"Come out on the roof with me," said the cat; and Rudy quite understood him, for the language of fowls, ducks, cats, and dogs, is as easily understood by a young child as his own native tongue.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

25 PORTHOS I nstead of returning directly home, d’Artagnan alighted at the door of M. de Treville, and ran quickly up the stairs.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

" This speech was delivered with an energy and readiness quite unusual with Mr. Casaubon.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

And when Dunyásha willingly promised to do it all for her, Natásha sat down on the floor, took her old ball dress, and fell into a reverie quite unrelated to what ought to have occupied her thoughts now.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Nature cannot but always act rightly, quite unconcerned as to what may be the consequences.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

In that country a great many of the critics are theologians, more or less disguised; and these gentlemen are, as a rule, quite unable to write rationally about creative literature.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

And who will consider withal his so many military virtues, his diligence, foresight, patience, discipline, subtlety, magnanimity, resolution, and good fortune, wherein (though we had not had the authority of Hannibal to assure us) he was the first of men, the admirable beauty and symmetry of his person, even to a miracle, his majestic port and awful mien, in a face so young, ruddy, and radiant: “Qualis, ubi Oceani perfusus Lucifer unda, Quem Venus ante alios astrorum diligit ignes, Extulit os sacrum coelo, tenebrasque resolvit;”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

And us again * revive, quicken us.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Aglaya rushed quickly up to him, and was just in time to receive him in her arms, and to hear with dread and horror that awful, wild cry as he fell writhing to the ground.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My aunt remained quiet; until again some stray tears found their way to her cheeks.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Not being much shot at, they are rather bold, and remain quite unconcerned when natives alone are present, but when I came out to look at them, they would stare for a minute or two and then make off.
— from A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 2 (of 2) by Henry O. (Henry Ogg) Forbes

The paretic has defects of memory, but he is, as a rule, quite unconscious of them.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

“He that has oft’nest most disguis’d the Truth, “And render’d Sense and Reason quite uncouth; “Who Learning hath, by Artifice abus’d, “And by false Glasses vulgar Eyes amus’d; “Who seldom in his real Shape was seen, “For ever different to what h’ hath been; “Him for our royal Consort we select: “Begin—and Pertness all your Aims direct; [Pg 23] “And still to urge ye on to further Hope, “These Trophies wait the Man who lashes Pope .
— from The Scribleriad, and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue by Hervey, John Hervey, Baron

But she dared not face her mother when she should hear of her misconduct; and when they entered the house, she thrust the note into the hand of the maid, bidding her give it to Mrs. Howard, and ran quickly up to her own little room.
— from Jessie's Parrot by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

Then the enemy's batteries and riflemen opened a heavy fire on his position, when his men would sit down in the rifle-pits and remain quiet until the cannonade ceased.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

Just then Brown gave a sharp ejaculation and ran quickly up the steps with the lantern.
— from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

His eyes travelled from the table to the window, where the man in black still sat and read quite unconcernedly.
— from The Duke's Motto: A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

I'm so sorry and disappointed, but the fact is I am faced to-night with harassing business of my own and really quite unfit for company.
— from The Man with the Double Heart by Muriel Hine

Was he therefore not to resent the injuries offered her because wrongs were heaped on himself, or, after remaining quiet under the disappointments of [Pg 10] years, are we to suppose that at the end of that period his own private grievances ceased to be intolerable, and that the public provocations which became urgent had no effect upon him?
— from Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift (Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734) by Jonathan Swift