean--with her pure, harmonious, and powerful voice, she began the first couplet of the psalm then in great favor with the Puritans: “Thou leavest thy servants, Lord, To see if they be strong; But soon thou dost afford Thy hand to lead them on.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

She was a wooden ship, long and narrow, bark-rigged, and a propeller; very slow, moving not over eight miles an hour.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The details of such a systematic phobia take their real motivation from concealed determinants which must have nothing to do with the inhibition in gait; it is for this reason that the form of such a phobia varies so and is so contradictory in different people.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

Hard work and protracted vigils soon aged the high functionary, who was ever unable to win his wife's heart; but he loved her and sheltered her none the less constantly.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

At the end of the day a police van stopped at the door before the house. It was still raining and the streets were all flooded.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

As an expression of Newman's spiritual struggle the Apologia Pro Vita Sua is perhaps the most significant.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

I was singing that once when a fellow-lawyer said to me: “You have a powerful voice, sir.”
— from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It found us in a prodigious valley, strewn with rocks and where ran a foaming river.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

If not, then as soon as all is over ,” and Prince Vasíli sighed to intimate what he meant by the words all is over , “and the count’s papers are opened, the will and letter will be delivered to the Emperor, and the petition will certainly be granted.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It was no religion at all which they as yet supposed to be the object of Christ's teaching, but a simple preparation for a pitiably vulgar scheme of earthly aggrandizement.
— from Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey

At which place, under the safe convoy of the spirit Ariel, they, after a pleasant voyage, soon arrived.
— from Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb

7 s. 6 d. Newman’s Apologia pro Vitâ Suâ. Crown 8vo.
— from Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to C.E. 1885 by Magnus, Katie, Lady

When a piece of potassium, for example, is thrown into a vessel of water, its attraction for the water is such, and of the water for it, that it instantly takes fire, and the two blaze away, particle violently seizing on particle until the elements of the water unite part for part with the metal.
— from Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects by Caithness, James Sinclair, 14th earl of

3 is a plan view, showing the arrangement of the tubes which enclose the springs.
— from Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various

I met some [195] interesting people there on my last trip and they have invited me to pay them a prolonged visit," she said.
— from Suzanna Stirs the Fire by Emily Calvin Blake

In announcing the publication of the new, revised, and greatly augmented Edition of this important and interesting work, which has been considered unique in biographical literature, the publishers beg to direct attention to the following extract from the author's preface:—"A revised edition of the 'Lives of the Queens of England,' embodying the important collections which have been brought to light since the appearance of earlier impressions, is now offered to the world, embellished with Portraits of every Queen, from authentic and properly verified sources.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

What had brought her back to the flat? If she and Anisty were confederates, as one was inclined at times to believe,—if such were the case, Anisty had the jewels, and there was nothing else of any particular value so persistently to entice such expert and accomplished burglars back to his flat.
— from The Brass Bowl by Louis Joseph Vance