After the paper came a debate, and in this debate Mr. Bast also figured, appearing now as a bright spot in civilisation, now as a dark spot, according to the temperament of the speaker.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

And recollection is most commonly a process of recovering that which has been already forgotten through time and inattention.
— from Phaedo by Plato

After awhile, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice!
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

This question of how many invitations may safely be sent out is one which each hostess must answer for herself, since beyond a few obvious generalities no one can very well advise her.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

So you write notes (since it is to be a formal dinner), and—they all accept!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

But the law of those days was still in a somewhat primitive state, and it will easily be imagined that a form of action which goes back as far as that was not founded on any very delicate discriminations.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

When the Spaniards first touched this Island, this Cacic , who was thoroughly acquainted with them, did avoid and shun them as much as in him lay, and defended himself by force of Arms, wherever he met with them, but at length being taken he was burnt alive, for flying from so unjust and cruel a Nation, and endeavuoring to secure his Life against them, who only thirsted after the blood of himself and his own People.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

Friday had not been long gone when he came running back, and flew over my outer wall or fence, like one that felt not the ground or the steps he set his foot on; and before I had time to speak to him he cries out to me, “O master!
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

further energetically urged that the Purohita , or domestic chaplain, should be a follower of the Atharva-veda .
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Without thinking, I felt that they went to slay little birds, and for them I entertained a good-natured contempt.
— from Pony Tracks by Frederic Remington

It had seemed to her that there would be a fine rôle to play in presenting this young potentate, so to speak, to the people about; but as she reflected, with a sort of disgust, people in that position have a way of knowing each other, and are always drifting across each other in that wonderful thing called society, which is such a mystery to those that are out of it.
— from Lady William by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Germany has not yet changed her Chancellor, though he is being bitterly attacked for his "silly ideas of humanity"--and her rulers have certainly shown no change of heart.
— from Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

He proceeded thence to Beaufort, a frontier town of South Carolina, situated on Port Royal Island, at the mouth of the Coosawatchie river, having an excellent harbor.
— from Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Founder of the Colony of Georgia, in North America. by Thaddeus Mason Harris

As I write I see the Snowy Range through the blue mist, beautiful and far off, I plainly see the patches of snow.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Tad charged by a ferocious she-bear.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in Louisiana; or, Following the Game Trails in the Canebrake by Frank Gee Patchin

I have recounted my entry because of this trait in my character that was developed thereby, but if it were to describe that life in all its details I should have nothing to relate beyond a few childish naughtinesses, followed by penitence and impositions, not even worth putting into M. Bouilly's Jeunes Écoliers.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821 by Alexandre Dumas

The lesser ship had as ill success, though she was as hopfull as y e other for y e marchants profite; for they had fild her with goodly cor-fish taken upon y e banke, as full as she could swime; and besids she had some 800 li .
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

11, it is described how the ungodly, who likewise walk in darkness, endeavour to light up their darkness by a fire which they have kindled, but do so to their own destruction.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg