Mr. Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife, so constantly occupied either in his business in town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always cheerful—Mr. Weston need not spend a single evening in the year alone if he did not like it.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

John broke the rather awkward silence by saying with a slight effort: “I told you, didn’t I, that Mr. Inglethorp has returned?” Poirot bent his head.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

At Brisbane you will be able to buy fine pineapples for a penny each, and that alone should endear it to your heart.
— from Peeps At Many Lands: Australia by Frank Fox

And see," here I handed her a sealed envelope, "in this you will find notes to the amount of four thousand francs."
— from Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten by Marie Corelli

But Henry replied with earnest grace: “That I passed your pickets in disguise is true; but——” “Peace!” interrupted the president; “the usages of war are stern enough in themselves; you need not aid them in your own condemnation.”
— from The Spy: Condensed for use in schools by James Fenimore Cooper

Who could have foreseen that it would be implanted so naturally and so easily in the young souls of our soldiers?
— from In the Field (1914-1915): The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry by Marcel Dupont

It hung together with her worship of life, with her belief, as she expressed it to you, all those years ago, that life must be begun many times anew .
— from Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Vernon Lee

Both he and the mutessarif thought an ascent so early in the year was impossible; that we ought not to think of such a thing until two months later.
— from Across Asia on a Bicycle The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking by Thomas Gaskell Allen

But a significant event in the year 1517 served to make clear a wide discrepancy between what he was teaching and what the Church taught.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

This change, which first became apparent to a small extent in the young two days after birth, is very conspicuous at this stage.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour