Upon more closely examining the place, I surmised that for an indefinite period Bartleby must have ate, dressed, and slept in my office, and that, too without plate, mirror, or bed.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

This admiration, sir, is much o’ the favour Of other your new pranks.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Therefore, either out of commiseration of human imbecility, in policy, or to prevent a far worse inconvenience, for they hold some of them as necessary as meat and drink, and because vigour of youth, the state and temper of most men's bodies do so furiously desire it, they have heretofore in some nations liberally admitted polygamy and stews, a hundred thousand courtesans in Grand Cairo in Egypt, as [5920] Radzivilus observes, are tolerated, besides boys: how many at Fez, Rome, Naples, Florence, Venice, &c., and still in many other provinces and cities of Europe they do as much, because they think young men, churchmen, and servants amongst the rest, can hardly live honest.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The girl looked wistfully at the flowers, and, acting on a sudden impulse, Margaret offered them to her.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

She was fairly good looking, but with a singular innocent manner of freedom about her that made me imagine she had as yet had no chance of a “misfortune.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The fatal purpose thus revealed, the shrieks of the frantic mother reverberated through the palace, as she implored mercy, or execrated the murderers of her child, who alone was resigned to her fate.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Again, it seems to be implanted in us by Nature: as, for instance, in the parent towards the offspring and the offspring towards the parent (not merely in the human species, but likewise in birds and most animals), and in those of the same tribe towards one another, and specially in men of the same nation; for which reason we commend those men who love their fellows: and one may see in the course of travel how close of kin and how friendly man is to man.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Upon more closely examining the place, I surmised that for an indefinite period Bartleby must have ate, dressed, and slept in my office, and that too without plate, mirror, or bed.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

'I knew it would be worthy a dress of honour, and so I made one ready,' he said, smiling.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Now we were taken to see this mighty garden, and shown its methods of culture.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Jean Lillie, our double great-grandmother, the daughter of David Lillie, sometime Deacon of the Wrights, married, first, Alan Stevenson, who died May 26, 1774, “at Santt Kittes of a fiver,” by whom she had Robert Stevenson, born 8th June 1772; and, second, in May or June 1787, Thomas Smith, a widower, and already the father of our grandmother.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

The trout opened and shut its mouth once or twice without saying anything, and then it slewed round and turned its other eye upon him.
— from David Blaize and the Blue Door by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

But this situation is adjusted and Isabel is further made happy by the opportunity to do a service in memory of her friend, Molly Ramsay, whose death had been the tragic incident of the year before.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

I'm fortified up here to stand a siege in my old round tower, like the son of Eremon that I am.
— from Celt and Saxon — Complete by George Meredith

It is, indeed, absurd to insist that our members are moved by Fate when they are set in motion, or innervated, by the "governing principle."
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

Who can look upon the White Tower here, after seeing its model on the Savoy stage, and yet not remember the delicious melodies of the opera?
— from The Tower of London by Arthur Poyser

I will have men posted in the lanes leading to it, and will myself go with you to see that a search is made of every house;
— from Colonel Thorndyke's Secret by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The young Mesuriers were neither fools nor hard of heart; and sometimes, in moments of sympathy, their parents would be revealed to them in sudden lights of pathos and old romance.
— from Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne

His Conscience is very tender and scrupulous in Matters of Ceremony, but it is as steely and tough as Brawn behind his Counter, and can digest any Sin of Gain.
— from An essay in defence of the female sex In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. in a letter to a lady. by Drake, Judith, active 1696-1707