There wasn’t a year that passed that didn’t bring some new human world into the Brotherhood, and many of these had developed from that cultural explosion during the First Millennium known as the Exodus, where small groups of colonists in inadequate ships set out for unannounced goals to homestead new worlds for man.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

But as most of them had, hanging up among their stock, an officer’s coat or two, epaulettes and all, I was rendered timid by the costly nature of their dealings, and walked about for a long time without offering my merchandise to anyone.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He had a beautiful old house in Queen Anne Street, and being a man of taste he had furnished it admirably.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

any specific proposal, or a Draft of a Bill in extenso , when any member thought himself capable of preparing one such as ought to pass; and the House would doubtless refer every such draft to the commission, if only as materials, and for the benefit of the suggestions it might contain, as they would, in like manner, refer every amendment or objection which might be proposed in writing by any member of the House after a measure had left the commissioners' hands.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Then he would suddenly turn round and look ahead of him, his mouth open and his eyes blinking in the sunlight, and getting away from the wall by a movement of the hips, he started off once more.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

‘It isn’t very likely there would be any mice on the horse’s back.’
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

This ghost makes a practice of appearing when any mishap is about to befall a member of the house of Stradling—the direct line of which is, however, extinct, a fact not very well apprehended among the neighbouring peasantry.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

The case of course is clearest where there is a great difference, as in the Friendships of boys: for suppose that of two boyish friends the one still continues a boy in mind and the other becomes a man of the highest character, how can they be friends?
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

As George Sime, information guy for the Highway Department and for CD, said, “That day anyone would have been proud to be a member of the Highway Department.”
— from The Night the Mountain Fell: The Story of the Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake by Edmund Christopherson

In an interval of ten hours I saw in our neighbourhood three families of them, who in turn remained near us, but at most only three hours, when they moved on further.
— from Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand by Ármin Vámbéry

Consequently it becomes a matter of the highest necessity that our whole diplomatic machinery be in a condition to afford the greatest utility.
— from Uncle Sam Abroad by Jacob Elon Conner

The connection involved the presentation of each newly elected Master to the Prior of St. Bartholomew's, or, if he refused institution, to the Bishop of London; the assent of the prior and canons being, however, required before any one could become a member of the Hospital Society.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less by George Worley

"It won't be a mite of trouble," he declared.
— from Shavings: A Novel by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Now, those poor things that walks down there” (intimating, by a motion of the head, a thoroughfare frequented by girls of the town), “they’re often customers, but not near so good as they was ten year ago; no, indeed, nor six or eight year.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

But being an old man at the time, he left his successor to complete it by adding most of the hieroglyphics.
— from Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

James G. Blaine, a member of this House, bearing date the 27th of April, A. D. 1866, and which was read in this House the 30th day of April, A. D. 1866, in so far as such statements impute to the Hon.
— from Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell

That the estates so mentioned did not indeed yield so much to the grantees as they were valued at, because as most of them had abused his Majesty on the real value of their estates, so their agents had imposed upon them, and had either sold or let the greatest part of these lands at an undervalue; but that after all deductions and allowances there yet remained £1,699,343: 14s.
— from William the Third by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill