— She felt the engagement to be a source of repentance and misery to each : she dissolved it .—This letter reached me on the very morning of my poor aunt's death.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

But though everything seemed neat and comfortable, she was not able to gratify him by any sigh of repentance, and rather looked with wonder at her friend that she could have so cheerful an air with such a companion.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Great Wall is never mentioned, though we have shown reason for believing that it was in his mind when one passage of his book was dictated.[10] The use of Tea, though he travelled through the Tea districts of Fo-kien, is never mentioned;[11] the compressed feet of the women and the employment of the fishing cormorant (both mentioned by Friar Odoric, the contemporary of his later years), artificial egg-hatching, printing of books (though the notice of this art seems positively challenged in his account of paper-money), besides a score of remarkable arts and customs which one would have expected to recur to his memory, are never alluded to.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

“Why out of the question? Why do you say it’s out of the question?” “Because it’ll be going God knows where, by all sorts of roads and to all sorts of hotels.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I have indeed heard of heedless, inconsiderate Writers, that without any Malice have sacrificed the Reputation of their Friends and Acquaintance to a certain Levity of Temper, and a silly Ambition of distinguishing themselves by a Spirit of Raillery and Satyr:
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

She breathed a sigh of relief, and sitting on the plush couch, she slowly and carefully pulled off her elastic-sided boots and s
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

A hospital also was put up for his patients and these in time became a source of revenue, as people from a distance came to the oculist for treatment and paid liberally.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

And thou, Posthumus, That didst set up my disobedience 'gainst the King My father, and make me put into contempt the suits Of princely fellows, shalt hereafter find It is no act of common passage but A strain of rareness; and I grieve myself To think, when thou shalt be disedg'd by her That now thou tirest on, how thy memory Will then be pang'd by me.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

They were now a miserable trio, confined within doors by a series of rain and snow, with nothing to do and no variety to hope for.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The others have to give up all individuality and become, so to speak, a herd, and, through boundless submission, will by a series of regenerations attain primæval innocence, something like the Garden of Eden.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then Commencement is over and college life is past, and there is nothing left in life but to become a senator or run a darned old trust.
— from At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch

When however the service—though whose purposes the affair could be supposed to serve except those of Mr Cairns himself, would have been a curious question—was over, he did breathe a sigh of relief; and when he stepped out into the sun and wind which had been shining and blowing all the time of the dreary ceremony, he wondered whether the larks might not have had the best of it in the God praising that had been going on for two slow paced hours.
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

Dick breathed a sigh of relief as the gloomy house in the midst of the fir trees was left behind, and he gave vent to an audible exclamation of satisfaction when he was in the train and speeding away from Dankville, for even the name of the place seemed to have an unhappy influence over him.
— from Dick Hamilton's Fortune; Or, The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son by Howard Roger Garis

And thou Posthumus, That didd'st set vp my disobedience 'gainst the King My Father, and makes me put into contempt the suites Of Princely Fellowes, shalt heereafter finde It is no acte of common passage, but A straine of Rarenesse: and I greeue my selfe, To thinke, when thou shalt be disedg'd by her, That now thou tyrest on, how thy memory Will then be pang'd by me.
— from Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

" In the hall they were surrounded by a squad of reporters, and three photographers took flashlight pictures.
— from One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York by Louis Tracy

Knapsack One boy takes another by the feet, one foot over each shoulder, with his head downwards and his face to his back, and sets off running as fast as he can.
— from The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc. by Alice Bertha Gomme

The hair, combed up, and with an inclination backwards from the forehead, was surmounted by a strata of ribbon and lace, sometimes intermingled with feathers, and a kerchief or scarf of some very light material was permitted to hang down to the waist, or below it.
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

Commerce, to continue undisturbed and secure, must be, as it was intended to be, a source of reciprocal amity between nations, and an interchange of productions to promote the industry, the wealth, and the happiness of mankind."
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

Twinkleheels breathed a sigh of relief; and he made not the slightest trouble for the blacksmith, but waited patiently while his little shoes were being hammered into shape.
— from The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels by Arthur Scott Bailey