She won't make any arrangement until she has consulted somebody.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

He then becomes a tremulous and unassuming sneak; he counsels "peace of the soul," the cessation of all hatred, leniency and "love" even towards friend and foe.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He had gone to shoot deer, but as he was returning in the evening after an unsuccessful stalk, he caught a glimpse of a fox disappearing round the corner of an old ruin.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

What times we live in!” Very soon, however, Petrusha sent his exact address from Switzerland for money to be sent him as usual; so he could not be exactly an exile.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Here he approaches, and here again he approaches, and strays all round and about, and untiringly shakes his certain spear.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Her drooping eyelids, which gave her so modest and yet so voluptuous an appearance, the ever-smiling mouth, her splendid teeth, the dazzling whiteness of her complexion, the pleasing air with which she listened to what was being said, her silvery voice, the sweetness and sparkling vivacity of her manner, her lack of conceit, or rather her unconsciousness of the power of her charms—in fine, everything about this masterpiece of nature made me wonder and admire; while she, by chance or vile monetary considerations, was in the power of Baret, who, pale and sickly, thought a good deal more of his stockings than of the treasure marriage had given him—a treasure of which he was all unworthy, since he could not see its beauty nor taste its sweetness.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“OEnothea,” the old hag replied, “this young man here was born under an unlucky star: he can’t dispose of his goods to either boy or girl.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

All other matters are as well as upon so hard conditions with my uncle Thomas we can expect them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Narcisse had preached the superiority of small houses to Amy until she had convinced her.
— from Light-Fingered Gentry by David Graham Phillips

He was no longer merely cross and unamiable; she had caught a glimpse into the secret of a desolate heart, and the sight sobered her youthful spirits.
— from The Fortunes of the Farrells by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Pearce looked for Joan, and upon seeing her called out, “Kells wants you.”
— from The Border Legion by Zane Grey

Then there came into his head the bright idea that if he followed this boy up the hill to an unfrequented spot he could hold him up for a nickel.
— from Tom Slade : Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

He did not trouble them much with his society, but went off to discover when Mr. Drayton was likely to arrive; an unexpected smoothness had characterized his meeting with the girls, for which he felt duly thankful.
— from Mrs. Dorriman: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 by Chetwynd, Henry Wayland, Mrs.

We marry him to a wife exactly like himself, and one day he comes home and informs her that an unlucky speculation has carried away their fortune, and he has resolved upon suicide.
— from How to Become Rich: A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony by William Windsor

Has Nature's garden a more decorative ornament than the Flowering Dogwood, whose spreading flattened branches whiten the woodland borders in May as if an untimely snowstorm had come down upon them, and in autumn paint the landscape with glorious crimson, scarlet, and gold, dulled by comparison only with the clusters of vivid red berries among the foliage?
— from Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan

An officer of prominence under McDowell, then in command of the Potomac Army under Scott, had come home on a furlough and was present.
— from Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Henry Morford

One who has exposed his brethren to imminent danger & reduced them and their families to extreme want by fire & sword, can the evidence, I say, of such a vile wretch, who has forfeited his liege to his King by entering the enemy's service, and unnaturally sold his countrymen, be of any weight in a court of justice?
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

In a wild lurch for it, just as it took another upward swerve, he collided with Fred, sending that youth sprawling face downward over the ground.
— from The Brighton Boys in Transatlantic Flight by James R. Driscoll