He has now and then been a sad flirt, and cared very little for the havoc he might be making in young ladies' affections.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Adam was by nature reserved in all matters of feeling, and Seth felt a certain timidity towards his more practical brother.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

No: a new influence began to act upon my life, and sadness, for a certain space, was held at bay.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

My father had a small factory at Coventry, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

For them, the gifts given at sagali form a class in themselves and so do the love gifts.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Eirik gave hopes very early that he would become an able man, was handsome in countenance, and stout and strong for a child; but the earl did not pay much attention to him.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The palace of Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Julian raises the question whether fables and myths are suitable for a Cynic discourse.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

It presupposes and starts from a clear conception of the end and the wish for it as conceived, and it proceeds by a deduction which is dehberation writ large.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Coffee is shipped to New York [Pg 331] either on a consignment basis and sold for a commission, or it may have been bought in the shipping port and be already the property of an importer.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Her writers, her artists, like those of Chicago, Cleveland, and San Francisco, are coming to New York.
— from A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

All of a sudden, from a clump of tall grass near us, up sprung an antelope and a pair of beautiful fawns.
— from The Nursery, No. 106, October, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various

A complete change came over the Norwegian, who took a step forward and clapped his hands heavily upon Captain Marsham’s shoulders.
— from Steve Young by George Manville Fenn

St. Ambrose felt it his duty to speak forth in the name of the Church against such fury and cruelty; and when Theodosius presented himself at the church door to come to the Holy Communion, Ambrose met him there, and turned him back as a blood-stained sinner unfit to partake of the heavenly feast, and bidding him not add sacrilege to murder.
— from Young Folks' History of Rome by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Benton and Simms are small fish and can be landed any time we want.
— from Atom Mystery [Young Atom Detective] by Charles Ira Coombs

He had no showy vices and, so far as could be ascertained, not many others.
— from The Criminal & the Community by James Devon

"I have sent a carriage ahead of us containing four policemen, and they are secretly following another carriage.
— from The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

However, he was possessed of a good education and marked enterprise and subsequently secured a position as shipping clerk and bookkeeper in a silk factory at College Point, Long Island.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

He kissed her shoulder lace, and she flushed and caught his arm, then laughed, disconcerted by her own shyness.
— from The Business of Life by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers