Had Smerdyakov killed and robbed him, and the son been accused of it, that would, of course, have suited Smerdyakov.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

the large woodpecker or log cock, the lark woodpeckers and the small white woodpecker with a read head are the same with those of the Atlantic states and are found exclusively in the timbered country.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I began to answer, rather hotly, and then saw the gulf before me.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Yes, it was like a dream in which a man fancies that a ruffian is coming to attack him, and raises his arm to strike that ruffian a terrible blow which he knows should annihilate him, but then feels that his arm drops powerless and limp like a rag, and the horror of unavoidable destruction seizes him in his helplessness.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

His friends and acquaintances affirm and reaffirm his ability to succeed, and make each successive triumph easier of achievement than its predecessor.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Raising his rifle with the utmost care, and renewing his aim three several times, he fired.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

As related here, all this sounds quite easy.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The diary declares "it is a burning, blistering shame," and relates her attempts to secure other work for him.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

A very small stretch of imagination was necessary to thrust pistols into his belt and a cutlass into his hand, and reveal him as the settler-adventurer of a half-savage disturbed country, equally ready to work or to fight, and more at home in the shifts and expedients of the wilderness than among the bonds of civilisation; yet always retaining, as English adventurers will, certain dainty personal particulars—such, for instance, as that prejudice in favour of clean linen, which only the highest civilisation can cultivate into perfection.
— from The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

One evening I returned at the appointed gong-stroke of dinner, and was beginning, according to my custom, to greet the hound with ingratiating politeness, when the one of chief authority held up a reproving hand, at the same time exclaiming: “No, Mr. Kong, you must not encourage Hercules with your amiable condescension, for just now he is in very bad odour with us all.”
— from The Mirror of Kong Ho by Ernest Bramah

The youth copied and recopied the famous “statement,” written on a hundred and fifty folio sheets, besides the corroborative documents, and the summing up (contained in one page), with the estimates bracketed, the captions in a running hand, and the sub-titles in a round one.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

“Thou art right,” he answered; “the spears are clean.
— from The Ghost Kings by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

And yet it was evident to him now that this birth of a real heir at the squire's house, with a fair prospect that the acres would descend in a right line, was regarded by them all with almost superstitious satisfaction.
— from John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

By a miracle, one after another, the gabs are realised; Hugon acknowledges the superiority of Charles, who returns to France, enriches St. Denis with incomparable relics, and forgives the queen.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

His first purchaser put the tackle on him at Dunmore and rode him away the same day .
— from Old Melbourne Memories Second Edition, Revised by Rolf Boldrewood

I saw that Hogvardt's sense of responsibility was heavy; he always regarded himself as the shepherd, his employers as the sheep.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 by Various

Pheasants in the tall trees of the Pangbourne woods, larks on their grassy nests above the gravel-pit at Wansdon, swallows in the eaves at Robin Hill, and the sparrows of Mayfair, all made a dreamless night of it, soothed by the lack of wind.
— from To Let by John Galsworthy

Such a situation as this indicates the same lack of wisdom that would be shown in employing willing and skillful workmen to garner a rich harvest, and then sending them into the fields with wholly insufficient and inadequate tools.
— from New Ideals in Rural Schools by George Herbert Betts