Reins and whip and coachman and guard, however, in combination, had read that article of war which forbade a purpose otherwise strongly in favour of the argument, that some brute animals are endued with Reason; and the team had capitulated and returned to their duty.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Why that, lambkin, will be pretty!—Then, said the wicked one, you'll have all the talk to yourself!—Then how will the tongue of the pretty lambkin bleat out innocence, and virtue, and honesty, till the whole trial be at an end!—You're a wicked woman, that's certain, said I; and if you thought any thing of another world, could not talk thus.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

About midnight, my companion's bowels being disordered, he got up, in order to go backward, but in his return, mistaking one door for another, entered Weazel's chamber, and without any hesitation went to bed to his wife, who was fast asleep, the captain being at another end of the room groping for some empty vessel, in lieu of his own chamberpot, which was leaky: as he did not perceive Strap coming in, he went towards his own bed, after having found a c
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

After a rapid review of how he had been aided and encouraged in starting the revolution against the Spaniards by Admiral Dewey, and then given the cold shoulder by the army when it came, Aguinaldo’s manifesto says: It was also taken for granted that the American forces would necessarily sympathize with the revolution which they had managed to encourage, and which had saved them much blood and great hardships; and, above all, we entertained absolute confidence in the history and traditions of a people which fought for its independence and for the abolition of slavery, and which posed as the champion and liberator of oppressed peoples .
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Mr. Hattersley, you know, is the son of a rich banker, and as Esther and I have no fortunes, and Walter very little, our dear mamma is very anxious to see us all well married, that is, united to rich partners.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The ceremony being at an end, we left the temple."
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

The Body as an Empire.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There is a duck in the wether’s belly, and an egg in the belly of the duck, and it is in the egg that my soul is.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

There is a squeaking sound from the invalid bell and an elderly man in a tanned sheepskin and high felt over-boots walks into the shop.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She took up the paper bag again, and explored it with an eager hand, while she stared absently at Cornelia.
— from The Coast of Bohemia by William Dean Howells

9 In man, sympathetic resentment begins at an early age.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

" After the pianist had played, Swann felt and shewed more interest in him than in any of the other guests, for the following reason: The year before, at an evening party, he had heard a piece of music played on the piano and violin.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

If you find out the owners, I hope you will restore it to them; but, at all events, it’s Frenchmen’s money, and a Frenchman has more right to it than I have.”
— from From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure by William Henry Giles Kingston

"I'll tell you; when they leave their clothes on the bank and go in swimming I will steal up and eat what is left in the bag, and anything else I find in their pockets."
— from Billy Whiskers: The Autobiography of a Goat by Frances Trego Montgomery

If the tenement selected for this honour could not be ancient and em- browned, it should at least have been detached.
— from A Little Tour in France by Henry James

Now I think you will be able to see that in the next year after this change, May-day was kept eleven days earlier in the Sun's year than the year before; and it has been at an earlier season ever since, and therefore in colder weather.
— from Miscellanea by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

Their means were soon exhausted, when the son married, and commenced business as an engraver.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing