Brother Solomon and Sister Jane were rich, and the family candor and total abstinence from false politeness with which they were always received seemed to them no argument that their brother in the solemn act of making his will would overlook the superior claims of wealth.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

" Siddhartha entered the chamber, where his father was sitting on a mat of bast, and stepped behind his father and remained standing there, until his father felt that someone was standing behind him.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

2 spear, powered by a rubber sling, the general form of which resembles a rifle.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When a neurosis breaks out in later life, analysis regularly shows that it is a direct continuation of that infantile malady which had perhaps developed only obscurely and incipiently.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The writer remembers the horror that spread through a large Wesleyan circle, with which he was connected, when a distinguished minister of that body, just returned from Europe, casually remarked that ‘the theatre at Rome seemed to be poorly supported.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

“All right!” said the seaman; “wait a bit; Neb is well able to carry help to his master.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

At which terrible judgment the king of Egypt was in disorder, upon the fear into which he reasoned himself, lest his people should be destroyed, and that the manner of this death was also reproachful, so that he was forced in part to recover himself from his wicked temper to a sounder mind, for he gave leave for the Hebrews themselves to depart.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

At the same instant an empty dog-cart, the horse cantering, the reins trailing, appeared round the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards us.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

"Is it all right?" said Tinker softly.
— from The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Edgar Jepson

And he announced the fact with a roguish significance that made Miss Greta cast down her eyes.
— from The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins

028:008 They quickly left the tomb and ran, still terrified but full of unspeakable joy, to carry the news to His disciples.
— from Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Matthew by Richard Francis Weymouth

Just then a rainbow spanned the island, and on its arch was enthroned the child Jesus, dressed in a coat that Rupert knew to be his own.
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

At any rate, she took care to save appearances, and that was all he asked for.
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant

His mind was busy with the past; but he had the peculiar faculty of all great and resolute spirits, that of casting from him rapidly all impressions but those of the present.
— from The Woodman: A Romance of the Times of Richard III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

As to the popular religion, 426 the Stoics admitted that it was filled with pretended deities, false doctrines, and rank superstition; that its wilderness of fables about the gods was simply contemptible: but that it was well to retain the names of gods consecrated in public opinion, who were merely descriptions of particular incorporations of the one world-god.
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

The troops behaved well, and I am really surprised that our loss was so trifling; but I have remarked that the Afghans fire high.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 3 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir