But Mr Verloc knew his business, and remained undisturbed by any sort of æsthetic doubt about his appearance.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Then, summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave-cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

He pretended to refute her arguments, and remained unshaken by all the power of her solicitations, until she had recourse to the most passionate remonstrances of love, and fell at his feet in the posture of a forlorn shepherdess.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

That saw King Clariance and returned unto Brastias, and either smote other so that horse and man went to the earth, and so they lay long astonied, and their horses' knees brast to the hard bone.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

In contrast with the view of society which regards social institutions and the community itself as the mere instruments and tools of the individuals who compose it, is that which conceives society as resting upon biological adaptations, that is to say upon instincts, gregariousness, for example, imitation, or like-mindedness.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

For we are not vexed and mortified with custom-house officers when they levy toll on goods bona fide imported, but only when they seek for contraband articles, and rip up bags and packages: and yet the law allows them to do even this, and sometimes it is injurious to them not to do so.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Thus variously engaged in thought, the travellers passed on silently, for above an hour, a question only being, now and then, asked by Du Pont, concerning the road, or a remark uttered by Annette, respecting objects, seen imperfectly in the twilight.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

But this appears to me to be doubtful, as I well know that the summits of some of the Alps rise up by a long space of not less than 50,000 paces 454 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The plea on which he somewhat confidently relied, and which his client, had he not unfortunately been prevented in some way from attending, would have supported by his evidence, was that such an expression as a 'free hand' could not be limited, fettered, and rendered unmeaning, by any verbiage which might follow it.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Externally the church is almost entirely built in red brick with rich cornices and rather ungainly buttresses and pinnacles of brick; the windows have brick jambs with stone tracery, and on the north side of the choir is a fine lofty campanile, finished at the top with a low, very plain, and octangular capping, and unpierced with openings, except in the belfry-stage.
— from Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy by George Edmund Street

He also associated himself with the Mendicity Society by means of which all the innumerable appeals for aid which came to him from time to time were investigated, sifted, and reported upon before action was taken.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

How he thinks, when he finds time to make up his plots, to work out his characters, even to correct his proofs, are riddles unanswerable by all his friends.
— from The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays, Vol. 1 (of 2) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

Aerial photographs of active volcanoes (Fig. 198 ), showing the results of a succession of outbursts—one obliterating the other—would prove of the greatest value, especially when studied in conjunction with other scientific data, the whole making a record unobtainable by any other means.
— from Airplane Photography by Herbert Eugene Ives

One bum was generally commanded by the captain to go and rustle up bread, another was sent for meat, a third for coffee, a fourth for sugar, a fifth for pepper and salt, etc.
— from An American Hobo in Europe A True Narrative of the Adventures of a Poor American at Home and in the Old Country by Ben Goodkind

Now I live alone, and remember, until by and by my nephew comes here after me.
— from For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss

We turned and turned our sails to catch every wandering puff, until at last we came out of this belt of calm and ran south again with a brisk breeze, the sea all round us being alive with flying fishes.
— from The Adventures of Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle

This self-centred little bird allowed a pebble to pass overhead and remained unconcerned, but, a moment later, feeling a jar beneath his feet, and hearing the tinkle of falling glass, he decided to leave.
— from Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington

A gust of wind passed through the room, blowing to the door with a bang, and it whirled aloft, round us, broken and quivering pieces of black tinder.
— from To-morrow? by Victoria Cross