“You’re a regular reactionist, I see.” “Really, I have never considered what I am.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Marianne slept through every blast; and the travellers—they had a rich reward in store, for every present inconvenience.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The battle relieved me from any further anxiety for the safety of the territory within my jurisdiction, and soon after receiving reinforcements I suggested to the general-in-chief a forward movement against Vicksburg.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

But the artistic temperament that they create, or at any rate reveal, is still more to me.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

This fell out according to his prayer, for his hands with the arms being cut off from his body, when he was slain in battle, remain uncorrupted to this day, and are kept in a silver shrine, as revered relics, in St. Peter's church in the royal city, 314 which has taken its name from Bebba, one of its former queens.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

The result is that whilst the same crests and supporters are duplicated over and over again, they at any rate remain in Scotland simple, graceful, and truly heraldic, even when judged by the most rigid mediæval standard.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

At a reception recently, I saw the granddaughter of one of America's greatest authors smoking cigarettes.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

We venture to affirm, that the numerous observations, which we have collected, will give to our work all the accuracy rigorously required in so interesting a narrative.
— from Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 Undertaken by Order of the French Government, Comprising an Account of the Shipwreck of the Medusa, the Sufferings of the Crew, and the Various Occurrences on Board the Raft, in the Desert of Zaara, at St. Louis, and at the Camp of Daccard. to Which Are Subjoined Observations Respecting the Agriculture of the Western Coast of Africa, from Cape Blanco to the Mouth of the Gambia. by Alexandre Corréard

Every time a reed rustled I seemed to feel the sharp teeth in my flesh already; and indeed it's a wonder how I ever escaped, for I could hear them moving on every side of me; but somehow or other none of them offered to touch me.
— from Harper's Young People, August 2, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

And the audacious ruffian, relapsing into security, attested his innocence by a gentle laugh and the sweetest of his smiles.
— from The Infidel; or, the Fall of Mexico. Vol. I. by Robert Montgomery Bird

For in addition to the regular routine of its great warehousing function, there came, with the rapidly increasing number of troops, hospitals and refugees, rapidly increasing special duties for it to perform; greatly increased quantities of goods to be shipped.
— from With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American Effort by Edward Hungerford

Pass the end of a rope round its standing part, and bring it up through the bight.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

The sight of the encircling peaks and ridges, rising in solemn grandeur out of the darkness into the light of the stars, comforted her.
— from The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright

They belonged to a lower class of the bourgeoisie, retired shopkeepers, and a Red Republican is sworn to hate of the bourgeoisie, high or low; while a beautiful young author pushing his way into the Chaussee d’Antin does not proclaim to the world that his parents had sold hosiery in the Rue St. Denis.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

country comparison to the world: 29 Transnational Issues ::Libya Disputes - international: Libya has claimed more than 32,000 sq km in southeastern Algeria and about 25,000 sq km in the Tommo region of Niger in a currently dormant dispute; various Chadian rebels from the Aozou region reside in southern Libya Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 8,000 (Palestinian Territories) (2007) Trafficking in persons: current situation: Libya is a transit and destination country for men and women from sub-Saharan Africa and Asia trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Libya is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to address trafficking in persons in 2007 when compared to 2006, particularly in the area of investigating and prosecuting trafficking offenses; Libya did not publicly release any data on investigations or punishment of any trafficking offenses (2008) page last updated on November 11, 2009
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

By Willard N. Clute. Living as I do in the midst of a region rich in specimens of the ternate Botrychiums , I have taken more than ordinary interest in the discussion of the relative rank to which the various forms should be assigned.
— from The Fern Bulletin, October 1903 A Quarterly Devoted to Ferns by Various