They talked so much, so long, so often, that, out of the very multitude of their words and rumours, grew at last some intelligence.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Then the King looked all around right grimly, and, last of all, his glance came back and rested again upon Sir Richard of the Lea.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

As to what remains, this malady does not very easily discover itself, unless it be extreme and past remedy; forasmuch as reason goes always lame, halting, and that too as well with falsehood as with truth; and therefore ‘tis hard to discover her deviations and mistakes.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

On the summit of a rising ground, a little in advance of the enemy, appeared a short and heavy looking man; this man was surrounded by officers.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

You’re going to have a relapse going about like that.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This person, however, improved on acquaintance, and Ralph grew at last to have a certain grudging tolerance, even an undemonstrative respect, for him.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

I thought I had cured her, but on the following day the frenzy went up to the brain, and in her delirium she pronounced at random Greek and Latin words without any meaning, and then no doubt whatever was entertained of her being possessed of the evil spirit.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

—En el extremo sur se extiende una meseta desprovista de árboles excepto en la parte más austral, donde aquéllos reaparecen, gracias a la humedad que, como le expliqué ya, traen los vientos del Pacífico.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Activity and readiness go a long way in our profession.
— from Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Of course these three stages may at some future time be analyzed into lesser degrees, with useful result—but at present I only desire to draw attention to them in the rough, so to speak, to show that it is from them and from their passage one into another that there has flowed by a perfectly natural logic and concatenation the strange panorama of humanity's religious evolution—its superstitions and magic and sacrifices and dancings and ritual generally, and later its incantations and prophecies, and services of speech and verse, and paintings and forms of art and figures of the gods.
— from Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter

Jacky pointed to a rising ground at least six miles off.
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

There stood the white angel, radiant, glorious; and looking up she saw him smiling down at her with the eyes of the boy.
— from Dreamland by Julie M. Lippmann

After a rapid glance at Lower Canada, Professor Johnston crossed the St Lawrence, in order to complete the survey of New Brunswick, which, before leaving England, he had been commissioned to make for the Government of the colony.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 434, December, 1851 by Various

He was a thorough mathematician, a celebrated grammarian, a renowned geographer and linguist, but I then thought he had no more ear for poetry or music, no more eye for painting,—the painting of God, or man,—than the stalled ox, or the Greenland seal.
— from Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz

Obj. 2: Further, Augustine remarks (Gen. ad lit.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

I have for a number of years past been connected with the University of the city of New-York, first as a resident graduate and lately as the Professor of a modern language, and have ever since my connection with the institution resided in the building on Washington Square, spending most of my time in authorship and instruction in a room, which for several years I have occupied for that purpose.
— from Letters of a Lunatic A Brief Exposition of My University Life, During the Years 1853-54 by G. J. (George J.) Adler